anyone here into smokin?

StirCrazy · #1 01-20-2010, 05:14 AM

Meat that is

I got a smoker for christmas and it is turning out to be a new obsession. I have't even fired it up yet and I am already modding it

I made 8 cups of jack danials BBQ sauce and canned it so I would be ready. Iam going to do a test burn this week to see if I can regulate the temp to 225 degrees for about 5 hours then this weekend I am going to do about 6 racks of pork ribs.

Steve

lastlight · #2 01-20-2010, 05:16 AM

i'm SO there. Salivating already.

hillbillyreefer · #3 01-20-2010, 06:13 AM

I've got a heavily modified Bradley original. Digi temp, added more hangers for turkeys, hams etc. Small fans have been added to help minimize the hotspot at the back of the cabinet. This cabinet is going to go out the door in favour of our old dishwasher, as soon as I get around to it.

Check out www.thesmokering.com, lots of recipes and advice on there. Keep us posted with your favourite recipes!

#4 01-20-2010, 06:31 AM

I have a big chief smoker do up some bacon takes a little while to cure ( 7 days to do properly brown suger maple cure,) but it is worth it nothing like home smoked foods. trout and salmon are great too. I think I will be fireing up the smoker this week also thanks for reminding me. I have a large rainbow trout to do up I use maple and cherry wood mostly.

Bill

Delphinus · #5 01-20-2010, 07:14 AM

Seems to be a pretty addictive pastime. Buddy of mine takes his camping. Which you'd think would be the source of much mockery but the tables turn when he pulls out a smoked turkey for dinner or something. The whole campground shows up for dinner.

I want to get me one some day. My next door neighbours are Korean and the smells that emanate from cooking dinner are exquisite - so I could maybe set this up and have some kind of neighbourhood flavour wars.

Any pictures Steve?

MitchM · #6 01-20-2010, 10:27 AM

I'll do a pulled pork roast some weekends. A dry rub with a couple tinfoil bags of apple and mesquite wood chips.
It's pretty nice catching the odd whiff during the 6 hour cooking time.
Smoked meat is great.

Mitch

StirCrazy · #7 01-20-2010, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

Seems to be a pretty addictive pastime. Buddy of mine takes his camping. Which you'd think would be the source of much mockery but the tables turn when he pulls out a smoked turkey for dinner or something. The whole campground shows up for dinner.

I want to get me one some day. My next door neighbours are Korean and the smells that emanate from cooking dinner are exquisite - so I could maybe set this up and have some kind of neighbourhood flavour wars.

Any pictures Steve?

I'll take some pics and get them up for ya

you can actualy get into it pretty cheep. I think I have spend 100.00 to do the mods and I wanted some different woods so I spent another 80 bucks on that. The smoker I got is at costco out here for about 40 bucks here is a link to is https://www.brinkmann.net/Shop/Detai...harcoal&id=225

although it is a cheep one with a few mods it is knowen to be a very good smoker. biggest things are that the temp guage that comes with it is a "low/ideal/high guage so you need to install an actual gauge as you want your temps at 225 to 250 for smokin. the next two mods have to deal with air intake, there is a hole in the bottom to allow combustion air in but you need to be able to regulate this so you can controle your temp better so I installed some pipe and a valve. and the third one is that as the coals burn they drop ash which plugs up the air holes in the charcoal pan. so you use a grate to raise this up a bit so the ash has somewhere to go. the final one you can do (I am going to decide if I need to after a few smokes) is to install a chiminey and put a seal around the lid. this one was designed with a loose fitting lid which lets your smoke out but some people have beeter results modding this also.

Steve

StirCrazy · #8 01-20-2010, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by hillbillyreefer

I've got a heavily modified Bradley original. Digi temp, added more hangers for turkeys, hams etc. Small fans have been added to help minimize the hotspot at the back of the cabinet. This cabinet is going to go out the door in favour of our old dishwasher, as soon as I get around to it.

Check out www.thesmokering.com, lots of recipes and advice on there. Keep us posted with your favourite recipes!

I am running a brinkman gormet charcoal smoker.

the best webpage I have found yet is http://www.smokingmeatforums.com

Steve

StirCrazy · #9 01-20-2010, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MitchM

I'll do a pulled pork roast some weekends. A dry rub with a couple tinfoil bags of apple and mesquite wood chips.
It's pretty nice catching the odd whiff during the 6 hour cooking time.
Smoked meat is great.

Mitch

how big is the pulled pork your doing? everyone that does it from what I have read is looking at 12 to 15 hour smoke times..

I actualy ordered online and got a box of wild cherry, sugar maple, and a box of hickory, but I am pruning some trees in the back yard soI will also try some pear, couple types of apple, some plum and some bing cherry.

Steve

Glennrf38 · #10 01-20-2010, 02:11 PM

I have had my little cheif for like 20 years (the same one) and when I make jerky, by the time the last one comes out, the rest are gone. Also I do ribs, the cheap hams from stupid store, salmon, etc. I love it and use it quite often. I regulate the temp with the box it came in so I can still use it in the middle of winter.