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Awwww!Man. Smoke the cheese and when it comes out of the smoker taste it and then the next day taste it. You will find that it is delightful every single day from now until new years.
I have found that flatten and fold is the most efficient method. Dump the mince onto the table and flatten it and spread half of the spice mix on half of the mince and fold the seasoned half over the other and flatten and spread the rest of the seasoning and fold and flatten again from left to...
I have two scales; one is for weights up to 8 kilograms and will get down to plus or minus one gram the other is a precision laboratory balance that will weigh up to 120 grams and down to very small fractions of a gram. . 8 kilos is almost 18 pounds and that is approaching the limits of my...
If you just keep the charcoal fire confined to one end and add wood chunks to the charcoal fire you will get all the smoke you need. Just fire it up and try it.
The thermostat is a bimetal click on click off type devise and probably the right hand rotation raises the temperature or it may be a bulb and capillary tube and bellows but the adjustment screw still changes the set point. Make a small change and check then make another change if it is needed.
If you remove the control knob the shaft should be hollow and a long skinny screwdriver will find an adjustment screw at the bottom of the shaft hole a quarter turn will change the temperature about 25 degrees but I can't recall if left- right= up-down.
Practically all of my smoking is cold smoking. But in truth cold smoking today is just flavoring cured meat with smoke. 75 years ago and longer it was the method for long term meat preservation and involved a long period of drying. It is valid to smoke meat and sausage with cold smoke nd finish...