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  1. Mitch’s bitchin kitchen

    Converting old freezer in pellet smoker

    I find it works best with my build to have the air intake at the bottom. Helps me keep the low temps for jerky and sausage. I’ve cooked a ton of ribs in mine in local competitions and have always kept vent open with no problems also.
  2. Mitch’s bitchin kitchen

    Hey Donny! How’d the fridge smoker turn out!?

    Hey Donny! How’d the fridge smoker turn out!?
  3. Mitch’s bitchin kitchen

    Here we go!

  4. Mitch’s bitchin kitchen

    Here we go!

    Hey looks like fun! I just made my first uds out of a barrel that had strawberries in it. I had the same looking liner. I tried the fire also it took the out side paint off the barrel but the red liner wasn’t all the way burnt out. I took the grinder to it and that seemed to work but was a lot...
  5. Mitch’s bitchin kitchen

    Converting old freezer in pellet smoker

    Got a sticker from a few buddies for Xmas! Been a fun winter smoking with this thing. I did a brisket and a turkey on it for thanksgiving. Been doing jerky, summer sausage, snack sticks. It been working great. Also bought myself a fire board thermometer for Xmas present to myself! Best...
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    Played hookie from work.

    Sounds perfect skipping work for smoking!:D Jealous.
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    Converting old freezer in pellet smoker

    Hey sonny thanks for the compliments! It was a blast to build and bring back to life!! The racks I found at my local menards. I think they where charbroil brand. They were a little too big for the build so I cut them to fit. I went to menards to grab one more but they put most of the bbq stuff...
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    What a great Smokey weekend!

    What a great Smokey weekend!
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    BDSkelly ~ Breakfast Sausage Grind.

    Hey bdskelly! I just got my butchered fresh hog back and have a bunch of ground pork left from the trimmings. Got up early today and followed the recipe for the sausage. This is awesome stuff, way better then most of the store bought seasonings!
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    Converting old freezer in pellet smoker

    I got my 4” chimney installed and all my racks in. I was finally ready to fire it up and season it! I seasoned it for 6 hours works amazingly! I started low to get smoke rolling the slowly up to 400 degrees! Holds temps really well with the insulation. I’m very happy with it. I did some...
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    Converting old freezer in pellet smoker

    Now I was ready for paint!! I was going to use a sprayer but was in a little crunch. I decided to use metallic spray paint and clear coat! Turned out nice metallic really looks good in the sun! Primer. Metallic black prepare for stripe All painted and clear coated! I was ready to...
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    Converting old freezer in pellet smoker

    Finally I was ready to put my inner shell back in for the last time! Got it bolt in and was ready to cut steel pieces for around the shell! The three holes in the bottom is my 1” vent holes. New metal bottom. Door back on. Had to fabricate up some metal for the door latch to make it latch...
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    Converting old freezer in pellet smoker

    Well now it was time to take it back apart to get the insulation in! It wasn’t much fun taking it all apart felt like I was going backwards. I used some rock wool insulation, rated for like 2000 degrees. Very easy to cut but itchy working with it Door insulation I measured and cut a piece of...
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    Converting old freezer in pellet smoker

    With all my body work done to the best of my patience! I paint the inside of the shell with rust stop paint too. I was so excited to get to the fun stuff and started to mock it up a little. I put the hopper through the hole I cut and bolted it up and it actually fit!! I also bought heat...
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    Converting old freezer in pellet smoker

    The top of the shell had some pretty big dents in it. I took out the hammer and started popping some of them out. It worked pretty good. Kinda hard to tell in the pictures. I got the dents out the best I could. I decided I would try to use some body filler to smooth it out. That was kinda a...
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    Converting old freezer in pellet smoker

    Well the next thing I did on the freezer was cut the bottom out. It had a hole in it and was raised up for the compressor. After I cut it out I cleaned all the rust up and painted the bottom with rust stop. I cut a new piece of 18 ga. To fix the hole. This was all on the out side shell. The...
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    Converting old freezer in pellet smoker

    Hey thanks shop was awesome during the smoker build. Spent a lot of my evenings in there! Well after what seemed like forever the rust was pretty much gone. The next project I decided I need to tackle was the back wall. The back wall was really bad from all the rust. It full of holes, not sure...
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    First Brisket

    Awesome looking!! I’m in the same boat for some reason I’ve been putting a brisket off now for quite a few years. I just bought a choice full packer brisket at sams it’s about 15#. Now I’m just making sure I get my plan all together, so many good ideas on here! Hope I can get it as juicy as yours!
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    Converting old freezer in pellet smoker

    I disassembled every and took out the old insulation as it was smelly and had been wet by the looks of. Then I got the grinder out and started the long long process of sanding it down! Was able to get it down to the bare metal which was what I was hoping for.
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    Converting old freezer in pellet smoker

    Thanks for the advice on the different ways to heat it. I considered going that way but liked the pellet smoker on my traeger and looking at others builds that used pellet hopper so I pulled the trigger on the smoke daddy! I also should’ve mentioned that the smoker is all done just sharing my...
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