Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Food, Cooking, and Game Preparation Breaking in new smoker

Just got a Masterbuilt electric smoker. Haven't used a smoker since I had an old Cabelas kettle smoker about 20 years ago. Never had much luck with it as trying to regulate or maintain any type of consistent temperature was difficult. Frankly, I didn't know what I was doing with it. I figure the electric which is programmable, is easier and so far I'm please. Only done a few smokes so far. Today I did some ribs and wings.

Did a dry rub on the ribs and started at 225�


After 3 hours, I wrapped the ribs in double layers of heavy duty aluminum foil, meat side down and put them back in for two hours to steam in their own juices.

At four hours, I added some wings with dry rub.

At 5 hours I removed the ribs from the foil and placed them back on the rack for another hour.

The ribs and wings are finished @ 6 hours. (Wings only last two hours)


The wings I dipped in Franks Hot Sauce cut 50:50 with cider vinegar then threw them on a hot grill for about 1.5-2 minutes per side to crisp up the skin.


I let the ribs rest about 10 minutes


Then cut them up and had them with the wings. Good eats!


I think both these are a must have for Super Bowl! As if I needed an excuse!