Mini-WSM Smokin table

leah elisheva

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• Dec 20, 2013

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Fantastic table!!!!!!! I should whip up some kind of elevated set-up with mine! Meanwhile, you're inspirational! Cheers! - Leah

 

dirtsailor2003

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• Dec 20, 2013

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Leah Elisheva said:

 
Fantastic table!!!!!!! I should whip up some kind of elevated set-up with mine! Meanwhile, you're inspirational! Cheers! - Leah

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Thank you Leah! I'm always building something!

 

jarjarchef

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• Dec 20, 2013

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Great job! I will have to keep this in mind for when I build my mini style smoker. I am debating on the mini or a UDS......

 

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jarjarchef said:

Great job! I will have to keep this in mind for when I build my mini style smoker. I am debating on the mini or a UDS......

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My two cents the mini is what I smoke on 99% of the time. I've smoked on my UDS twice since I built it, just because. The amount of meat I smoked I could have done on the mini and used less charcoal. The other thing is the mini is so easy to pack and take anywhere to and smoke. You can fill a chimney and pack the whole thing in the pot and off you go!

 

jarjarchef

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Good info Case. I will have to ponder on it. I want a small smoker for just the Better Half and me. When we went to the South Florida gathering a couple people had them and they looked like they worked very well.

 

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• Dec 30, 2013

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FritzMonroe said:

 
Sorry for the second post so soon.  I didn't think about it before, but I'll have to put some sort of guard on this so coals don't roll onto the wood.  Hate to have the table burn.  Not an issue with the table, but it could drop my dutch oven and that would be a bad thing.

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The one thing to worry about when placing hot briquettes on a concrete surface is spalling. That happens when any moisture that is in the concrete gets hot and turns to steam and explodes upwards. I have some small scars on my legs from when I started out dutch oven cooking and place the briquettes and the pots on the carport. I have a couple of dedicated d.o. cooking stands plus I can use my Mini stand in a pinch.

My Mini table is a recycled chrome end-table stand that used to have a glass top. I rescued it from going to the landfill and had my son cut a circle out of 1/4 plate and bolted it to stand.

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• Dec 30, 2013

 

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• Dec 30, 2013

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Dutch said:

 
The one thing to worry about when placing hot briquettes on a concrete surface is spalling. That happens when any moisture that is in the concrete gets hot and turns to steam and explodes upwards. I have some small scars on my legs from when I started out dutch oven cooking and place the briquettes and the pots on the carport. I have a couple of dedicated d.o. cooking stands plus I can use my Mini stand in a pinch.

My Mini table is a recycled chrome end-table stand that used to have a glass top. I rescued it from going to the landfill and had my son cut a circle out of 1/4 plate and bolted it to stand.

Mini WSM Table top.jpg

• Dutch
• Dec 30, 2013

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Brilliant and Barbecue Fashionable!