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    An idea for making bisquettes for Bradley smokers

    Find a friend, your local mechanic,  who has an arbor press. Same formulation, but it's slower burning. We went on vacation this summer, a friend had a thoroughly dead apple tree he was cutting. I said just load it on the truck.  Took it over to another friend who has a tub hay grinder, didn't...
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    An idea for making bisquettes for Bradley smokers

    Right on.  It's one thing to enjoy something, another to get obsessed. I do the Weber most of the time, the propane when I'm just burning a steak and the smoker when I'm getting serious. I don't need to smoke everything all the time. I also like my deep fryer. Like to make big one-pot meals like...
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    Is cherry wood safe

    I misread after too much bourbon.  I thought the cherry was coming out of Iowa. I've found in the past that sweet cherry is good, wild cherry is better, but sour cherry, like Montmorency, can be a bit on the acrid side. One year I was making chipotles with various woods, apple, peach, apricot...
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    Is cherry wood safe

    Now I'm in Texas, so I'd be closer and I think it might mix well with my Pecan. I could probably dispose of quite a bit in a controlled burn. I'd be more than willing to trade a truckload of mesquite for a load of cherry any day. I think mesquite smoke smells like diesel fuel. Most people down...
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    Is cherry wood safe

    Alright, for all you non-chemists out there, it's not arsenic, it's cyanide and it's only in the pits and leaves. The wood is clean, don't worry about it or peach or apricot, which have the same. Nectarine, plum, basically anything that has a pit in the fruit, actually almond, and it's a cyanide...
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    An idea for making bisquettes for Bradley smokers

    Way too much work and the binder is not gelatin, it's Carboxymethyl Cellulose, AKA Dippity-Do.( see if your daughter has some) That's what's in your briquettes.  I got to go through a briquetting plant once (no, it was not Kingsford) and they had a pallet of CMC there and I asked about it as we...
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    An idea for making bisquettes for Bradley smokers

    How much smoke do you need? I can put 4 1"X 3" discs of apple in my Weber and get plenty of smoke. Put a small apple branch in my offset and there's plenty of smoke. You don't need to smoke out the neighborhood. You also don't want to smoke the entire cooking time. If you do, you will end up...
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    Cherry Gloat

    A little cherry is good, a lot is evil.  I did a survey of a bunch of customers using apple, cherry, peach and apricot. Apple was everybody's #1, cherry was everybody's least favorite. Didn't make any difference what I was smoking. A little cherry mixed in with a lot of something else is OK, but...
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    how do you smoke a beef tongue?

    My brother -in law does them exactly reverse. Poach, skin, smoke. Otherwise, you're just peeling off the smoked portion. Just makes sense to me.
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    Trying out the "Yard Sculpture"

    Madison County.  N of Huntsville. We're drilling up a huge play, drilling 1 well per section to hold the leases. This spring we're going to start drilling horizontal wells to develop the field. There are several companies drilling the area, but we're trying to minimize the impact by using the...
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    Trying out the "Yard Sculpture"

    Didn't get much of a rest, the girls from across the street brought over 2 racks of ribs.  We did one with our fearless leader's rub and the other with just ground Mirasol Chile and garlic powder. Smoked with nothing but apple.  Hate to say it, but the chile and garlic won hands down. I've been...
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    Trying out the "Yard Sculpture"

    The couple across the street moved to California and abandoned a home-built offset smoker.  My wife spotted it and asked me (I was working, out on a drilling rig in East Texas) if I was interested.  Sure, so she, her cleaning lady and a couple of local guys got it across the street and into the...
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    Greetings from SPI

    My name is David, I live on S. Padre Island, but work in East Texas so have access to wood other than palm trees. I've used a lot of different smokers over the past 30 years, but recently just a 22" Weber with a water pan. My wife informs me that I've inherited my neighbor's offset smoker...
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    Walnut shells

    Has anyone used walnut shell?  I have access to as much as I want.  I use pecan shells. Is it similar?
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