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  1. bigboysmokehous

    Whole hog question

    Good morning folks. Question for you guys that do whole hogs. I have an upcoming party here in Wisconsin which is getting cold quicker then usual. I ordered two 100 lb hogs that I planned to put in my reverse flow smoker but with wind, rain and cold weather for Thursday. I have a ole hickory...
  2. bigboysmokehous

    Wood vs ole hickory

    Hi fellow smokers. I am in the process of building a food trailer and trying to decide what smoker to use. Being used to stick burners only and any restaurant I have gone to that have ole hickory or southern prides never seem to have a real smoker flavor. Has anyone had any experience with the...
  3. bigboysmokehous

    Smokehouse sizing help

    Hello fellow smokers- I am planning to build a brick bottoms and cedar top smokehouse. My question is the size of a house I should build. What I plan to smoke will be brats, summer sausage, bacon, hams and whatever else that might be made in side there. The last time I made bacon I did 90 pounds...
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    Cold Smoking bacon, some turning grey?

    So I cured 9 bellies using the same pops recipe I always have. Started smoking them 22 hours ago in the smoker and a while I know some of my unit gets more smoke then others I have some that have that great color I look for and some of them have a grey color to the top. It mostly happened if...
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    Beef fat fried buttermilk chicken

    I know this isn't a smoked meat but I thought I would share it. A couple years ago I seen an episode on Diners, Drive-in's and Dive's on the Foodnetwork. They were in a restaurant in D.C. which did fried chicken in beef fat. It has been a rainy, cold weak and this was comfort one oh one. The...
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    Bacon Meatloaf

    Being Sunday and I have always want to try to smoke meatloaf after seeing it on here I thought why not! Put it on the smoker at 250 and now the waiting....
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    First time cold smoking bacon Q/View, Jerk seasoning?

    This will be my second time doing bacon but did it hot last time. With it being cold here in Wisconsin I am going to try cold smoking. Last night I prepped 30# of belly and put it into a modified pop's brine. I am leaving Saturday for Jamaica and returning just in time for this to be brined for...
  8. bigboysmokehous

    10 Turkeys Brining, 9 beers a cooling....

    What went from a guy asking me if I could smoke him a turkey for his family Thanksgiving dinner I decided to open it up to friends.. ended up with 10 turkeys, 10 racks of baby backs and 4 pork butts. It feels like 14 degrees outside with the wind chill and going to fire up the big pig here in...
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    Mountain sheep..anyone cooked?

    Hello fellow smokeaholics! A buddy of mine wants me to smoke a leg of sheep he got last year hunting. I have dealt with venison and elk but never sheep. Has anyone worked with this meat? Any ideas on how to smoke it? Any ideas would be awesome!!
  10. bigboysmokehous

    57 racks of baby backs and 2 pork butts QView

    57 racks of beautiful ribs! I found the limit of my rig and it sits at this or 60 racks with no pork butts. A co-worker's dad retired and she asked me to cook for them. Four hours of driving but this Q was amazing. I had a little old lady ask me for just a couple bones cause she didn't like...
  11. bigboysmokehous

    21 Spare Q View

    After volunteering to cook ribs for my class reunion I ended up making 21 racks of spare ribs. This was my first time doing St. Louis style and it certainly wasn't the prettiest cutting. I thought I was cutting down far enough but apparently not! My cheerleaders~ Long day...
  12. bigboysmokehous

    First time making bacon!

    After reading on here with all the different ways to cure bacon I decided to do the pop brine. I used 2/3 cups of sea salt instead of the full cup since we aren't huge salt eaters. I picked up a 10 pounds pork belly and sliced it into useable chunks for in a pot. After 16 days  I pulled it...
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    500 Gallon RF newbie build

    Morning Smoke fans! I am new the SMF and new the whole custom smoker design. I can tell you one thing for sure, I wish I would have found this site before I started to make a smoker. To give a little bit of a background I have been smoking on a little Walmart offset for about four years now...
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