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  1. ralphed

    Scored a freezer for a Drying/Curing chamber

    Hi All; The neighbors sold everything and moved out. I got this chest freezer to convert into a curing and drying chamber. I'm thinkin I'm gonna try the light bulb in the paint can for heat first (with a dimmer to tune it).
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    Kielbasa n Kraut fattie

    Hi all; Yep I'm tryin' a fattie. I'm off to a slow start but Here's what I did so far; Pepper bacon n Kielbasa from Winona Frozen Foods, there a great small place. I will use a bacon weave with 1 lb of beef inside it, then mashed potatoes, then kraut and, finally, kielbasa. I thought about...
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    Salt cod recipe anyone?

    Hi all; I didn't know where else to post this. Anyone have recipes for salt cod? Smoked or not. Soup, stew, pasta, etc. I'm trying it for the first time. I know there's recipes online, but this place is a good knowledge base. I was thinking of potatoe fish cakes, as I have made them from...
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    my rib sauce recipe

    OK, I'll throw this recipe out for comments, 'cause that's how you learn. Thanks in advanced for your comments. I like vinegar sauces with black and/or red pepper and came up with this as my work in progress. 1 cup white vinegar 1 1/2 cup water 1 TBSP Hungarian sweet paprika. I like Penzey's...
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    bottom round temps question

    Hi all; I just put a bottom round in my smoking tex with about 1/4 cup hickory chips and about a cup of apple chips. Set it at just over 150 for a slow smoke for several hours. The plan is to make Cajun spiced pintos with it this evening. Since its gonna cook a while with the beans I just want...
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    first kraut attempt (with pics)

    Hi all; Thanks to Tom (Mr. T) for advice on salt content and his tutorial. It fired me up. So I goes out to the farm and gets 50+ pounds of cabbage for 10 bucks (8 very large heads) and found a 10 gal crock at the local old stuff store. Next time I'll get smaller heads or a very large knife...
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    first cheese smoke

    I got the smoke pistol mounted on the electric ECB. Then I got a brainfart and bent a piece of stainless mesh in a cradle to hold wood pellets - and drove around for 2 hours looking for wood pellets without finding them. (I know I'm gonna get some pitches for the AMNPS, and I will get one...
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    smoke box for grills

    Anyone ever try one of these? I bought it several years ago when a neighbor gave me an old gas grill. It died before I tried. Prolly a good thing, I've done some bad things to food with a gas grill. I cut a piece of stainless shim stock to lay on top of the chips in case they burn up too...
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    jeff's buttermilk brine recipe

    I saw a reference to this in a post and cannot find it. Can someone post a link to it? Pretty Please? I marinade really thick porkchops in buttermilk and fry them with zataran's seasoned fish fry as a coating and it works great. The corn meal doesn't burn like wheat flour (at least, I think...
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    rib hooks

    Do you have to use more than 1 per rib rack? I want to hang some and was thinking that I have to chain a couple together and support the ribs at a couple points to keep the ribs from falling apart. thanks all, ralphed
  11. ralphed

    Who invented.......

    The charcoal briquette? (I read it on a bag of lump charcoal a long time ago) I bet everybody here knows, but I run into a lot of folks outside grilling who don't. ralphed
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    TBS?

    This is about 25 minutes after I put the pork butt into my ST140 and turned the unit to 225. It's prolly 40F, or less, here in NE Ohio. I added about 1/8 cup each mesquite and pecan chips and about 1/2 cup of cherry chips onto the charred chips left over from last smoke (I think this insulates...
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    Hello from slOHIO

    Hi all; Newbie from NE Ohio here. I was rummaging around the internet this morning, looking for reviews on my new smoke pistol (wish I'd have found them sooner) and I found this forum. I'm a gadget guy, so I will have fun messing with it. I have a couple grills, including a weber, and a...
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