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  1. down yonder bbq

    What's your occupation?

    We'll Im a Master Journeyman Plumber and HVAC Installer Service Tech. But trying to change careers and move into sales of barbecue equipment and spices.
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    The Folded Napkin Happy Thanksgiving

    He was short, a little dumpy with the smooth facial features and thick-tongued speech of Downs Syndrome. I wasn't worried about most of my trucker customers because truckers don't generally care who buses tables as long as the meatloaf platter is good and the pies are homemade. The...
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    so what is everyone doing Thanksgiving?

    As for us we will be at Ft.Lewis doing a turkey smoke off for t-day, we will be smoking approx. 50 birds with 5 other teams. We will supply all the potato salad, maccaroni salad, stuffing, greek salad, Ham, yams w/ mellows, green beans, baked beans, ranch beans, vegitarien beans, full roasted...
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    Store bought rubs

    Did ya'll know that most rubs you buy in retail stores are the lowest grade of spice you can buy? Most rubs are graded in the retail and industrial area on a K scale, from between .05 to 3.8 . Most retail rubs are around .05 to .07 on the K scale due to all the by-products and MSG's if any...
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    Mix ratio for rub?

    I can give you rub ratios if you can tell me how many ribs youre going to smoke at any given time...
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    Help with salmon...

    Let me ask, what are you looking to do with the salmon? I understand that you want to smoke it, but what kind of wood do you want to use? And what type of brine are you looking for? Sweet, Salty, what?
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    X-mas cards for our troops

    I and my wife send out approx 2000 + cards during the holidays to the troops overseas, and some of the replies we get are truely heart breaking. As a former member of the US ARMY and my wife reciently retiring we both know what it means to recieve cards from people who are just proud to be able...
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    beef rib roast

    1 Prime rib 2 to 3 pounds Seasoning to your taste, we use salt and pepper to taste with a 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne Let your rib roast come to room temprature. Combine the salt, pepper and the cayenne and sprinkle the roast with the rub. Set up your smoker or pit for indirect heat. Use wood...
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    Brisket Issues

    If I can suggest, this is how we Que or Briskets: Set up your smoker or gas grill for indirect heat with a water pan. Use wood chips, chunks, or logs, and keep up a good level of smoke. Maintain a temperature of between 210F and 250F. Place the brisket in the smoker, as far from the heat...
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    Cooking background/training

    Well as for me I dont know where to put myself, growing up after parents divorced my mom would teach home economics to high school kids and teach them how to cook, bake, grill and keep from starving. As time went on I learned from her, being part Italian its hard not to , learn somethings. Then...
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    smoking ribs

    Not to ruffle the feathers, but isnt smoking permeation to acheive the smoke ring critical within the first 2 to 3 hours if not using the foil method? From what I ve always been taught and seen that as the ribs start to get the tough skin as they get qued that its difficult for the smoke to...
  12. down yonder bbq

    Life is hard

    Welcome to the SMF, lots of good information on the site
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    Welcome

    Yeah welcome to all the new folks, Keep Smoking and remember 7/24/365 if youre not thinking about this always then something is wrong
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    building a new smoker

    That looks like a killer project, Ive built quite a few smoker pits, and what you'll run into is ways to build the ultimate smoker, good is never good enough. When you build one its like a drug habbit, you'll want to do another, and another, and another. It is an addictive and expensive habbit.
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    Cooking Pellets?

    Ok now Im going to disagree with the last thread, I use pellets for most of the smoking I do and have never had a problem with diminished smoke. I get more smoke from pellets and feel I get better taste from it. Now the only problem I do run into is that pellets create a large dose of heat, most...
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    Thanksgiving turkey

    Not saying that turkey and ham are over rated but after years of it we needed a change so this year its: Turduken, alligator and squrrill gumbo. We had this in Baton Rouge one year and man talk about killer on the pit, do it once and you'll never go back.....
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    Canning barbeque sauce??

    I dont know of Jeff's sauce but if it requires using fresh tomato base or paste from a can becareful due to the acid content, if you can use ketchup and after you make your batch of sauce make sure you have clean sterilized jars or glass bottles. After putting in the sauce to the bottle and...
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    How did you come up with your screen name?

    Being from down south Texas, we used to ask for directions and the old timers would always say Down Yonder A Ways when describing a distance. So we moved to Washington and when folks would ask how far something is, we would just say Down Yonder Aways. So it seemed like a good name to call the...
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    You know you have it bad when...

    Ive had that thought many times myself of wanting to turn a gun safe into a smoker and I will be doing it here very soon, so I'll be another one of the sick individuals right by you.......
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