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Last week I opened the grinder and stuffer I bought a month or so ago. I am incredibly happy with results. I went with a 70-30 pork to lamb mix and a very basic seasoning of salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, mustard, cumin, and red Chile powder. I basically used Bradley from...

My wife just bought me a Weber Master Touch 22" for my birthday. I am putting it together tonight. I have a OK Joe stick burner and a nice gas grill so this rounds out my out door kitchen plans. Doing some of our homegrown lamb steaks for dinner tomorrow. So excited!

This weekend past I bought a couple of Boston Butts for 2.79 a pound. One was 10 and a quarter pounds and the other a little over 11. I smoked the 10 pounder on Sunday and had a couple of little issues. I smoked at temos ranging from 240 to 280 on my OKJ Longhorn offset it until the internal...

The wife bought some baby back ribs and we have about a hundred pounds of ground beef in the freezer. It was determined I was smoking ribs and meatloaf with a side of Mac and cheese. Ribs were done with SPOG and a a maple bacon chipotle rub from Cabelas and the meatloaf is the one from Meat...

I am looking at building a direct heat smoker. I want something big enough to do a full size pig but not something huge. What are out opinions on good dimensions for this type of project? Is 3/16" plate thick enough? Does anyone have photos or plans of something they have built they are willing...

OI! M! G!! Started at 543am pulled off at 330pm. I ran the smoker at temps ranging between 240 and 280. My modified OK Joe Longhorn is holding those temps very well. About 6 and a half hours in, we hit 162-166 internal so I wrapped. I originally thought about doing a boat wrap but it just sorta...

I have a bunch of white oak and black walnut trees I am going to be culling out. I am already making my own splits and chunks so I thought it would be good to try out making my own charcoal. I have watched several YouTube’s but am wondering if anyone here has made their own and had any advice. I...

This is a mod not a build. I bought an Oklahoma Joe’s Longhorn 3-1 about a month ago for a very reasonable price. I felt and still feel it was a mixture of mediocre in two worlds. No really big enough smoker to do big smokes and the grill isn’t big enough to do more than a few burgers at a time...

I did some poor man’s burnt ends and a pork loin yesterday with smoked potatoes. The burnt ends were done SPOG style. I think I cut some too small and some too big. Just a couple were cut just right. The smalls over cooked and the bigs undeecooked and the just rights, well, they were just right...

I bought a pack of STL style porks this week and decided to smoke them today. I am on record as saying I am not a huge fan of ribs but I don’t mind them. My wife is a huge fan of ribs. Ok, I am a Mad Scientist follower so I decided to emulate his style of ribs. S&P, 225 for four hours, hour at...

I took today off from work as a just because day and decided early to do a chicken in the smoker. I had a successful pork loin so I am feeling a little froggy. I had a whole chicken in the refrigerator, so I seasoned it up with some S&P and planned to follow the Mad Scientist method of two hours...

I planning to do some pork ribs this weekend and stopped into the the local grill shop and the guy there recommended Heath Riles Butter Bath and Wrap for when I wrap the ribs. I had planned on doing a butter and honey mix but I am going to try this. I had to buy something, they offered me a beer...

I smoked my first smoke today. I did a 4+\- pound pork loin. I used a tub of brown sugar, coarse sea salt, black pepper, paprika, onion and garlic powder, ground mustard and turmeric. I use mustard as a binder. I had some oak that has been down for about two years and split them pretty fine. The...

Hey now. I am Dave and I live in SW Missouri. New to smoking but not new to out door cooking. I have experience in gas grilling, charcoal cooking and cooking over open fires. We raise chickens and lambs and swap with friends for beef. Next year I want to add some feeder pigs but I haven't got...