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  1. ahakohda

    Cracked pepper chicken

    To escape heat of the city my wife and I went to a quiet city park by the ocean. While there I played with Akorn Jr smoker nailing down a process of keeping it in a smoking range temperature wise. Temp was between 250 and 275. Experiment material was a chicken covered in leftovers of my...
  2. ahakohda

    Curing question

    22 degrees refers to brine strength. Not temperature.
  3. ahakohda

    Curing question

    you will be laughing but this recipe is exactly from his book. And time is as shown 10 hours.
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    Curing question

    Yeah curing time raised a red flag for me too. Especially for chicken.
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    Curing question

    I mean I did my fair share curing both dry and brine using this calculator. All those required long curing time. Maybe they use stronger concentration to shorten curing time? I’m just trying to verify... I was thinking since cure 1 is a mix of salt and nitrite only 6gram of nitrites are going...
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    Curing question

    I got a book about meat curing and looking for clarification. Amount of cure #1 to add is 85g. Too much? Time to cure 10 hrs. Too little? They advise to smoke it afterwards for 5 hours in 130F slowly rising to 165-170 until internal 154F.
  7. ahakohda

    Bread making machine is kinda fun.

    Mine raised it head in 2011 with glucose near 400. But ever since I am managing it with strict diet. Off the meds as of now. I let myself go every two years. Than year of strict diet and so on.
  8. ahakohda

    Bread making machine is kinda fun.

    And that fresh baked bread smell all over the house....))))
  9. ahakohda

    Fire management

    I tried to google it but can’t find exact answer. Looked few videos on fire management In offset smoker like okj highland. Basically bed of briquettes and wood logs on top. My question is can I substitute logs with large chunks of lump coals? I’m sure someone here must’ve tried it already...
  10. ahakohda

    Bread making machine is kinda fun.

    Last night unpacked our new bread machine. So effortless. So good.
  11. ahakohda

    Chopped Ham Kielbasa

    I decided to post it here since it’s not smoked or bbq’d. Original name for it is Ветчинорубленная колбаса. For those who likes to Google. 4 pounds of pork neck cut into 1 inch cubes. Cured 48 hours with cure#1 and salt according to cure calculator. After 48 hrs Added 2 Tbs of nutmeg and...
  12. ahakohda

    Humidity damage question

    Looking at pellet smokers (in particular Pit Boss Austin XL 1000 sq ). My main concern is how do they withstand being outside in high humidity. Especially all the digital parts. I got my charcoal smokers stored outside during winters. Under roof but not in temperature/humidity controlled...
  13. ahakohda

    New Dyna-Glo vertical offset smoker

    I keep water box above fire box. Just place it on lower shelf
  14. ahakohda

    New Dyna-Glo vertical offset smoker

    From my experience with wide body. Doing minion method and playing with firebox intake and top exhaust I can not get it higher than 170-180. No modifications inside or out. Best way so far was dumping 3/4 lit up briquettes and place few large charcoal on top. Let it go a little and start...
  15. ahakohda

    New Dyna-Glo vertical offset smoker

    Did some smoking past two days using Wide body. Lump charcoal and mix of apple and hickory wood. Once again it reminded me that it’s a great smoker but for short runs. I still prefer WSM for ribs. Duck Duck breasts and pork belly Chickens
  16. ahakohda

    Two exciting days of smoking

    Yes it’s at my summer hideout in Moscow, Pa.
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    Two exciting days of smoking

    First day was a ribs day. Short ribs brushed with Worcestershire sauce and sprinkled with kosher salt and cracked black pepper. And pork spareribs smoked using franklin’s bbq YouTube video as a guidance. Short ribs by ahakohda posted May 12, 2018 at 11:03 AM Spareribs by ahakohda posted May 12...
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