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Thanks! The shed does help; I had read that because Masterbuilt smokers are made in China (what isn't these days), they're not made to deal with our Canadian winter temperatures so that it needs to be sheltered when smoking in the wintertime. I've already found some great advice on this site, so...

Thanks everyone for the great advice! I can see now the recipe I had tried was very wrong. I just got a big pork belly that is now cut into 3 pieces so I'm going to try diggingdog's basic recipe with some added flavour components. I have high hopes that this batch will turn out well. 2 more...

Hello all, I'm from Ontario, Canada so right now it's cold and snowy! I just bought a Masterbuilt 30" electric smoker and so far have tried (unsuccessfully) smoking bacon. I currently have my smoker in an enclosed wooden shed (my hubby calls it the smoking shed for more reasons than one) with a...

Hello all, Just bought a smoker (Masterbuilt 30" electric) and our first experiment in smoking was bacon. Found a recipe online, which said to take our pork belly (skin on) and equal parts of kosher salt and brown sugar into it and place into a container in the fridge, draining the liquid every...