Recent content by 1wheeldrive

Willis, Too bad you already cut the top off of the SS drum.  That would have made an awesome horizontal smoker, cutting a lid lengthwise, then just adding a heavy duty plain carbon steel firebox off on the side.  It's big enough in diameter that you could have easily added a baffle plate for...

I've been cooking on my UDS for well over a year now.  It's been a great cooking experience in general, but like any cook, I always think that I might be able to do just a little bit better.  One "downfall" of the UDS design as compared to an offset cooker, is that the meat is sitting directly...

I turn my Weber chimney upside down and only fill the small area in (what is normally) the bottom part of the chimney for the starting charcoal, and add them to one side of the big charcoal basket when they are hot.  I also do not preheat my UDS to 225 before putting the meat on.  Once I've got...

You don't really need high temp paint for the outside of a UDS.  You are usually only cooking at ~225-250 degrees F, maybe all the way up to 325F for poultry.  Plain old rattle can Rustoleum will hold up fine at those temps.  It has on mine for over a year now.  If it did ever blister a little...

Thanks for the welcome.  Yeah my addiction has progressed beyond the COS.  THe UDS has been built and has been turning out BBQ for about a year now.  But here's a little more about my build: Since I wanted a bigger pit, and really couldn't see parting with several hundred for what was a new...

Hey smokingmeatforums, I just joined your forum after I stumbled across it in a google search.  I've always enjoyed eating good BBQ, and we do go out to eat at smoke houses whenever we can find one, but we live in Southern New Hampshire, and there aren't a lot of great que places around here. ...

I've tried using a water pan under the meat, and frankly did not like the results at all.  While the meat was moist, the outside had virtually no bark on it, and I am one who covets a nice dark bark.  I've since gone to using a dry disposeable turkey roaster pan over the charcoal basket just as...

When I built my charcoal basket I bolted the bottom grate through a few short sections of pipe as spacers to a cheap pizza pan from Walmart.  The pizza pan acts as the ash catcher and all of the fallen ash comes out when I pull the basket out. Here are a couple of photos of my basket And...