I take all my duck meat at the end of the season, mix it with pork and make the pepperoni. Best way to use it/get rid of it IMO. Cooking good duck takes too much work... I will use up older locker beef in it too when I have it.
Got it with the rub already on from Gartner's. Cooked it on 375 for 15 minutes so it would be nice and crunchy on the skin. Then, smoked it for 2 hours. Then finished it on high for 10 minutes. Turned out perfect. My girlfriend was skeptical about the traeger at first. Now she's hooked. Got steaks on right now.
Donkiez, I've noticed there's already a little bit of a build up on the inside of the lid. How do you clean it, or should I just forget about it?
I found foil pans that fit between the grill grate and the rest below. They were like $3 at costco for 50 of them. I use 2 at a time and change them out when they look nasty. Every few times. I only foiled the whole inside when cooking 6 chickens for a friend's dinner party. Those things were greasy as hell. In fact, pretty much the only time grease made it to the bucket. I do have the bucket wrapped in foil tho.
Good find DC. Im going to check them out. Ive been meaning to start collecting some smoked beef, chicken and pork fat for other cooking projects anyway.
Yeah, it is pretty good. My cousin did 80 lbs of pepperoni over the last couple days... Had some Elk grind and goose meat that needed done. Having a powered meat grinder, sausage stuffer and Traeger is a necessity for any hunter IMO.
You can layer it as well, then all you have to do is pull off the grill, and take the outer layer off. I replace mine depending on what I will be/have been cooking. If I have just been doing lots of burgers, I'll leave it. If I am about to do some Ribs or a roast, I'll take a layer off as to not hurt what I am cooking.
Everything I make on this thing turns out great. Smoking some 'pigs n a blanket' and baked beans w/ bacon right now. Then doing enough chicken wings and salmon to last me the week, later on tonight. Thinking about a prime rib from Cash & Carry next weekend. What have you guys been getting into lately?
FWIW, Traeger has a facebook page with lots of recipes. Their WWW site isn't the greatest, but they do have a lot of recipes, too. Also, you can sign up for their email newsletter and they'll send you a bunch of recipes once a week. http://links.traegergrills.mkt5779....=NjMwMjU5MTk1NTMS1&j=NDIzMTkyMDcwS0&mt=1&rt=0
I'm doing prime rib this weekend. Any tips? I've never done prime rib before and its a spendy piece of meat. Wanna get this right.
