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  1. whitegardens

    Simple smoked trout

    Cleaning out the freezer. Wild caught trout from Southern Missouri. Given to me by an in-law. Smoking at 200*. No seasoning, just threw them on. Goal is to hit 145*.
  2. whitegardens

    First cheese run on new build

    Started at 10:30am, one hour in. Doing Sam's choice string cheese from Wal Mart. This is my first run cold smoking on my new build and I always appreciate the forgiveness of string cheese. After a little struggle on startup, now maintaining 85* with the smoke generator creating most of the...
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    Smoking salt question..

    Did a run at Christmas for gifts. Used a fine granual Himalayan salt. Smelled great in the jars, but doesn't seem to add any smoky flavor.. What wood do you use, fine or large granual, and do you hot or cold smoke. Thanks for any input!
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    Water pan or no water pan for turkey?

    Need some advice. Doing a 22 lb turkey tomorrow that was fresh from local farm. Brined for 48 hours. Going into the smoking process, do you suggest using or not using water pans to increase humidity? I've been researching and haven't gotten a definitive answer. I'm thinking at minimum to...
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    Need thermocouple help on new build

    I was contemplating running 2 thermocouples making a thermopile. Would this be overkill? Otherwise I'm just going to use 1. And, if you were to use 2, where would you position them? Thanks in advance!
  6. whitegardens

    Been a while! New Electric Build!

    Been a long time since I have posted in the forum. Thought I would share my new electric smoker build. I currently use a MES analog that was heavily modified. I ended up building a pid controller to get the utmost control. It was a separate box with a plug for versatility. This thing has...
  7. whitegardens

    Cold Smoking With Soldering Iron, Complete With Photos

    My main goal in joining this forum was to submit a good synopsis of using a soldering iron for cold smoking. Through my searches on the subject, it seemed like articles were incomplete, not too informative, or didn't have enough pictures. So I thought I would show, and explain how I did it...
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    Good Day Gentleman!

    Hi Guys, My Name Is Nick I just joined as I want to do a quality thread or posting on my Soldering Iron mod for Cold Smoking. During my searches on the subject, I never found a good article really diving into the subject. Also, if anyone needs any input from my PID controller mod, I would...
  9. whitegardens

    Good Day Gentleman!

    My name is Nick and I'm located in Central Illinois. I got interested in smoking meat the last couple of years after having a debacle with an unfrozen turkey that was supposed to go into the fryer. Well, we had buy a replacement turkey and so I borrowed a gas smoker to cook the extra one...
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