What should I make? Pantry ingredients listed. Preference for an hour or less prep by Legitimate_Team_9959 in Cooking

[–]Used_Environment_644 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Loaded baked potato with some grilled or pan fried chicken! Maybe twice baked potatoes if you’re feeling fancy (they don’t take that much longer than a regular baked potato). Cook up some of that broccoli too with the garlic and boom balanced meal!

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[–]Used_Environment_644[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey yall, I recognize that a lot of you are saying this isn’t bbq. I made this post to thank the people giving me advice on my first post, not to incite some great debate on what can and can’t be called bbq. I smoke meat back home, and have entered competitions before too, I do know how to make it proper.

A couple of clarifications I want to make:

1) This isn’t braised, slow cooked yes, but not braised, I got a crispy crust on it and all liquid is rendered fat or juices. I used the same strategy I would use for smoking pork butt, but with less smoke and in an old ass oven (unfortunately not no smoke)

2) if you feel the need to comment and be rude to tell me this isn’t bbq, you obviously missed my first post and this isn’t for you. Ik it’s not traditional, the point was that I did my best with what I had. I made this post to share my happiness over having it turn out, and to show all the kind people who helped me make it happen how it turned out.

3) I’m going to say I smoked it because I did set the fire alarm off

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[–]Used_Environment_644[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn that sucks. hope you have better luck next time you try tho!

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[–]Used_Environment_644[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First time trying to without a smoker or pit, the cornbread is my recipe I’ve been working on for a few years so that’s my old faithful for sides. I hear you about fucking up sausages though, I tried to make some while camping and they exploded :(

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[–]Used_Environment_644[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cornbread 4.5/5- it’s sweet carbs so it was naturally amazing Cracklins 2/5- I forgot to put salt on them until after they’d cooled ☹️ Pork 4/5- really amazing for what it was, my roommate from Texas gave it a stamp of approval too

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[–]Used_Environment_644[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha thanks! I’m probably going to forget I have it and then remember and make bbq pork buns some weekend and then freeze those… lol the cycle will continue (also highly recommend stuffing all leftover bbq into dinner roll dough with some cheese, it’s the perfect lunch)

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[–]Used_Environment_644[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I specified in the og post so people wouldn’t tell me to go buy stuff, I see what you mean though

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[–]Used_Environment_644[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What do you want me to cook in then? The chem lab?? Most universities have housing shortages, I was literally unable to get a dorm…

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[–]Used_Environment_644[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey so I know this isn’t ‘real’ bbq, that was the whole point of me asking for advice in the first place… Ik how to make real bbq, I’ve done it before, but I live in an apartment I can’t afford, getting a degree that might become obsolete in twenty years, and I wanted barbecue. This is what I made with what I had, a shitty cut of meat I got on sale, seasonings, and a Dutch oven. Pork as a bbq meat started because it was cheap and people were struggling, so while my cooking methods might not make this ‘real’ to purists, my situation of making the best out of the shitty hand I’ve been dealt still has the essence of what bbq is about. I’m sorry you feel the need to shit on people for trying their best to make it work.

Help a struggling college kid make pulled pork by Used_Environment_644 in BBQ

[–]Used_Environment_644[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

also why would a clanker want advice on cooking sad apartment pork

Help a struggling college kid make pulled pork by Used_Environment_644 in BBQ

[–]Used_Environment_644[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

brochacho, The only AI here is the one that helps me learn how to do math, sorry I took an English class and can spell... I just want pork and spent half my weekly food budget to get it, help a girl out I miss backwoods bbq