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    First dry age

    Hello everyone. So I have just completed my first run at dry aging. I did half of a beef loin. I used Umai dry bag. It was a little bit tricky to get sealed, but I got it. I stored the loin in my fridge for one month. It shrank a fair amount as expected and firmed up nicely. The smell when I...
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    First time bacon

    Hello everyone. My first attempt at making bacon. I will get to the details, but here's where I am... 9 days curing, flipping daily. Virtually no liquid in the bags. Pulled them out, cut a couple strips and fried them. They were a bit too thick. They didn't crisp like they should. They didn't...
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    Design help

    I picked up a project that the guy couldn't finish now I'm in a design pickle. In the pix you can see a Sharpie box drawn on the tank (I added the white lines), that is supposed to be where the smoke will enter the foodbox. The exhaust stacks will be on both sides of the barrel about 1/3 up from...
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    wood

    So I have a bunch of maple wood that I got from a friend, half of it has been hollowed out by bugs. I haven't seen any bugs since getting the wood. Is it still OK to use in my wood smoker?
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    WOOHOO!!! My first pork butt

    Well, today I had my hand at a 8lb butt. This was my first (real) smoke session and after a long trial with my smoker (I built it) I attempted the ever longed smoked pork butt. I had a dry rub that I had bought that I wasn't gonna use, but after looking at the ingredients and the ingredients of...
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    Acronyms?

    Somewhere around here, I have seen a couple different posts that talked about the acronyms that are used. However, I cannot find any of those posts. Can anyone here post the links to them? One of them I really liked because the definitions were on a comedic side, and that made me laugh when I...
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    Help needed on first smoker build

    Hello everyone, I have just built an offset smoker and I have a few questions. I guess the big question is; Is there a relationship in size between the smoke box and the cook box? My cook box is a 55gal barrel and the burn box is prolly a 5gal barrel. I seem to be having a big problem keeping a...
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    Western NY

    I'm from Lockport NY and new to smoking so I'm trying to find a place to get good wood and what choices are best. Anyone from the Western NY area that can show me the fire?
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    First time smoker

    Hello everyone. I'm Tom and I live in Western NY where our summers are comfortable, and our winters can be quite, well, not happy, down right cold-n-snow filled. I am not new to BBQ, but I am a first timer with smokers. I just built my first smoker which I is a sideways barrel smoker similar to...
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