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  1. johna

    BPS UDS Build with Photos and Lessons Learned

    I think I have solved my temp control issues. So far i have smoked multiple shoulders, chuck roasts and spare ribs, with some chicken and sausage too. I've had troubles keeping the temp even below 300, much less 250. I have been using lump charcoal, mostly Royal Oak and Rockwood. I have been...
  2. johna

    Naan bread pizza two ways

    If you were just dying for a new hobby there's a book that tells you how to make your own outdoor pizza oven at home, with using some very simple materials like sand. It's the kind where you build a fire in one side and slide the pizza into, ie brick fired pizza. I don't have the book nearby...
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    Easter pork butt on the UDS with new-to-me Rockwood Charcoal

    The wife has been kind of ambivalent on the spiral cut hams at Easter the last few years so this year I suggested I smoke a butt on the new UDS I have been breaking in this spring. She agreed so I set it up. I took an 8lb bone in butt and dry marinated it the night before with a rub that I...
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  4. johna

    BPS UDS Build with Photos and Lessons Learned

    Here the chuck roast mid smoke. I only had full size steamer pans so it looks a little funny . Actually it's a pretty bad picture... I have some country ribs on right now and more sausages go in there in an hour.
  5. johna

    BPS UDS Build with Photos and Lessons Learned

    So far I've done chicken , Italian sausage, cold smoked cheese and Chuck roast. The chuck turned out the best but it's probably because I watched it like a hawk. I have had trouble holding temp below 250 the whole time and I'm convinced it was leakage around the inlets at the bottom. I...
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    Any suggestions for finding drum in SE Michigan

    Yeah, they sell those too.
  7. johna

    Any suggestions for finding drum in SE Michigan

    If you or anyone else in the Metro area are still looking for a barrel, give C-Mar a call. They sell reconditioned and unlined used drums. Make sure they know what you're using it for so they don't give you one that was used to hold poison or something else nasty. I got an unlined one that...
  8. johna

    New UDS Member from Brazil - Photos and Help Request

    It's the ash you want to clean out, because if it gets damp/wet it will rapidly rust out your bottom. Every other cook, I pull the basket out and sweep up the little pieces of charcoal and then vacuum out the ash that's left. As for food drippings probably 80-90% of that falls on the burning...
  9. johna

    WHATS YOUR "GO-TO" BURGER??

    We will sometimes take a tablespoon dab or so of goat cheese and form the party around it. Then pepper, garlic powder and some soy sauce go on the party before I grille it. The goat cheese makes a moist creamy center.
  10. johna

    First brisket point.

    I have the good fortune of having several butcher shops that will sell me just the point. Love the shops, but to be able to find it in a grocery store would be a dream, as the butchers don't always have them. And what was this new rub you mention?
  11. johna

    GIVEAWAY for Inkbrid 150 feet Bluetooth bbq thermometer with 4 probes

    I'm game, please toss my name in the hat!
  12. johna

    Heat for uds build

    Let's be kind of honest here: a UDS is sort of a larger water or cheap bullet smoker without the water. We wanted a bigger grille and the tuff guy look of having built our own but it's the same principle: heat and smoke in the bottom, food up top. I used to have an electric bullet smoker...
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    BPS UDS Build with Photos and Lessons Learned

    One more building tip The instructions have you put the hook to the "left" of the handle, that is, if the the vent is the front. If I continue to go with the vent being the "front" of the lid, then I have to remove the lid with my right hand in order to hook it on the barrel. I found this...
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    BPS UDS Build with Photos and Lessons Learned

    I think my first issue was not loading up the basket enough. However I also burned through 3/4 of a 8 lb Royal Oak Lump Charcoal bag in about four hours. I have a feeling leaking may be also be a cause, since lots of smoke came out between the barrel and the lid. I'm thinking of running a...
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    BPS UDS Build with Photos and Lessons Learned

    AFTER ACTION REPORT Loading up the basket only half way was a mistake, I ran out or low twice in the four hours while I was seasoning it and then ran really low at the end of my chicken smoke I did on it. I started losing temp during the snowstorm as i smoked my chicken. I tossed the...
  16. johna

    BPS UDS Build with Photos and Lessons Learned

    I was able to hold the temp at 225 by shutting the lid vent and the intakes were covered by 3 and 1/2 holes each side. The leakage at the lid rim gave enough air flow to keep it going
  17. johna

    BPS UDS Build with Photos and Lessons Learned

    This it starting to get seasoned. I started with half a basket of Royal Oak lump charcoal. Not sure how much I like the charcoal as there are a lot of small pieces that fell through the basket.
  18. johna

    BPS UDS Build with Photos and Lessons Learned

    Well that took a while. I finally sanded the outside clean, painted it and put it all together. Well I didn't print the the lid yet. But after a year I'm really ready to get this thing cooking. KIT NOTES 1. Count your parts and hardware. Unlike your kid's Lego sets they don't include any...
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    BPS UDS Build with Photos and Lessons Learned

    The weather has finally warmed up a bit and I'm getting the barrel ready for paint. At least by the end of the month. FYI, the cheap angle grinder from Harbor Freight, with a wire wheel on it has done a great job of taking the remaining paint off that the fire didn't burn off. Wonder if it...
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    BPS UDS Build with Photos and Lessons Learned

    Good news! I just found a can of brush on High Temp rustoleum at HD. Now I can paint in the basement without getting overspray everywhere. Hoping to get this further along in the next week.
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