PBC Smoked chicken made into enchiladas. Very good!
Made into enchiladas and on the weber about finished up...
And plated.....They were delicious! :thumb::becky:
PBC Smoked chicken made into enchiladas. Very good!
Made into enchiladas and on the weber about finished up...
And plated.....They were delicious! :thumb::becky:
a quick question for all of you pbc owners out there. i received my pbc on tuesday of last week, and had my first cook on thursday. ended up doing a whole chicken cut into halves, and i also hung a pound of hickory smoked bacon from the local butcher to "season" the inside. the chicken was extremely juicy and the flavoring was good, then i halved 4 homegrown green peppers and stuffed it was sausage and used the grill grate to cook those... and then there was this weird aftertaste. like it was nauseating and even after brushing my teeth, it wouldnt go away. my fiance said it kind of reminded her of a metallic/paintlike taste.
i was just wondering if that was a one time/first time use thing and now that it has been cooked on and "seasoned" it shouldnt happen anymore or do you think it will continue to happen??? i used kbb and did everything the manual said to do using the chimney method (fill basket up level, remove 40 briguettes, light wait 13-15 minutes and pour coals in and begin cook immediately)
a quick question for all of you pbc owners out there. i received my pbc on tuesday of last week, and had my first cook on thursday. ended up doing a whole chicken cut into halves, and i also hung a pound of hickory smoked bacon from the local butcher to "season" the inside. the chicken was extremely juicy and the flavoring was good, then i halved 4 homegrown green peppers and stuffed it was sausage and used the grill grate to cook those... and then there was this weird aftertaste. like it was nauseating and even after brushing my teeth, it wouldnt go away. my fiance said it kind of reminded her of a metallic/paintlike taste.
i was just wondering if that was a one time/first time use thing and now that it has been cooked on and "seasoned" it shouldnt happen anymore or do you think it will continue to happen??? i used kbb and did everything the manual said to do using the chimney method (fill basket up level, remove 40 briguettes, light wait 13-15 minutes and pour coals in and begin cook immediately)
This isn't a PBC thing it's a bad fire set up thing. Ron is the only person that does the best fire setup in a pbc.
What i call "mish mash" minion is what gave you the problem. You want a small hot fire....NOT an all over smoldering fire. Some that do the mish mash won't have as much problem if they wait a while before putting on meat.
Do what Ron does and...fill up your basket, remove a hole in the middle and use that in your chimney. Put grayed coals back in that middle spot. Small hot fire is a complete combustion in that spot, the outlying coals will get a chance to heat up and combust more easily as it burns.
Sorry Keith but I've setup the coals BOTH ways (the way Ron describes and what you are calling mish mash) and there's no difference in the how the coals end up burning or the flavor you get on the food.
I will agree that if the stuffed peppers were a completely new cook he needed to wait 15-20 minutes after dumping in hot coals for the PBC to settle in to its cook temperature before putting food on. But that's any cooker....
You can bury some small apple chunks or other fruit wood around the perimeter too...it'll slowly catch on.thank you Fwismoker, i will definately try this tonight! :thumb:
Andrew....mish mash is BAD ......BUT how long someone waits before cooking depends on if it's noticeable.
Small hot fire method is what you want for the best taste and it's not even debatable. The science of burning coals doesn't change in a PBC, the better the fire the better the taste.
He was getting what sounds like the typical bad charcoal creosote taste. (if the peppers were on later then it's something else)
I know the PBC crew thinks Noah is all knowing but his directions for spreading the coals around is not good advice. It might work if people wait for the fire to establish some but you most definitely can improve flavor doing it different.
If the peppers were put in after the fire was established then it was something else but i still stand by starting the cooker better. He could have had some bad peppers.