Low and Slow 2022

On Thursday we were ready for our big feast which we had been planning since the start of this IL program. Everyone was assigned one item to bring, along with the biscuits and pulled pork that we made at school. For instance, Jack Bitman brought his homemade mac & cheese. This was one of...

Today was a pretty slow day in preparation for our feast tomorrow. First thing in the morning we trimmed and rubbed our pork butts to prepare them for the 18-hour smoking time. We’re practically pros after having done the same process for our ribs on Monday. We cut up some of the scrap meat...

On our third day day of Low and Slow, we started off the day by lighting the coals and taking out our prepared ribs that had been sitting in the refrigerator overnight. We bent them into spirals, securing them with wooden skewers (to fit all six racks into the relatively small smoker) and put...

For our second day of Low and Slow, we started the day off busy. First, we unloaded Mr. Sussman’s car, which had all the rest of our materials in it, and we put them all away in the kitchen. That included about 40 pounds of meat! Then we built the mini grill that Ben...

For our first day of “Low and Slow” we started off by watching a couple of videos about the art of smoking meat.  The video also taught us a couple of different ways to cut meat with a knife. Then we transferred all of our supplies to Van Meter Hall.  We then got introduced...