Thursday, July 26, 2012

Smoking in the Oven Part 2

I decided to do this in two parts to keep each one shorter.

When we last met, we were waiting 4 hours for the ribs to smoke in the 175f oven.

After 4 hours, the ribs should look like this. Because this was done in a 'smoker' that didn't allow the smoke out, it kept the ribs moister as well.

Transfer the ribs to a baking sheet.

 
Baste the ribs in sauce. No, I won't give you the recipe for the sauce.
Move the rack up in the oven.

Place the ribs back in the oven, under a 500f broiler this time. Baste the ribs with sauce every 5 mins or so, turning once over 20 - 25 mins. 

 Ribs!!!
Eat!!

PART ONE

Smoking in the Oven

If you're like me, you like smoked foods. Not chemical flavouring, but REAL smoke. And, if you even more like me, you don't have any place to do it. But fear not, you do have a place where you can control temperature to the degree that you need for smoking. Your home oven. Now, this isn't traditional smoking where you use a lot of smoke chips and create a lot of smoke to bathe the meat in. There is very little actual smoke produced during this, but since it's all captured, you don't lose much smoke.


What you need:
- Dutch oven
- Pan that fits tight in the bottom of the dutch oven
- Screen that fits over the pan
- Smoke chips (small handful, you don't need a lot)
- Brulee torch (possibly)
- MEAT!

 Heat the dutch oven over medium heat.


Take it off the heat after its almost hot, about 5 minutes on medium heat.
Add the wood chips and spread them out, use a spoon as the pan will still be hot.
If you wish, you can use the brulee torch to start some of the chips on fire. This step is not necessary, so if you don't have a torch, don't worry.

 Put the pan in the bottom of the dutch dven. This will catch any drippings from the meat, protecting the wood from getting wet.

Add MEAT!
Make sure there is room around it for the smoke to flow. This is probably just a little too much meat.

 Put it back on medium heat until you can see a little bit of smoke coming up from around the drip pan. If you don't see any after about 5 minutes, increase the heat a little bit.
You don't want it really smoking, just a gentle smoke.

Put it in the oven preheated to 175f. for 3 or 4 hours.

PART TWO



Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Street Pizza!

So, I was wandering around downtown yesterday and I came across this: a wood burning pizza oven on the sidewalk. I love a good pizza, and there is nothing better than pizza cooked in a real wood burning oven. Unfortunately they were packing up when I came by. so I didn't get a chance to have any, but next Tuesday, I'll be there!




You can find this oven at King and Spadina every Tuesday from what I understand.
More info at www.pizza700.ca
So, today was the day that Pat Tabler and Buck Martinez took to the sky high above the Rogers Centre to raise money for charity. Here's a few (bad) shots that I got from my window. I'm pretty certain based on timing that this is them. Still, not bad from over 2000' with only a 200mm lens.







Friday, July 6, 2012

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