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  1. bad santa

    Santa's "Jumbo Jimmy" build w/q-view

    Have had putting together a mini-wsm on my mind, but just hadn't gotten around to making one. Then I saw FWIsmoker's thread on his Jumbo Joe building of the "Jimmy" and T9gear's video on how he built his, I decided this was the kind I would like to do. So "Thanks" to them both, after reading the...
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    Tried Reinhard's Stuffed Bacon Loaf recipe...

    After reading Reinhard's recipe about stuffing bacon loaf into fibrous casings I had to give it a try and I have to say that it is tasty. Reinhard's recipe: So I purchased some of the bacon seasoning and had some boneless chuck roasts and a pork butt already and ended up doing 2-5lb batches of...
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    Smoked Christmas Gifts

    Been busy the last couple of weeks getting my stocking stuffers smoked up and packaged for Christmas. Did some various flavors of cheeses, 2 double smoked hams, and 9 lbs. of Bear's uncased beef logs. Here are some pics of it all... Double smoked apple n cherry habanero jelly mixture...
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    Catered for 100

    Fed 100 guests at a wedding party last night, the bride chose a menu of 3 meats and 2 sides, which was brisket, pulled pork, sausage, pintos, corn casserole, and cole slaw. Since the bride was having a cup cake table instead of a traditional wedding cake, I made a large pan of Sopapilla...
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    Talapia fillets on the WSM

    Got hold of some really nice big Talapia fillets and got them ready for the grill by painting them with a marinade made up of 1 cup of Worcestershire 6 tbl melted unsalted butter juice of 1 lemon some Cajun seasonings, I used Tony's but Slap yo mama or any other style would work too...
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    A batch of Bear's Nekkid Beef Logs

    I was wanting to do up a batch of uncased snack stix for the Memorial Day weekend festivities and thought that Bear's recipe for his unstuffed beef logs would fit the bill. So I made up a 7 lb. batch and squirted them out of my Dakotah stuffer onto trays and racks to chill over night and be...
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    What do you do with your meat drippings?

    Quite a few of you may already do this trick for saving flavor for other uses, but for those who don't, here is something to do with your left over au jus, or meat drippings, from your cooks. I take the drippings from the pan I smoked my briskets or butts in and then pour the left over juices...
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    Old Freezer converted to a hot n cold smoker

    Here's some pics of a build I did a few years back when my freezer gave up and died on me. Gave it a new life by gutting it out and removed the plastic linings and trim that was in it. It was an older model freezer, so the insides were mostly metal and very little plastic. The insulation was...
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    My run at Canadian Bacon

    Had been wanting to make some bacon, but locating  good pork bellies around here, have been few and far between. So I found some pork loins on sale and decided that I'd try and make Canadian bacon. After reading and searching thorugh the threads of what people have used and seemed to have good...
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    Howdy, from Texas!

    Howdy, Bad Santa here and I wanted to join in the fun that y'all are having here on this fine and very informative forum. I have been learning and playing with the art of cooking with smoke for about 45 years now and have always been fascinated with it. Built a smoker out of an old freezer years...
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