Went back to the original timing today (3-1-1) with the new smoker temperature & wrapping tweaks. Definitely getting closer to what I am looking for.

For BBQ geeks: Made 5 racks. 3 on middle grid. 2 on grid below middle. Smoker @ 235. Ribs bone down for 3 hours. Sprayed with house mop @ 1 1/2 hours & rotated grids. Double foil wrapped dry with meat down & rotated grids for 1 hour. Unwrapped, placed bone down back in smoker, rotated grids & finished for 1 hour.

Closer but will try adding the moisture back to the wrap on next round.

WOW – still slightly recovering from our biggest weekend evah! Much thanks to all the local & visiting BBQ lovers for keeping us very very busy.

Dr. Tim’s Friday Grand Gorge, Lynne from Two Stones Realty bringing clients in for lunch, the Brisket Cheesesteak special, a steady stream of lunch folks, the double Grand Gor…ge going to a b’day party (yep – one person order TWO Gorges), Mr. Mathis getting a deal on his 5″ sub by bringing can goods for the Roxbury Food Bank (you can get that deal too!), the folks staying at the Roxbury Motel, Mark & Shiela (Mark’s pics are below), Alexander (sorry we couldn’t visit), the Harley riders who promise to bring many many hogs to the Hut (& they were not talkin’ about pork), more great lunch folks on Sunday, Tim solo (hope Maggie feels better), one bunny sketch from the RAG Sunday movie, Tom & crew with 2nd visit in a week & closing out the weekend with the Oggs from Woodstock who came for 2 racks o’ ribs based only on word of mouth.

Looking forward to the coming week and Easter weekend. Yes – we will be open on Easter.

After a long day of setting the Hut up and getting the prep kitchen in order, we decided to reward ourselves and Tim & Maggie (who dropped by to help) with a bit of dinner. As we had already brought Hecubus (the older barrel smoker/grill) down to the shed, we decided to make dinner at the Hut. What was the first thing we made in the Hut?

Burgers. We had ground beef thawed and besides we can’t sell any food yet so we kept it simple…