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I converted a 1936 Westinghouse refrigerator into an electric smoker a few years back. The refrigerator construction might help you out. It had a porcelain metal exterior shell and a porcelain metal interior shell separated from each other by 1” thick compressed paper insulation. The door was of...

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It’s home made. A converted old Westinghouse refrigerator. I place the tray for the chips on a rack that’s on the element.

I have an electric smoker. When is the best time to use wood chips and when to use wood chucks?

I start at 300 then 230 - 235 at 30 min a pound. I rented with aluminum added water to hopefully get some gravy out of it. I put it in at 11:30 and its at 149 degrees. Another hour or so.

I’m smoking one today for my daughter and her family. It’s16# brined with salt, rosemary, thyme and sage. I’ll smoke it at 225 with a little applewood until 165 in the thighs. I’ll loose tent it. Better to smoke it outside than heat up the house.

Wow, this was a year ago. This came out very nice see my earlier post. I downloaded the Kindle book "Lone Star Brisket" by James Austin. It is a great book on smoking briskets. I recommend downloading it or buying the hard copy. It helps from buying the meat to serving the finished product. He...

Thanks for the help. I finally got a 17 lbs choice grade at Costco. It looked pretty good $2.99 lb. I'll try to get some photos of it

Does anyone near San Antonio know where to get the best brisket? I know Costco, Sam's Club, Walmart and HEB has them, but is the another market? Thanks

It came separately wrapped in plastic. So I just froze it. I smoked it a few weeks later. I used a new rub and mesquite wood. It had more fat and it came out superb.

Costco not Cistco.

I cooked the shoulder on Saturday. @270-300 degrees for 12 hours. I used mesquite smoking chips and Billbo's rub. The flavor was excellent but the outside was dry and a bit chewy. Next time I'll wrap in foil after the first two hours or cook for only 10 hours. I also cooked with the smoke chips...

Thanks to all. I paid $2.09 a pound for it.

Thanks for all the advise fellas. Happy Smokin.

What should the interanl temp. be? Have seen from 180 to 225?