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    Smoked my 2nd batch of cheese,but it took seven hrs.to get any smokey taste..

    What was the ambient temp of the smoker? I've seen others say if it's too cold it wont absorb much smoke, too hot and it melts. I'm in Mass and doing my first batch tonight, others suggested turning on the smoker to warm it up, letting it cool slightly before throwing the cheese in so that's...
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    Smoking some Blue cheese and Swiss today. 24 degrees out. Perfect weather for a cold smoke!

    Apple wood smoked bleu cheese. sounds amazing, cant wait to try
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    second round of cheese. first batch awesome

    mmmm smoked beer is delicious! If you haven't tried it I recommend it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlenkerla I've had their Weizen and Urbock. Both very unique and tasty, if you ever come across it grab a bottle, or 2 or 3 lol. Once my friend gets his brewing situations established again im...
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    Last cheese smoke EVER!!!

    yum, looks good! I'm trying my first cold smoke tonight, got some colby, mozz, cheddar and habanero. Ill probly leave my water pan in empty as well, and if needed I'll throw in some bricks to absorb some heat. Food saver is on my list of toys to acquire, until then I'm going to wrap in parchment...
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    Bacon Cure without Sodium Nitrate

    That's an awesome point. The amount of health problems and food allergens has greatly increased in the last 30 years, probably a direct result form our diets and the way we process foods. Gluten/wheat allergies have skyrocketed and my theory is that it's directly related to when they started...
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    Bacon Cure without Sodium Nitrate

    Thank you for your help, I've seen several different curing methods. I'm not sure if the saltpeter is an older method or what. However I've had a hard time tracking down pork belly, stores here don't carry it, I had my chef try his sources and there's only one that sells it but only by the case...
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    Bacon Cure without Sodium Nitrate

    Yea, I've never used saltpeter in anything. I'm not sure where he got that recipe from but he's used it before. He went to CIA and has been a chef for years, he has cured his own meats and sausages, and has made prosciutto and lamb prosciutto. He does some smoking but it's not his area of...
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    Has The Economy Effected Your BBQ Decisions?

    The kitchen I work in gets regular reports on food cost and projected prices for produce, dairy and livestock. The cost of meats has a lot of different factors in play. Weather conditions are the biggest factor, a drought from two years ago is going to cause the prices in beef and pork to go up...
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    Masterbuilt xl help

    Agreed, the chip pan at the least needs to be foiled and raised up. The link to the mods page was very helpful to me. This is what I bought to hold my skillet I haven't tried this yet I'm still finishing my mods but another user suggested it. Looks nice and should raise the skillet up...
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    Rookie Question

    JFTX there's also a post on this forum I found very helpful with the masterbuilt XL smoker. Someone else mentioned using foil and raising the chip bowl, a cast 10-12" cast iron skillet should fit inside the chip bowl and you should be able to burn the chips properly. I found out that the bowl...
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    Bacon Cure without Sodium Nitrate

    The bacon brine recipe I got from my chef he uses saltpeter which is sodium nitrate or cure #2. I'm just learning about curing bacon and I've heard people using both types of cures. Im wondering if the type of cure is based on how long you brine it? Like if you brine for only a few days cure1...
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    Masterbuild XL Mods - Post your mods here!

    Nice door mod. I like the hinge on the side because I can crack it open, I put a gasket in because there was a lot of smoke leakage and the latch didn't hold the bottom very tight. I have a nice seal on it now though. I did paint the inside. The bottom was rusting, the sides were fine though. I...
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    Masterbuild XL Mods - Post your mods here!

    I love this set up. I. ordered the grilling wok others suggested, and the charbroil cover this week, and got a cast iron skillet. Next I'm getting the same smoke stack. Taking the smoker to my friends shop to really sand down the inside, I think I'm going to use high temp grill paint, or just a...
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    Masterbuild XL Mods - Post your mods here!

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    Masterbuild XL Mods - Post your mods here!

    Thats awesome! thank you! I'm ordering this right now on amazon, perfect like it should be made for the smoker.    Here are pictures of my wind shield, I'll also post the measurements if anyone would like to replicate this. It's made of some sort of composite plastic wood so it wont warp or...
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    Masterbuild XL Mods - Post your mods here!

    I love my masterbuilt smoker but I'm also working out some "bugs" this was my first season smoking and everything I made came out great, I only had a few small problems. - first problem I came across was with my flame blowing out if it was on low and too windy out. I had my dad build a wind...
  20. tamarockstar88

    Selling jerky

    Thanks Dog, I'm sure that I can find some way to do it, might take me more time than I originally thought. I've already learned a lot so that's good. my plan is to start selling to people I know and try to find out how to move up from there. I know people in the business so if I need a...
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