Solar BBQ – How to Cook Barbecue without Charcoal, Gas, Pellets or Electricity

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I Love Barbecue. At home, at a campground, at a picnic or anywhere you can enjoy the outdoors and have well-prepared BBQ food. The problem is the moment you leave your backyard so you can enjoy the great outdoors you have to start hauling grills, charcoal, gas cylinders or even a generator so you can cook anything.

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Sous Vide Asian Pulled Pork

asian pulled pork
asian pulled pork

Sous Vide Asian Pulled Pork

This recipe is one of my Sous Vide BBQ recipes that uses the ChefSteps Joule Circulator. The Joule is the smallest circulator out there but is also one of the most powerful due to its 1,100-watt heating element It also has a superior and easy to use app.
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CourseMain Course
CuisineAsian
Keywordasian pulled pork, pulled pork, sous vide, sous vide bbq
Prep Time1 hour
Cook Time1 day
Total Time1 day 1 hour
Servings8
Calories690kcal
AuthorWiley

Ingredients

Marinade

Mayo for Sandwich

Instructions

  • This recipe is one of my Sous Vide BBQ recipe using the ChefSteps Joule Circulator. The Joule is the smallest circulator out there but is also one of the most powerful due to its 1,100-watt heating element Also it’s superior and easy to use app.
  • Now we make the marinade. 1/4 cup of Soy Sauce.
  • 3 Tablespoons of Go Chu Jang.
  • 3 Tablespoons of Hoisen Sauce.
  • 3 Tablespoons of Ketchup.
  • 3 Tablespoons of Rice Vinegar.
  • 2 Tablespoons of Clover Honey
  • 2 Tablespoons of Sesame Oil.
  • 2 Teaspoons of Chinese 5 Spice Powder.
  • 2 inch Piece of Fresh Ginger, Peeled and Grated.
  • Mix it all together.

Prepare Pork Shoulder

  • Here is our 8 pound pork shoulder with blade bone, but it is to big for my vacuum bags so I have to cut it into two pieces. The other advantage of cutting the pork shoulder in half is there is more surface area for the marinate.
  • Now it is time to add the cooking marinate. I split the marinate in half and each bag took just short of a ½ cup. Make sure the lip is clean so the bag can seal.
  • Now using vacuum sealer seal each bag removing all air.
  • Now with both bags properly vacuum sealed with the marinate it is time to take them to the sous vide bath. Our setup is a 26 quart container and the joule immersion circulator.
  • Now it is time to program the cook. I have to admit the Joule app makes this part really easy. First, you select under pork the Simple, Tasty Pulled Pork Shoulder Recipe.
  • Now you select a temperature and they even give you there favorite which is what I also picked of 154F.
  • The time is set at 24 hours.
  • After selecting the time the Joule starts preheating the water. Because the joule has a 1,100 watt heating element it does not take long for it to reach temperature.
  • When it hits 154F it starts keeping track of the the cooking time and even tells you when it is going to be done. As you can see it is telling me this cook will be done at 12:11 pm tomorrow.
  • When the cook is done the joule app nicely lets you know.
  • Now remove from bags and pat dry. You want the outside to be as dry as possible before putting into the smoker grill.
  • Pre-heat smoker or grill setup for indirect cooking to 225F . Leave pork shoulders in foil pan for they are already subject to falling a part after the 24 hour sous vide cook. Insert meat thermometer probe into the roast that does not have the blade none.
  • Cook pork shoulders till internal temperature of 160F then pull. Now the true test to see if the blade bone will pull out clean and easy. If it does then you know it is done.
  • So here I have my bear claws and I start breaking this pork shoulder down into smaller pieces. The easiest why that I know is just keep splitting the pieces apart and to just keep moving from piece to piece. I really do not like to over shred the pork so I shred till the pieces are bite site.
  • Pour some of the liquid that was in the cooking bag into the foil pan to mix in with the pork.
  • So let make an Asian shredded pork sandwich. The first step put some pork on one side of the roll. Stack pork as high as you can. Now add some homemade Asian cole slaw. There will be a link to that video at then of this one. To finish it off and to give it that extra Asian flavor, on the top roll add some Sriracha Mayo Dressing.

Video

Nutrition

Calories: 690kcal

How To Make Perfect Spare Ribs Using The 3-2-1 Method On A Pellet Grill

Spare Ribs 3-2-1 Method on the GMG Daniel Boone Grill

We will be doing this cook on the Daniel Boone Grill from Green Mountain Grills. We start with a large spare rib. There is actually two and I bought them at our local market for $13 a piece.
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CourseMain Course
CuisineAmerican
Keyword3-2-1 method, daniel boone, gmg, spare ribs
Prep Time45 minutes
Cook Time6 hours
Total Time6 hours 45 minutes
Servings4
Calories669kcal
AuthorWiley

Instructions

  • We will be doing this cook on the Daniel Boone Grill from Green Mountain Grills. We start with a large spare rib. There is actually two and I bought them at our local market for $13 a piece.
  • First step is we need to square up the ribs by doing a St. Louis cut. First I find the end of the ribs and make a shallow cut. Using the knife you keep making deeper cuts till you cut all the way through. What you want is as close to a rectangle as possible with both sides parallel with each other. Now do not throw away and of the extra meat. That meat makes fantastic rib meat tacos or pork shepherd’s pie.
  • Now with everything squared up you can now trim the flap meat that sits on top. These ribs had the membrane already removed but if the membrane is present it needs to be removed.
  • Repeat the same procedure on the second rack of ribs and then put both racks into a full-size foil pan.
  • Now it is time for the rub. On this cook, I am using the Everything Rub for Loot N Booty. It is a great pork rub but like they say it is good on everything, On these ribs, you need to use a lot of rub and you need to cover every inch. One reason why I use a foil pan is first I do not want to make a mess but second I do not waste any rub.
  • In a preheated grill set at 225F put ribs directly on the grate.
  • Now cook for 3 hours.
  • Remove ribs and place in to the same full size foil pan from before. I use a foil pan so I can put the sauce on right away and do have to worry about foil wrap messing up my sauce. The glazing sauce we are using is Southwest Sweet Heat BBQ sauce. Apply sauce to the top side of the ribs. I usually put two coats but just on top. Leaving one side dry make is a lot easier to handle the ribs and with two coats you have plenty of sauce and glaze.
  • Now this part is very important. You need to use a new lid. You then put the lid on and make sure that it Is completely sealed. The pan has to be airtight. By being airtight the ribs will not dry out and even more important the sauce will not burn.
  • Now it is back to the 225F grill to cook for 2 more hours.
  • Then remove lid and let ribs sit uncovered but still in pan for 1 more hour. Check at 30 minutes to make sure the sauce does not burn. After the final hour pull ribs for grill.
  • So this is how they should look. You want that dark mahogany color and the glaze should firm and not runny. When you cut the ribs the meat should stay together and the cuts should look very clean. No mushy ribs. As you can see as I cut the ribs they cut real clean and have a great smoke ring. Also the glaze is staying on the ribs and not getting all over the cutting board.
  • As you can see the ribs are firm, have a clean cut and have a great smoke ring. Also the glaze is staying on the ribs and not getting all over the cutting board. This method will give you perfect ribs every time.

Video

Nutrition

Calories: 669kcal