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    Beef prices

    From last year in November, a Costco brisket was going for $3.49/#, now???
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    Pork Butt

    55 gallon drum, had to add a 2nd top with rock wool insulation, as the fire box was too small for that volume of cooking space, but it's working pretty well in the warmer temps. I'm at 6,500' in northern New Mexico in a small town, so there's not as much oxygen to burn with here for making...
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    Pork Butt

    1st time this season with last years fall project, the home made smoker, a nice 8# pork butt. Nice to have a higher temperature outside, finally. Winter is gong away now & spring's just around the corner in northern New Mexico. It got into the 70's yesterday, so cooking was in order for Sunday...
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    Eclipse. The 1000 gallon pit by The pit Smoker

    Dude, that's quite a smoker, hope your business goes well & you make some good meat for the people in your area. There's always room for good food in any town if it's cooked right & tasty. Want to see what you come up with for a store front next!
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    55 gallon smoker in the works

    Took 9 hours to smoke both & they're resting now in the cooler. Internal temps were right at 197f when we pulled them & wrapped them in 2 layers of butcher paper. Thanks for the many good ideas from this site, I guess I got lucky this time...
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    55 gallon smoker in the works

    OK, here's some smoke & pork butts, on sale this week at $.89 a pound. Got a double, 8# each, so we're doing both.
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    55 gallon smoker in the works

    Finally smoked our first meat, a small pork butt (about 6#). It went for 8 hours at "about" 250 - 150 & 225, due to a visit from my son, a trip to the shooting range & not being there the whole time to watch temperature. I know I should have done a better job of keeping an eye on things, but...
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    Thank you Vets!

    My son in the Middle East & my dad (beginning of WWII). Thanks for the sacrifices you have all made for our nation.
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    55 gallon smoker in the works

    OK, it worked! Burning less fuel, making more heat in the smoker and keeping it longer on a colder day. The insulation was the right way to do things, the liner on the bottom works & it's much better than it was. Even with the large volume & cooler temps it's greatly improved (about 37% better...
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    55 gallon smoker in the works

    JD07, I appreciate your concern. That's why I'm not smoking anything yet but the smoker itself. Not interested in wasting a good hunk of meat, so I'll keep trying to make this thing work. If I can't get the temperature correct, I won't use it now & will rework it until it does. I re-ran the...
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    55 gallon smoker in the works

    Sunday's smoke adventure wasn't so good. The temperature had dropped a fair amount from Saturday afternoon & I had trouble getting up to a decent temperature. Glad I was just experimenting, as it didn't work very well this time. I was only able to maintain a steady temperature of about 175...
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    55 gallon smoker in the works

    Quick report, it's working pretty well! Started with some apple twigs & charcoal to get things moving, then waited a bit & added more wood for more smoke. Temperature seems fairly even, but the exhaust stack end is a bit warmer. Inside is getting a nice, smoky black finish now & I'm happy with...
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    55 gallon smoker in the works

    Looks like I'll finally start heating & seasoning it a bit today. I got the casters located & placed yesterday, attached the fire box, caulked & roped the joints into the oven & basically tied up a few loose ends. I want to attach a steering grip on the caster end for moving it around & add a...
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    55 gallon smoker in the works

    Was out of town with our son last week (back from his 5th deployment to the Middle East, thankfully) so it's been a few days since I've posted to the thread. Got a couple of wheels & a fire box when we got back, started back up again on some welding & cutting. Started with setting up the fire...
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    Metal drum, toluene storage, for cooking

    Finally spoke with a chemistry guy at a large chemical supplier. He said what I figured, don't use the drum for a smoker (liability issues if he had said otherwise). That having been said, he saiid they use steam to purge large tanker trucks to clean the interior of residual solvents with...
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    55 gallon smoker in the works

    Follow-up on a metal toluene container for use on BBQ smoking. Another "professional" dealing with these containers said it was the current industry standard to use a steam cleaner for purging this type of container. The large trucks, which carry industrial solvents, are all cleaned for...
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    55 gallon smoker in the works

    It was a good idea, but a bad execution on my part. I used some carnuba wax to act as the release agent on the tape, but evidently the solvents in silicone were able to eat through the wax & bond pretty well to the tape. Had to use a series of small wedges to pry the lid ope & here was the...
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    Metal drum, toluene storage, for cooking

    daveomak.fs, thanks for posting this pdf. I has seen a similar one, but it didn't address the issue with an empty, purged vessel. Disposal of a container containing some residual liquid would have been interesting to cut apart, as it would have flashed & exploded at the first spark from the...
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    55 gallon smoker in the works

    I decided to alter the gasket a bit since the fit isn't good enough to suite me. Basically, I've applied a layer of masking tape on the bottom frame, used paste wax for a mold release on the tape & then used high-temp silicone for a secondary layer, which has squeezed into the fiber gasket...
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    Metal drum, toluene storage, for cooking

    Bytor, many thanks for your input. It's already cut at this point, but I did let it sit for quite a while this summer with it open to the air & hot sun (drum is black, so absolutely no solvent left prior to cutting). I'm thinking it will still need a scrubbing for the steel grills I made...
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