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    how clean do you keep your smoker?

    I clean my smoker and bbq like I clean my cast iron pans....knock anything that could mold off and burn everything else into carbon.
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    Design help

    A little update on the smoker.....it has evolved into a split system where the fire box and cook chamber are split into two separate halves that can cook independently of each other. That solved the air flow problem over each end. I have smoked a bunch of meat so far and it all has done very...
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    Design help

    Ribs came out tasting good and very moist. They are a little tougher than I like though. That toughness is from my pit temps not being high enough....first time use learning curve. The brisket is still in there and at five hours it was at 160* so I wrapped it in foil and put it back on the pit...
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    Design help

    I bite the bullet today and for my first cook I tossed in four racks of ribs and a 12# brisket. Pretty big learning curve being the first time cooking on it. Already I am going to have to switch to lump charcoal just to get up to temp faster. My goal was to not have to add fuel during a 6 hour...
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    Design help

    Well, it's done and smoking away......temps hold even for 6-8 hours on tests burns at 225 degrees. It's a double reverse flow center feed smoker. I can fit 8 racks of ribs in it and other meats will be tried too.
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    California trip in the new year

    If for any reason you go east from San Francisco a little ways you have to stop at CJ's BBQ in Fairfield for their pork ribs. It's a complete hole in the wall joint with BBQ's in the parking lot but it's some of the finest bbq on the planet. Prepare for no AC when it's hot and drinks from an old...
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    First Brisket

    I smoked several small brisket with good results. My first attempt at a large full packer proved difficult. I got the flat done correctly but the point suffered from low cooking temps. I know where I went wrong and will try again once my new smoker is finished and dialed in. Your pictures are...
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    favorite thing to cook & why

    Baby backs are my number one. Tri tip is my second. The reason is my ribs are a favorite of all that eat them and the tri tip is my all time favorite hunk of meat to eat hot off the grill.
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    First Brisket

    Looks good!
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    Italian Night in the Relleno House

    Nice!
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    Venting a smoker in a shed

    I'm liking that set up!
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    Smoked Apple Roses

    Looking good!
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    Design help

    I did a little test today and lit a fire in one end of the fire box and had the smoke travel the entire length of the 6' box then built a temporary transition from fire box to cook chamber and had the smoke run back the entire 6' out the other end of the top tube. It flowed pretty well and the...
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    Design help

    A little background............I'm in the far northern reaches of California.....more a southern Oregon thing. Temps are not wild here and cooking in the winter when it's freezing out won't be happening anyway. I apologize for the vague drawings as I am used to building things in my head without...
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    Design help

    Okay.....two pieces of 8" x 12" x 1/2" thick box tube. Each piece is 6' long. Fire box is bottom piece.. that box tube is on edge ( 8" wide 12" tall) On top of that tube is the cooking chamber tube and it's sideways (12" wide and 8" tall). They form a fat "T" shape looking from the end view...
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