Cobb Supreme / Pork Steaks

Here is another cook on my new Cobb Supreme that I did in the last couple of weeks. This cooker is still a learning process for me but I have about figured it out for most cooking. 

I need to explain this first picture as someone may get the wrong idea of how pork steaks should be cooked. I love this treat but it must be cooked in the traditional manner  which would mean that they need to be oiled, rubbed with a spicy rub, and grilled first and then placed into a half pan with a bottle of Maull’s BBQ sauce which has been cut with beer and then simmered for about an hour to finish them up. Now, that’s the way you cook pork steaks!

Wife doesn’t like them this way so every now and then, I have to fix some for her. 

Anyway, I added a couple slices of tomatoes, a slice of corn bread, and a little dab of sour cream to the potatoes and gave her a fine meal. 

I prepped the meat with olive oil and then added some SPG for this cook. The potatoes were also rubbed with olive oil and salt and pepper.

I used 14 all hardwood briquets for this cook.

I used the Cobb Supreme griddle for this cook and it did a fine job.

The results of the cook.

Smoking Cheese in the Hasty-Bake Gourmet

I have been waiting patiently for some cooler weather as we are completely out of smoked cheese. I need a day or morning at about 50 degrees or under. 

This smoke was about 10 pounds of cheese including the following:

2 pound pepper jack

2 pound sharp cheddar

2.28 pound 4 year aged cheddar

1.14 pound Swiss

8oz monterey jack

8 oz mild cheddar

8 oz sharp cheddar

1.67 pound three alarm colby jack

I started the smoke early in the morning as I wanted the coolest temperatures of the day.

I used a half hotel pan full of ice to help hold down the temperature inside the cooker.

I used 5 all hardwood briquets for my fire and a couple of chunks of hickory for my smoke wood for this cook.

Was a nice morning with a cooler temperature of about 50 degrees. The cheese took 90 minutes to get done. I was able to keep the temperature inside the cooker at under 70 degrees which is great for smoking cheese.

The results of my smoke ready for the vacuum pack machine.

Bagged and ready for the fridge.

This should hold us for a few months.

Gotta love smoked cheese off of a Hasty Bake. And for any folks that have not tried real smoked cheese, you are missing out on a great treat. Most all smoked cheese available in outlets hasn’t been even close to a smoker... it is done with chemicals. 

New Cobb Supreme / Hot Buffalo Wings

The next cook in my New Cobb Supreme were some scorching hot chicken wings. 

Now, would you believe that I had this for breakfast. A fellow needs a good solid breakfast with juice and some meat!

I like the hot Buffalo wings breaded as I can get much more hot sauce on them this way. These wings were sauced 4 times during the cook.

Used an egg and milk wash and the breading consisted of black,red, and white pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and a mix of corn meal and flour.

I like to bread the wings and then place them in the fridge for about an hour before the cook. Gives the breading time to set up a little before the fire.

You think that Supreme doesn't cook evenly?? Just look how nice the wings are cooked just before we started applying the hot sauce.

I used 14 all hardwood briquets for this cook and it took about an hour to get the wings done.

My sauce mix includes some Frank's Hot Sauce, some melted butter, 1/8 cup honey, 1/8 cup rooster, 4 TBL Tabasco, and about 1 TBL of ground cayenne pepper.

Ready to come off of the Cobb Supreme as they are done.

Now that's a beautiful plate of hot wings in my opinion.

New Cobb Pizza Stone / Bake and Review

This thing has been talked about for many months and has finally arrived and I purchased mine for $18.00 dollars plus shipping from Cobb Grill America a few weeks ago. 

It is designed to fit into the Cobb roasting rack on the Premier cooker. 

The new Cobb Pizza stone is about 7/16" thick with four feet and is a very nice accessory if it will do a good job with pizza. It is very wide and doesn't have very much room (7/16") between the stone and the dome cover for the heat to come up around it to cook the top of your bread and pizza. It measures about 10-1/2” in diameter. Everything about this new hearth stone is quality. 

Having done a lot of baking on this cooker, I knew it might be difficult to make this stone work as expected. To help with this first bake, I used my modified cooking grid which has 24 extra larger holes in the outside edge which will help getting some heat and smoke up around this very large stone to help cook the top of my bread and pizza. 

I started with the maximum amount (13) of all hardwood briquets for this first bake. 

I decided to use a dome extension for this first pizza attempt with the new Cobb hearth stone. I figured that to keep the bottom of the pizza from burning before the top got cooked, I needed to get my hearth stone up and a little higher from the fire. 

