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  1. mcmelik

    1st attempt at venison pastrami

    I finally got around to making some pastrami out of some deer roast from last season's hunt and I can tell you that it was well worth the wait. I used Cowgirl's recipe for the most part. Except I made the mistake in thinking that I could go to the store and buy some Juniper berries. I don't know...
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    Help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I just finished my freezer build. I was seasoning it tonight and and had everything going great and all of a sudden my PID box started smoking. I got it unpugged as fast as possible and took the top off and my solid state relay was toast. Nothing left at all. It had been running for about an...
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    Just got a freezer need some advise

    I just picked up a nice philco freezer from a friend and am going to make it into a smoker. I have it gutted and I have some holes to fill inside the porcelain coated freezer box. The inside of the door is plastic so I am planning on removing it and repalcing it with some steel. My question...
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    apple pie and chicken fajita fatties plus lots of other stuff heavy with QVue

    We had a small little gathering this weekend. I did an apple pie fatty and a chicken fajita fatty with the bacon weave. Plus 40 pounds of chicken wings. 25 pounds of ABT's.And some of the other guys brought about 45 ponds of babybacks. And another party goer did about 25 pounds of crawdads in a...
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    some old fashioned dogs and fresh brats with QVUE

    Well I finally got around to makeing some Curly's old fashioned weiners this past weekend. I made a few mistakes but it was my first try at it so what can you expect. My first goof up was I made the whole 25 pound batch and didn't have enough room to fit them all on my CGSP so I had to borrow a...
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    apple brined 4th of july Turk

    Whipped up a few vittle's for the clan this weekend and here is how I did my Turkey. This is the apple brine recipe that I got out of a Taste of Home cookbook of the wife's a couple of years ago. 2 quarts of unsweetend apple juice 2 1/2 cups brown sugar 1 cup kosher salt ( omit if the bird is...
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    another 4th of July smoke

    Happy 4th of July to everyone. We had a mega smoke going on this year. I mad 2 fatties. a 15 puond turkey some armadillo eggs and a few ABT's. My camping buddies made some of Dutch's beans, 2 pork loins a fatty. After an inch of rain on Fiday night and a nice steady drizzle most of the morning...
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    First attempt of Venison Bacon with Q

    I have been wanting to make some Venison Bacon the first time I read MossyMo's post and am finally getting around to it today. I got my new Maveric ET-73 for fathers day a little early so I just had to smoke something. I started out with 13 pounds of 85% lean pork trim (it's about 10 cents a...
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    deer bacon question

    I have a question about making deer bacon? I just got my order in from Curly's. I ordered deer bacon, Brats and old fashioned wiener seasonings. The deer bacon makes 25 pounds and is suppose to be 2 inches thick. Do you make 2 or 3 pans of it or do you just throw it all in one pan and make a big...
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    3 Fatties with Q view

    I am finally getting around to posting these Fatties that I made a couple of weeks ago to teach my neighbor how to make them. I made a Rueben with kraut swiss cheese and corned beef. And one with fried morel mushrooms steamed asparagus parmesian and mozerella. My neighbor came over with some...
  11. mcmelik

    A BIG !!!!! Thank You to all

    This past weekend I went camping with some friends and brought along my CGSP that I did all the mods to for a test run. I put in a baffle,tuning plates 2 new thermomtersat grate level and an expanded metal fire box grate along with the 3 inch smoke stack all ideas that I got from...
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    Salt lick BBQ sauce

    Does anyone have a close recipe to the BBQ sauce that they use at the Salt Lick in Austin Texas?? My old boss was from there and that was his favorite BBQ joint in Austin. I have never been there but he used to order thier stuff to get a taste of home. Thier sauce in excellent and I would like...
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    4 Fatties with Qview

    Some friends and I got together for the first camping trip of the year this past weekend so I decided it would be a good time to work on my Fattie making skills. I had only made one before this and it is kind of addicting. And I thought I would turn my buddies on to this new taste treat. First I...
  14. mcmelik

    New here from Iowa

    My name is Mark I am from Aurelia Iowa. I have been smoking for many years all self tought never knowing if I was doing things right or wrong but the end results always seem to work out for me. The way I see it is that you can never get enough good advise from the seasoned vets. So I am looking...
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