Z Grill Smoker, 04/06/2021

 Good morning all! Excited today that I am using our new Z-Grill Smoker! It is the Indigo Blue Junior. We bought it from Rural King for a really good price, at about $370. Nice features, pellet burner with electric auger, has the electronic selector and 2 probes and readings. The settings run from Smoke to 450F. So far, the only complaint I have with it was the packaging. It took forever to get the foam and parts out of the smoker portion. We did the initial fire up yesterday to test everything and now have a 9.6 pound pork butt cooking. I'm using a competition blend wood pellet and Famous Dave's seasoning rub on the meat. I like that it's not just a smoker, but a pellet grill to boot.






Pork butt, smoked for one hour and had already reached 165F in 6 hours!



The finished product!


Finally was able to get the greenhouse back up. Found a handy little thermometer/hygrometer on Amazon for $8.49. I like that it has Bluetooth. The app allows to set alerts for a range of temperature and humidity. For the heat, I did end up using the compost from cleaning out the chicken coop. Really heated up the inside that I had to open the front and vent the back as well.



Also wanted to share the apple blossoms, so pretty right now! This tree we let grow out. We have several smaller trees branch off of it, so now this larger one is to look at for the blossoms and shade for the chickens.



All I have for now. Have a great evening and God Bless!!



 

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