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  1. lav25

    Broken digital MES-30: Dial Conversion?

    Okay, this is exactly backwards to the other questions I've found here. I have a digital MES-30 with a busted digital control unit that I'd like to convert to an analog, dial driven unit. Why? Background. I live in Japan. I'm an American, long-term resident here. When I got this MES-30 digital...
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    Smoked Pork Shoulder and Baked Beans with QView

    Pulled pork will be on the menu tomorrow, but we're having it at the inlaws, so I've got to cook it today. I got a ~5lb pork shoulder, but thought that that would be a bit much (there are only 4 of us eating), so I split it into two. The one on the left was rubbed and ziplocked with something...
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    First attempt at biltong

    So when I decided to make jerky the other week, I saw a recipe for South African biltong here and decided to give that a shot. Big blocks of meat are hard to find around here, but my local restaurant supply store had tri-tip at what passes for a reasonable price in Japan, so I grabbed a couple...
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    Char Siu Pork Belly (Cherry Smoke)

    I love some good char siu (her in Japan pronounced "cha shew"), especially in a bowl of ramen. I've got my ideal dinner planned out, with gyoza (pot stickers) from Ohsho, ramen from Hanamichi, and fried rice from a little mom and pop place in my old neighborhood, but until then, I figured I'd...
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  5. lav25

    Smoked shawarma: Here's the plan

    It's Friday night where I am, and I've got a 1.6kg boneless lamb shoulder that I'm planning on putting in on Sunday, wanted to post up my plan and see if anyone sees any holes in it. I found a recipe for shawarma a while ago and the spice mix looks good: 2 tsp black peppercorns 5 cloves ½ tsp...
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    First Electric Baby Back Ribs with Q-View

    Got an MES-30 digital a couple of months ago and I am loving it. With my ECB, smoking used to be equal parts anticipation and dread, with eight hours of stressfully checking the temps every five minutes to make sure nothing was going wrong (in either direction), but electric... I know it's...
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    Smoked Pork...rump? With Q-View

    Hello all, some confusion as to what exactly I smoked due to linguistic and cultural barriers, but it sure tasted good. I'm an American living in Japan, only got into smoking in the last few years, so I didn't have a strong education on the various cuts of meat back when I was living where I...
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    First Fatty (Bacon Explosion) in my new MES.

    So I got a new MES 30 the other day, and decided that the safest thing to give it its first day out with would be a nice bacon explosion. There's nothing I'm doing here that others haven't done before, and with far more skill, so just look at this as a newbie post and be gentle :). No bacon in...
  9. lav25

    MES 30 in Japan: It works

    I hope this is the right place to post this, if not, could one of the mods be kind enough to put it in the proper spot. I'm writing this mostly to give answers to questions that I've been asking over the years. I'm an American living in Japan, got into smoking about five or six years ago, and...
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    Candied Bacon Spice Question

    Ok, so I've been making my own bacon on and off for a few years now. Easier said than done in an apartment in Japan, but I've got some pink salt cure, followed a couple of basic "dry" ziploc cure recipes, and used locally available "smoke wood" sawdust blocks for cold smoking in my ECB. But...
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    Smoking bacon safety question: Rind

    OK, possible problem here.  I cured some pork belly in a ziploc following this recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/homemade-bacon.html I didn't realize how much the skin (rind) looked like fat until I was about to put it on the smoker, so I removed the rind (after 9 days cure time), and...
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    First Bacon Attempt

    OK, so the bacon is going in the smoker in about half an hour.  It's cured in a couple of ziplocs in the fridge for the past nine days following this recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/homemade-bacon.html I wasn't able to get a five pound block, but I did get two 2-1/2 pound blocks, so...
  13. lav25

    Turkey* Smoked Stuffing?

    OK, I'm going to be smoking a turkey for the family around Christmas, and I just had a crazy idea that I'd like to check out for sanity/safety etc.  I smoke in an ECB, and when I do a turkey, I usually put water in the water pan (duh), but then I put a disposable aluminum foil roasting pan with...
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    Baby Back ribs-live Q-view

    Well, I haven't had the smoker out since Thanksgiving (I live in an apartment, in Japan, so even finding smokeable cuts of meat is a challenge), but I've got some vacation time today, so I'm smoking 4 racks of baby back ribs from The Meat Guy.  Two for tonight, and two are going into the fridge...
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    "Precooking" a turkey before smoking

    I'm going to be smoking a turkey this Thanksgiving, and so far, the largest poultry I've smoked has been pretty small (2 kilos/4-1/2 pound range).  This bird will be in the 10-12 pound range, so I'm looking at roughly 6 hours of cook time.  Unfortunately, that means the bird goes in the smoker...
  16. lav25

    Wood chips and ECB question: What did I do wrong?

    I've previously made myself an electric flower pot smoker, but it's pretty small, so last year I bought a Brinkmann Smoke 'n Grill (ECB) smoker, knowing full well the problems it has and some of the mods to fix those problems.  I was doing pretty well with my locally available "Smoke Wood"...
  17. lav25

    Newbie Smoked Christmas Chicken with Q-View

    So here in Japan, the traditional Christmas dinner is fried chicken thanks to a KFC ad campaign a few decades ago (Really.  Look it up if you don't believe me).  I decided to smoke a chicken instead, using my modded ECB in only it's third run (smoked a chicken back in November, did a small...
  18. lav25

    Early Thanksgiving Smoked Turkey with Q-View

    Hey all, I had an early Thanksgiving yesterday, thought I'd share.  Japan stubbornly refuses to celebrate US holidays, so I had to get things put together when the inlaws and friends could make it, so Thanksgiving came on November 11th this year. This was my first ever smoked turkey, as well as...
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    Wood chips: foil pack or loose sprinkle?

    Sorry if this is the wrong place, but I'm just starting to work on charcoal smoking (ECB), and I've got a question about using wood chips for smoke:  Is it better (in an ECB) to A) put my wood chips into a little foil packet with holes poked into it, or B) sprinkle them loosely over the...
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    Turkey Plans: Any holes?

    I'm going to try and smoke my first turkey this weekend for Thanksgiving (no Thanksgiving holiday here in Japan, so we have it when the family and  friends have a clear schedule).  I've been doing a lot of reading, smoked a chicken a couple weeks ago for practice which worked out...ok, I guess...
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