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  1. towtruck

    how clean do you keep your smoker?

    I clean my smoker and bbq like I clean my cast iron pans....knock anything that could mold off and burn everything else into carbon.
  2. towtruck

    Design help

    A little update on the smoker.....it has evolved into a split system where the fire box and cook chamber are split into two separate halves that can cook independently of each other. That solved the air flow problem over each end. I have smoked a bunch of meat so far and it all has done very...
  3. towtruck

    Design help

    Ribs came out tasting good and very moist. They are a little tougher than I like though. That toughness is from my pit temps not being high enough....first time use learning curve. The brisket is still in there and at five hours it was at 160* so I wrapped it in foil and put it back on the pit...
  4. towtruck

    Design help

    I bite the bullet today and for my first cook I tossed in four racks of ribs and a 12# brisket. Pretty big learning curve being the first time cooking on it. Already I am going to have to switch to lump charcoal just to get up to temp faster. My goal was to not have to add fuel during a 6 hour...
  5. towtruck

    Design help

    Well, it's done and smoking away......temps hold even for 6-8 hours on tests burns at 225 degrees. It's a double reverse flow center feed smoker. I can fit 8 racks of ribs in it and other meats will be tried too.
  6. towtruck

    California trip in the new year

    If for any reason you go east from San Francisco a little ways you have to stop at CJ's BBQ in Fairfield for their pork ribs. It's a complete hole in the wall joint with BBQ's in the parking lot but it's some of the finest bbq on the planet. Prepare for no AC when it's hot and drinks from an old...
  7. towtruck

    First Brisket

    I smoked several small brisket with good results. My first attempt at a large full packer proved difficult. I got the flat done correctly but the point suffered from low cooking temps. I know where I went wrong and will try again once my new smoker is finished and dialed in. Your pictures are...
  8. towtruck

    favorite thing to cook & why

    Baby backs are my number one. Tri tip is my second. The reason is my ribs are a favorite of all that eat them and the tri tip is my all time favorite hunk of meat to eat hot off the grill.
  9. towtruck

    First Brisket

    Looks good!
  10. towtruck

    Italian Night in the Relleno House

    Nice!
  11. towtruck

    Venting a smoker in a shed

    I'm liking that set up!
  12. towtruck

    Smoked Apple Roses

    Looking good!
  13. towtruck

    Design help

    I did a little test today and lit a fire in one end of the fire box and had the smoke travel the entire length of the 6' box then built a temporary transition from fire box to cook chamber and had the smoke run back the entire 6' out the other end of the top tube. It flowed pretty well and the...
  14. towtruck

    Design help

    A little background............I'm in the far northern reaches of California.....more a southern Oregon thing. Temps are not wild here and cooking in the winter when it's freezing out won't be happening anyway. I apologize for the vague drawings as I am used to building things in my head without...
  15. towtruck

    Design help

    Okay.....two pieces of 8" x 12" x 1/2" thick box tube. Each piece is 6' long. Fire box is bottom piece.. that box tube is on edge ( 8" wide 12" tall) On top of that tube is the cooking chamber tube and it's sideways (12" wide and 8" tall). They form a fat "T" shape looking from the end view...
  16. towtruck

    Design help

    You know I'm demented.......I'll get a rough drawing together.....
  17. towtruck

    Design help

    I have scrapped plans for the "h" design and I have been playing with this second idea a bit on paper. What I have come up with is this will end up basically being two 3' reverse flow smokers built back to back with a fire box under the cooking chamber. The material is 1/2" thick and if I stack...
  18. towtruck

    Classic Atomic Buffalo Turds

    We just picked a mess of those peppers off the garden yesterday......hmmmmm, might have to try this.
  19. towtruck

    Buying a whole side of beef vs. raising a calf?

    Raised my own for 15 years. Best quality that way in my opinion. We feed alfalfa and grass and then finished off with grain. Never had a bad cow. I had connections for hay. I could put one in the freezer for $2.50 a pound not counting gas to go get the hay. I lost my place to raise them so I...
  20. towtruck

    Southwestern Vegetable Medley

    Looking good as always Chili...........as always your food makes me hungry! and yes, it's the same towtruck you know;)
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