How to Make Texas Thick-Cut Smoked Pork Chops
Test cook Ashley Moore shows host Bridget Lancaster how to tackle Texas-sized Thick-Cut Smoked Pork Chops.
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Looks great ladies, but I would still eat the bacon. 😜
You use mesquite then why would you add liquid smoke?
Plus you add freakin ketchup, uuck! Ruined it all for me!
Awesome still!!!!
Very nice video!!!
That's some fine-looking swine. I've always had trouble with porkchops for some reason. Only ever made good ones once in my life. I'll give this a try.
Here's a tip to improve them though. I do this with anything I smoke that has sauce on it. Sometime between when the meat has taken on all the smoke it will, and when you take it off the grill, paint them with sauce at that point. It will start to caramelize on there. You'll get a nic sticky almost candied coating of sauce. It will concentrate the flavor of the sauce and the sauce will take on smoke flavor as well.
And for a side dish, along with the chops, throw on a dish of blue cheese and bacon mashed potatoes, or macaroni and cheese and let it smoke as well.
Those Chops at Coopers BBQ in Llano are the best.
You had me right up to the part where you soaked your chips 😝sorry soaked chips give you a musty flavor , all you need to do is cove your pellets or chips with heavy tinfoil and poke hole in it with a tooth pic so they won’t catch fire . The flavor will sell you for sure !
Hate it that the Karen's have people so scared of a bad comment that they have to say, "I'm just gonna go wash my hands real quick".
Real Texas thick is the whole pig.
Looks great- However, she never "SEARED" the chops- Cardinal sin!! 🙂
Lost me at soaking chips, especially mesquite, and then dousing in bbq sauce.
Yuck sauce
"The most moist pork I've ever had." Kermit the Frog: "Hold my beer."
I can barely maintain myself whenever I watch you cook.
Just think how it would have been if she would've cooked them with the sauce the last 15 minutes. Or seared them at the end.
Ashley is so pleasant! It feels like she really loves what she does and isn't going through the motions!
Outstanding video again ladies!!!! I will be trying this very soon and am looking forward to it
Ain’t now way a bunch of Yankees can do great bbq like Coopers
Gotta say I love how complete this channel feels. I'm learning and applying the science learned from the "What's Eating" videos to the more traditional cooking videos like this and it's giving me the confidence to try variations on recipes too! Incidentally, a "What's Eating" on BBQ and Smoking would be great, such a small thing like position of the grate on your grill or placement of coals and meat (which you very briefly touch on here) can make a tremendous difference in the cooking and I think a video dedicated to that would help a lot of people!
I love thick pork chops and steaks and have to try grilling some seeing how they turn out.
I’m a good cook, but there are 2 things I cook that NEVER turn out perfect, and pork chops are one of them. I’m too afraid of undercooking them and over cook them every time.
Where's the smoke on the grill when you started? And any whole meat BBQ gets sauce while it's still on the coals.
Wow! I can’t wait to make this!!!
That's gotta serve two people. It looks really good anyway
No way I am putting salt in the rub after brining the pork chops!! Needs brown sugar in that rub!
Ash, I am so happy you turned out to be a Great Chef…. Raymond
In Iowa… we just call that a pork chop.
got sear?
As a butcher those are not rib chops. You have zero the muscle group representation of the rib. You only get 5-7 inches of rib meat per pork loin. Non of that area is in your chops.