Folks were out of town to visit the grandkids so the GF and I ended up going down to our best friends' place for christmas eve / christmas. he's got a new masterbuilt electric smoker and wanted to put it through it's paces so we did just that. In a 24hr span we smoked:
• 19lb Turkey
• 9lbs of Chicken Thighs
• 2 Slabs Baby Back Ribs
• 5lbs of Italian Sausage
• 4lbs of Sirloin Steak
Thing is super convenient and produced a great volume of decent smoke. Seemed a little acrid to me and lacked some of the overall quality of that of a real smoker.. but it wasn't bad. Rebound times from opening the doors were long as well. That said, it served it's purpose rather well all things considered. The built in meat probe crapped out christmas morning, suddenly going from registering 135 degree breast temps to 205 degrees... odd.
Food Spread included:
• Smoked Turkey
• Baby Back Ribs (cheated and used Rendezvous Rub and Stubbs sauce)
• Pinned and smoked chicken thighs
• Smoked the sirloin for a batch of alien mac & cheese
• Smoked the Italian Sausage with Rendezvous Rub. Was fantastic when paired with pretzel chips and Cabot 3yr aged Vermont Cheddar.
• Newlyweds had a TON of ripe Harry & David pears that went into a spinach, pear, toasted pecan, scallion and blue cheese crumble salad.
• usual mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, etc.
Massive feast that came together famously. Great 2 days of cooking, eating, drinking, and just good times. Really is enjoyable when you get 4 people together who enjoy cooking and put them in a big kitchen with time to burn. Girls tag teamed some dishes, we handled others. Awesome.