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    Terra Cotta Smoker (Flower Pot) and Heatermeter 4.0, or pid if I blow up raspberry pi

    You inspired me!!! I put my PID controller together, and am sitting here testing it out! For the grill grate, I ended up with a 16 inch grill topper from amazon. The ID I'd my bottom pot is right at 16 inches diameter. I wanted to have the grate sit on the inner lip of my pot. So I needed...
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    Terra Cotta Smoker (Flower Pot) and Heatermeter 4.0, or pid if I blow up raspberry pi

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    Terra Cotta Smoker (Flower Pot) and Heatermeter 4.0, or pid if I blow up raspberry pi

    Looks good! I also built a terra cotta smoker.  The biggest problem I had was finding a grate to fit in my 18" pot the way I wanted.  Here a couple pic's of mine.  Maiden voyage was a 4 pound Pork Shoulder.  I used a router speed control to manually adjust the temps.  I have the parts ready to...
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    First Time Smoking experiment.... Pork Shoulder

    I think I may have figured it out..... It appears that my thermometer that I was using is not reading correctly...grrrrr.. I put both thermometers in ice water.... The one I used for the meat read 34 degrees. The one I was using to read the air temp read 55 degrees. Then I put both in boiling...
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    Hello from Tigard Oregon!

    Hi.  I am new to smoking, and decided to join this forum for tips and advice! I built my own flower pot smoker (thanks Alton Brown!) and am looking forward to smoking some meat! Brian
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    First Time Smoking experiment.... Pork Shoulder

    Guys, Thanks for the advice.  I will try going up to 205 internal temp, and hopefully get better results.  I also think I am going to start out at 250 for the smoker temp.... I am thnking that maybe I started too low (215) on the temperature of the smoker.  I was very careful to make sure my...
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    First Time Smoking experiment.... Pork Shoulder

    Hello all. This weekend I decided to try my hand at something I have wanted to do for years... Smoking Pork!!!!  Alton Brown got me interrested when he assembled a "cheap and easy" flower pot smoker. I researched it on the web, and built one.  While not as cheap as advertised, I finally got...
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