Yeah tell me about it. Obviously not the way it was all supposed to go but can't complain too much about the steel. They didn us a huge favor laser cutting it all for free for us. Last I heard the FB was assembled and tacked on the CC. should be ready to season tomorrow evening so we can play with temp control a little then.Man, that's cutting it close!
Yeah we cooked the whole hog. We've got a lot to learn about cooking a whole hog at one time but it was all really good still. Beer was cold, food was good, and a good time was had by all. I'm just happy to finally have a smoker I can start using in competitions. Never had anything big enough to do more than a couple racks of ribs on or more than two butts on. I'll do some practice cooking on it throughout this summer and it'll get tested with another big meal in august for our 10 year class reunion. (No whole hog just lots of goodies for 50+ people.)
I bet you and your brother were happy campers to find out it ran as smooth as it did.
Did you end up cooking a whole hog first cook? You always have time to make it pretty now that you know it runs great.
Great Job!!!
Not too bad really it took us a couple hours to get it where it needed to be but for the most part all three air intakes ran about half open and it maintained really well. We had a few splits that must've not been completely seasoned so there were a few times we had to open it up a little to burn them off but that was only once or twice. Like I mentioned in the above post I'm gonna do some practice burns on it and play with different vent settings just to see what it'll do and also get more familiar with it. In all the commotion I didn't get pics of the food though. I'll be sure to post pics of the next food I cook on here and also some pics whenever we get her cleaned up and painted. Thanks for all the help from all of you. This is an amazing forum!!!!!EXCELLENT !!!!! That's the way they are supposed to cook.... You did well on the build...... Did you find any difficulty adjusting the air inlets, on the FB, to get the even heat adjusted ??
I think the air tightness of the smoker, paying attention to detail, really paid dividends in it's performance....
Good job..... Dave
Yeah most definitely not the way we wanted to have to build it but it all came together. Lot's of thanks to all the information on this forum. Also my brother busted his ass to get everything done by Thursday night. He worked on it 32 hours between Wednesday and Thursday. I covered the majority of the research and unfortunately I can't weld so he got stuck with all the hot work, and we split cost evenly. Needless to say he was pretty relieved when it maintained temp and cooked as well as it did.
An amazing feat you pulled off there!
Shows what can be accomplished with the right information and the skills to get it done.