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i did the same ,mine connects to the 22mm ball valve and that works fine but this was the prototype i made using a pound shop container,a pid ,a fan, a power switch and a fan isolation switch
i am re building it as i want to control 2 uds smokers in competition so i am getting another pid...
weber are just cashing in on the fact that people have been building "mini wsm's" for years using tamale pots on the weber smokey joe mini bbq's,they are used quite a lot by "tailgate" bbqers. apparently a very good and economical smoker, i have always wanted to build one but could never find...
hi baz senior
your pid should have an auto learn feature,when i use mine i bring the uds almost up to cook temp first then i set up the pid and that is about it .i did try to set up the P the I and the D settings as per the instructions that i got with the controller but they didn't work too...
hi baz senior
what are you curing ?if you are wet curing or curing something that is in the end being cooked then you need sodium NITRITE at 6.25% to 93.75% table salt also known as prague powder (curing salt) #1 if you are doing air dried hams or salami's etc you need a mix with NITRATE in...
thanks danny
i feel better getting that off my chest lol
i stopped in the new motorway services on the M 25 near junction 10 they had a place doing pulled pork, it was swimming in watery liquid and just looked like pulled roast pork to me they then topped it with some cheapo bbq sauce, i felt...
typical of these big restaurant chains trying to get into american style bbq because of the extra popularity due to it being aired on tv with the likes of man v food ,and diners drive ins and dives etc but they do nothing about researching the true taste of smoked pulled pork ,just interested in...
hi mark
its not my idea i am just making my own version of what is commercially available (bbq guru etc) they are quite reasonably priced if you live in the states but add shipping and taxes etc they are not so cheap !!! but what you see is a prototype and i will be re-modifying it into a dual...
hi danny
just to clarify a little i am a retired catering equipment engineer and i made a temperature controller to keep my ugly drum at a stable temperature without having to tend it all the time (overnight cooks) basically it has a probe in the smoker and when the smoker needs to get hotter...
hi guys
how nice it is to have a uk based group to the SMF
i built my ugly drum smoker during the winter 2012-2013 and i have been using it since april
i have smoked pulled pork,chicken,ribs and fatties of various meats and fillings,i am yet to do brisket as it is a very expensive cut to buy...
hi wade
maybe but probably 3 x the price ,i did email maverick about a month or so ago asking if there will be a uk stockist but i have not had a reply
just thought i would put it in the blowing smoke as well as meat thermometers being from england and hearing about it on a british bbq website i thought you guys would have already known about it !!! i am just a bit amazed that i had some hot off the press news and i got a bit excited lol
my 732 came with a meat probe and a smoker probe the 733 has hybrid ones and you can use it to monitor 2 different smokers or 2 meats or a smoker and meat also the probe reads a much lower temperature as i have had my 732 not show meat temp if the meat is very cold straight from the fridge also...
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