Initial Smoke and Spritzing

running you want to make sure you've got plenty of pellets in your grill so that you don't run out of pellets during the cook so we turn the trailer on just hold the button fire it up there i'm going to turn our temperature up to 225 and accept right there push ignite to start and that's it okay so she's all fired up here i don't like to waste this good smoke so without further ado we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna put our pan of water in here and this just helps keep the meat nice and moist so if you're doing this in the oven you can also use a pan of water you don't have to smoke this you can do it in your own conventional oven let's go grab that piece of meat and we'll show you how it's sweated out look at that oh man that's gonna be delicious so we'll go ahead and set this guy over to the side we'll reach underneath here we'll cradle this guy and sit him right in fat side up okay just like so right in the center of the grill i'm going to rinse my hands and we'll give it its first spritz with the apple cider and apple juice so this is the part where i like to use my honey and i just have a little bit of honey left we're gonna pour i don't know two shot glasses two ounces of honey we don't need that in there put two ounces of honey or so we'll go ahead and we'll just slather it with a little honey on the top just like so oh yeah now you can really see that honey kind of oozing down through there this is gonna be a delicious piece of meat guys so next thing we're gonna do we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna hit it with our spritzer our spray and we're gonna do this about every hour or so whenever we think about it but remember if you're looking you ain't cooking so you wanna keep this closed as much as you possibly can once we get started we're going to go ahead and put our traeger temperature probe in we're going to put it into the deepest part of the meat right here all the way in there there we go and our temperature goal is going to be 165 degrees this is our