...as you may know, I've been trying to cook a smoked pork, Lu'au style that I like. I keep getting closer, but so far not what I want. But recently I got another dose of knowledge.
I friend from long ago just had a wedding Lu'au reception.
the pork was the yum, ....smoky, tender, flaky, tasty, moist
recently I read that BBQ was created to deal with a real problem, poor dental hygene, leading to lack of teeth, so the meat had to fall off the bone...and poor cuts of meat, because you were poor and had to eat the entire pig, so the long process to make it tender...
my friend, he cooked the pork the day before, and the day of Lu'au put the pork, wrapped in banannananna leaves, in a home made smoker. I believe he got instructions from Alton Brown.
The best part. The smoker was a big cardboard box.. The pork was on a rack in the box. He put a hot plate w/ applewood chips in a pan in the box, had a small fan in the box, and every now and then would open the box for oxygen.
What is even funnier, a co-worker the other day explained how she can make campfire baked brownies in a card-board box.
Cardboard, evidently the essential outdoor cooking tool.
Posted by joncim at October 29, 2006 09:34 PM