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Fat guy smokin' in WNC
Welcome from Pinnacle, North Carolina. We're about 20-25 minutes north of downtown Winston-Salem. Where are you? -
What size expanded metal do most use for offset smoker smoke chamber grates?
Flat is a lot easier to season and clean. And it's easier to weld. 3/4" #9 is by far the most common choice. Any steel supply house will either stock or have access to flattened expanded metal. And it is pretty common on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist around here.- LanceR
- Post #6
- Forum: Blowing Smoke Around the Smoker.
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Supply Run
Bill, we buy 5/1 (5 to the pound) Nathan's all beef hot dogs at the local Restaurant Depot. We prefer them to Hoffman's, Sahlen's from over Buffalo way or anything we've found in the south. We had a 90 acre farm between Auburn and Skaneateles for 20+ years and sold it in 2017 to move full time...- LanceR
- Post #24
- Forum: Blowing Smoke Around the Smoker.
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Supply Run
Well, you could have swung by Syracuse Casings for some hog or sheep casings, gone to European Specialties in the Westvale Plaza for some good Eastern European sausages (try the kabanosy and szynkowa) or some of their smoked fish, cured meats, spectacular breads, etc. Or you could have stopped...- LanceR
- Post #22
- Forum: Blowing Smoke Around the Smoker.
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Hello from North Carolina!
One technique for wet curing is to submerge the product in a container of brine and keep it submerged with a bag of brine. That way if the bag breaks it will maintain the strength of the brine. -
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Cast Iron square skillet ID?
Absolutely a Wagner. And most likely a later production piece. Here's one I have that's awaiting restoration. Compared with my earlier Wagner pans and my older Griswold, Lodge and Birmingham Stove and Range (AKA: BSR) pans and some of my older unmarked and un-attributable pans (and Dutch...- LanceR
- Post #8
- Forum: Blowing Smoke Around the Smoker.
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Alternative to filling propane tank with water ?
Just turn the tank upside down. After seeing "Mayberry" in your forum name I asked about your location as we live in the land of Andy Griffith in Pinnacle, NC. We're four miles from Pilot Mountain (AKA: Mount Pilot) and a few more miles from Mount Airy, NC, (AKA: Mayberry). If you'd have...- LanceR
- Post #13
- Forum: Smoker Builds
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Alternative to filling propane tank with water ?
@mayberrysmoke , I've always had the luxury of leaving them for an extended time (sometimes years...) with all the bungs and fittings removed but have still filled them with water and a good dose of Dawn dish washing liquid and let them soak for a week or two before cutting them. I've never had...- LanceR
- Post #11
- Forum: Smoker Builds
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Butt Sale PSA
I'm in Pinnacle, North Carolina about a half hour north of Winston-Salem. They're on sale here. My only issue with them is that they are usually overly trimmed with very little if any fat cap so they are pretty lean for most sausage. But with that said, although I have 3-4 butts in the...- LanceR
- Post #5
- Forum: Blowing Smoke Around the Smoker.
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Where in NC are you hailing from?
@smokedsauces and @MickVick, welcome from Pinnacle, NC.- LanceR
- Post #232
- Forum: North Carolina Members
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Is there a trick to snack sticks?
Per the USDA, ground pork and beef are good at room temps for 2 hours and for 1 hour at or above 90* F. I wouldn't try that with a fish or poultry sausage, though. And I strongly suspect that due to using salt and cure the time limit would increase a good bit although I couldn't say by how... -
Hakka Buffalo Chopper
@indaswamp, which make and model chopper do you have? I have no personal knowledge of the Hakka but with the Hobarts, if you remove the lid, cutter head and bowl it makes them a lot easier to move around both weight-wise and bulk-wise. Depending on your situation a couple of things that can... -
Hakka Buffalo Chopper
The current price of a 14" Hobart Buffalo Chopper is north of $10K and an 18" one is north of $13K so at around $1500 through the door this is a truly great price point. We have both the 14" Model 84145 and 18" Hobart Model 84181 bowl choppers and they really are game changers for a lot of... -
New-to-me Gander Mountain 15 lb stuffer. EDIT: It's not a Cabela's stuffer.....
Happily, no. What was on the can and piston did seem to be partly vegetable oil residue and partly just not thorough enough cleaning. Even the outside of the can was smudged and tacky and needed a good bit of scrubbing to clean up. I have spray silicone and food safe silicone grease for the... -
(Sweet) Italian Sausage
I'm not near my recipe logbook to offer a hard number but agree that the recipe stated in the OP is low on fennel. And add me to the crew that uses fennel and (usually) some anise. I don't remember using caraway in Italian sausage but it's at least a year since I made any so that could just be... -
New-to-me Gander Mountain 15 lb stuffer. EDIT: It's not a Cabela's stuffer.....
I've used a 5 lb LEM stuffer for years and lately I've been checking Marketplace and craigslist off and on for a bigger stuffer. Today I spotted a newly listed 15 lb Cabelas Gander Mountain stuffer and bought it for around 1/3 of the current cost of a new basic 15 lb LEM stuffer. It came with... -
New Toy to Play with....Bowl Chopper!
Good morning, Tim and welcome to the site. The 8141 is a heavy beast with a lot of heavy cast iron (cast steel?) parts and generally has a tinned cast iron bowl. The cataloged net weight of the machine is 178 pounds so it you won't have the option for carrying it up stairs. If you remove the...- LanceR
- Post #34
- Forum: Slicers, Grinders, Tools, Equipment
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23 Quart Presto 01781 Pressure Canner Cooker $93 on both Amazon and Walmart.com
I'm not real sure if this is the place to post this but.... The 23 Qt Presto pressure canner/cooker is currently $93 on both Walmart 's and Amazon's websites. Search "Presto 01781 Pressure Canner" on either site and you'll find it. Best regards,