I let the stone heat up for about 20 minutes and then checked the temperature on the top of the stone and found it at about 270F degrees and I also had a probe in the top of the cooker and it was registering about the same, and I had an oven thermometer inside on the stone and it as well was about 270F degrees. That sure seemed low to me for baking but that was all I could get out of the cooker with this large stone. At this point, I was wondering if I could get a good pizza off of the cooker at this low temperature.

I made up a very simple pizza for this first try with just sauce, cheese, onions, bell peppers, and pepperoni.

Loaded my first pizza onto the Cobb and started the bake. 

It is done on the Cobb grill and ready to come off the cooker. It took way too long to bake at over double the time of a normal pizza bake as I couldn’t get enough heat up and around this very large hearth stone to bake a good pizza. 

I did get a pretty good pizza off of the cooker with the kinda crispy crust I wanted but this was a very simple pizza without much goodies on it. There is just no way this stone will work very well with the average pizza cook. It’s just too big in diameter for the cooker. I’ll bet the engineer designed the hearth stone on a Friday afternoon after spending too much time in a pub for lunch! 

I wouldn’t recommend this stone for the Cobb Premier but it is a great hearth stone which I will use in my small Big Green Egg and my small Weber kettle. 

A proper sized hearth stone for this Cobb Premier shouldn’t be over 9” in diameter and will produce wonderful pizza, breads, cobblers, pies, cakes, and other baked treats. 

Hot and Fast brisket on the Cobb Supreme

This is the last cook I have done on my new Cobb Supreme cooker and it came out quite well. 

Added a baked potato and some mac and cheese and a cottage cheese salad and had a fine meal.

The brisket flat weighed 8.99 pounds and after trimming, I had a net weight of 7.89 pounds. I sprinkled on a moderate amount of butcher cut black pepper and then added my favorite beef rub about 45 minutes before the fire.

I started with 20 all hardwood briquets and then added two fairly large hickory chunks for my smoke wood. After the cooker got on temperature, I added my temperature probe and started my cook. Since it was raining, I had to move my cook to my covered front porch.

Cooker started dropping temp about 90 minutes into the cook so I added 8 more all hardwood briquets. I also added more smoke wood.

At about 2 hours and 10 minutes into the cook, and with my internal temperature of the meat at about 178F degrees, I wrapped the meat in heavy duty foil with some liquid goodies as I will braise it for the last period.

The meat reached an internal of about 208-211F internal in about another hour and 10 minutes and I took it off the cooker as it was done.

The total time for this cook was a little under 3-1/2 hours. 

These higher temp shorter brisket and pork butt cooks do give up a little on the bark but this one still had enough bark to add the flavor I wanted. Had a nice smoke ring for a short cook.

That is a nice plate of meat.

Meat came out nice and juicy and very tender. I took it to about 206F to 211F internal as this is needed to get a hot and fast brisket done.

I kept the cooker temperature at about 265-285F measured at the top of the dome lid for the duration of this short cook.

Here are some later pictures of my brisket sandwich lunch.

I like to pile on at least two layers of meat, add some horseradish sauce, lettuce, tomato, onion on a good egg bun for my sandwich. Then I want it served with some chips and a good dessert.

Let's eat! 

New Cobb Supreme Grill / First Cook Ribs

Cobb Grill America (US Distributor) had a huge one day Labor Day sale on all their products at 30% off and I needed some items for my standard Cobb Premier so I ordered them and after kicking it around for most of the day and evening, I ordered the Cobb Supreme Oval which is their largest cooker. The 30% off is the largest discount I have ever seen on these cookers. 

Ok, I decided to cook a slab of loin back ribs and a slab of St. Louis cut spare ribs for my first try with the new cooker. 

I prepped the ribs by trimming some of the fat off and then removing the membrane. I then sprinkled on a good rib rub about 20 minutes before the cook. I added about 20 all hardwood briquets to the charcoal basket for the cook. Used a couple chunks of hickory for smoke.

Got the cook started about daylight this morning.

Cooker just sitting there and doing it's thing...

The standard round Cobb Premier is about 11-1/2” in diameter on the cooking surface and my new oval Cobb Supreme measures about 12” X 17-1/4” on the cooking surface. 

I cooked the ribs at about 300F degrees and the cook took 2-1/2 hours. Did not use any foil.

Ribs sliced and ready for serving.

Nice looking ribs with lots of meat.

A couple of nice thick loin back rib pieces along with a couple of sides makes a fine meal.

Nice smoke ring on the rib pieces.

The first cook came out pretty good but I did have too much charcoal in the cooker and had to fight to keep the temperatures in check. Probably be a small learning curve on this oval cooker as compared to the smaller round Cobb.