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    Question about pellet smokers.... planning...

    Thanks, Red. That's perfect.  Kinda odd they don't have overall dimensions on the web site. Thanks for goin' out in the dark and measuring this for me :)  Now all I gotta do is get the wife on board.  Rec Tec called me yesterday to see if I had questions which of course I did and I FORGOT to...
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    Question about pellet smokers.... planning...

    yessir.... it is... still can't find overall dimensions :)
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    Question about pellet smokers.... planning...

    After a lot of reading I told my wife I wanted this. Her reaction? "It's a lot of money and why do you need another grill?" That kinda ticks me off quite frankly. Since I retired and she's still working, I do the grocery shopping and all of the cooking. I look at this as trading in 3...
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    Question about pellet smokers.... planning...

    Know what I can't find on Rec Tec's site?  Dimensions! How LONG is the Rec Tec (from outside end of the side shelf/controller, to the outside edge of the chimney)? And how DEEP is it? (either WITH the front tray or without. I can figure out from there) Trying to see if this will fit in a...
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    Question about pellet smokers.... planning...

    I have a 5500 watt generator for power outages :) And actually, in the house, the cooktop is natural gas and can be manually lit, so.... oh... and I've lived in this area 62 years and haven't seen a hurricane here yet. :) Is it PRACTICAL, do you think, to consider getting rid of the Weber, the...
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    Question about pellet smokers.... planning...

    This'll get a little wordy, but please bear with me as I explain the situation before asking the question :) Right now I have a Weber Performer charcoal grill, a Ducane Stainless gas grill, and a Smoke Hollow propane cabinet smoker. The smoker is in a "shack on a pallet" that I built for it...
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    Turkey and sausage?

    I've done poultry as high as 400 in the smoker. :) Ok, not small pieces, but a 14 pound bird. Internal temp is reached properly, you still get that nice smoky flavor, and the skin is much better when cooked hot.  Smaller stuff like a 5 pound roasting chicken or thighs or leg quarters, I would...
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    Smoked Pork Leftovers

    Bark Scavenging is the cook's reward, isn't it? I always tell myself that. ...
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    What do you drive?

    Hmmm... I should update this. I think last time I posted on this thread I was driving a Dodge Grand Caravan. Well.... it went to the big Mopar boneyard and I picked up a 3 year old Hyundai Santa Fe with a 6-cyl, tow package (draw bar's never been out of the box. It was still sealed) and only 20k...
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    A house for my smoker...

    well, it's about 10 degrees out there right now so I'm not in a hurry to run out to measure :) but I'd say the smoker has about 8 inches or so of airspace around it on sides and back and mosre like a foot or so at the top. I've run my smoker for a few hours as hot as I can get it (so somewhere...
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    HELP!!!

    Just adding to your post with my own early finisher today. I planned for my 13 pound bird to take about 3 and a half to 4 hours. It took TWO. It sat on the kitchen counter for AN HOUR after I pulled it and was still too hot to handle when I started taking it apart. 
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    turkey day.....yum...

    Before: and After: 13 pound bird, brined 24 hours in Chef JimmyJ's brine. Rubbed under the skin and on top of skin with herbed butter (thyme, sage, garlic). With a large bundle of fresh thyme shove up where the sun never shined. Dried in fridge uncovered for 12 hours. Bird into smoker at...
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