Smoker for big cooks

erik

Fire Starter

Original poster

Sep 8, 2009

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Belleville, MI

• Sep 29, 2010

• #1

Wondering what other enthusiasts might use for bigger cooks. By bigger cooks, I mean ~50-100 people.

I have a UDS, but on bigger parties I end up having to do a couple of runs to get all the meat done. So without spending thousands on a trailer setup, what is everyone else doing once friends and family "discover" you tasty talents?

 

matts

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Apr 13, 2010

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Central Illinois

• Sep 29, 2010

• #2

Well if you don't want to buy or build a big enough rig to do that much, then just build ya a couple more UDS's and go from there. But if you have the tools and access to scrap, you can build a trailer rig pretty cheap. 

 

boykjo

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Apr 28, 2010

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Raleigh,NC

• Sep 29, 2010

• #3

MattS said:

Well if you don't want to buy or build a big enough rig to do that much, then just build ya a couple more UDS's and go from there. But if you have the tools and access to scrap, you can build a trailer rig pretty cheap. 

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Matts, Looking at your albums, I am impressed with all the units. Did you build all of those?

 

bowtieracin

Smoke Blower

Aug 10, 2009

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tama iowa

• Sep 29, 2010

• #4

i used an old commercial all s.s fridge from a restaurant. Has several shelves i used a turkey fryer l.p heating element all insulated works awesome!! I have never filled it but you can get alot of meat in it if you want. just an idea works for me 

 

matts

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Apr 13, 2010

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Central Illinois

• Sep 29, 2010

• #5

Boykjo, 

No, those are a collection of pretty much all the custom smokers that members here have built.  I put together a thread in the custom smokers forum that shows them all.  That is why they all show up in my album.  Here is the link to the thread.  http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/forum/thread/97195/custom-smoker-build-categorized ..  There are a couple of mine in there and more that need to be added.