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Off the shelf mailbox mod options?
Has anyone discovered an off the shelf item that makes a cracking mailbox mod with little modification? I am loathed to fabricate one if there is something reasonably priced in a hardware store somewhere that will do the job. So folks, what did you find / use when you were making yours?- jax13
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- Forum: UK Smokers
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Amnps replica issues. Help and advice please.
It would seem a change of wood has cured my problem. I filled the generator with hickory and for good measure, chucked it in the oven for 10 minutes to dry it out. Without modifying the intake size or location I am now burning with a better volume of smoke and burning completely. The...- jax13
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- Forum: Slicers, Grinders, Tools, Equipment
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Amnps replica issues. Help and advice please.
Barbecook apparently! It's the same ish but circular rather than rectangular. Worryingly, Amazon have this thing I've got marked down £10 cheaper than the one you showed so I'm taking a stab that it isn't going to be the best out there! Has anyone got any experience of them? Good, bad or...- jax13
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- Forum: Slicers, Grinders, Tools, Equipment
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Amnps replica issues. Help and advice please.
Ash is black with some unburnt flakes. I'll get the drill out and see if another inlet helps! Thanks for the advice- jax13
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- Forum: Slicers, Grinders, Tools, Equipment
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Amnps replica issues. Help and advice please.
It was cherry dust rather than pellets. I'll reload in the morning with some hickory and have another bash to see if it stays lit, if not I'll look at a second inlet / add an intake fan on the existing inlet to increase the fresh air supply.- jax13
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- Forum: Slicers, Grinders, Tools, Equipment
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Amnps replica issues. Help and advice please.
After leaving clear instructions as to what to buy, some kind sole opted to get me a snailshell style amnps clone! It is relatively well made and I see no reason why it shouldn't do the job for cold smoking but I've hit a problem. In my minibar fridge conversion for cold smoking it will not...- jax13
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- Forum: Slicers, Grinders, Tools, Equipment
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What to do with smoked cheese.......
I used to do this with parmesan and use it as a starter in the restaurant. You have other shaping options too - while they are still warm and a little pliable try (depending on size) laying them over an upturned teacup or ramekin. For smaller discs you can press them into an egg box and these...- jax13
- Post #9
- Forum: Smoked Cheese
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Question about selling jerky
My pricing structure for the marmalade (different product, same principle) is to work out the cost price per unit - including fuel, packaging, labelling etc. Then work out the time taken including time spent selling /delivering. Put a price on your time per hour, multiply by time taken, divide...- jax13
- Post #27
- Forum: Making Jerky
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Question about selling jerky
Things are obviously different in the US compared to here in the UK but there was a couple of people over here went onto the dragons den TV show looking for an investment to turn their jerky business into a nationwide chain. The one I'm thinking of failed to get the investment however the...- jax13
- Post #23
- Forum: Making Jerky
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Best cut for 1st jerky attempt?
Well, I saw one of these linked from someone else... And for the price, it's worth it even just for drying the mass of chilli I seem to end up with each year. While I am mentioning it, I also bought a vacuum packer from the same firm for £40 reduced from £100 as well so a massive £120 saving...- jax13
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- Forum: UK Smokers
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Best cut for 1st jerky attempt?
Hi guys, just received a dehydrator for my birthday (early pressie from mother) and have tried it out on a few mushrooms and some garlic cloves. My idea is to take them to crispy and grind to a garlic mushroom powder for seasoning a batch of pork sausage. I really want to have a crack at...- jax13
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- Forum: UK Smokers
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Hot Dog cart for pulled pork?
Anything pulled / confit will hot hold well. The problems with hot holding foods come in when you are trying to keep dry things hot (sliced roast meats, whole chickens etc.) with pulled pork / brisket you can just add a splash of sauce / stock if the pans start drying out a little too much with...- jax13
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- Forum: Catering & Large Group Gatherings
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wanting to start a food booth as well
I realise things like this work differently in the states compared to the UK but as someone who does outside catering for family parties to charity events and village fairs I can tell you it isn't that simple! You need to work out the risks. 1, insurance. Should something go wrong you need...- jax13
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- Forum: Catering & Large Group Gatherings
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UK chef, new to smoking...
The fridge I have got lying around is a plastic lined domestic job so unfortunately not suited to hot smoke however... I think I'm going to skip the mailbox generator idea for now and go with 40mm waste pipe for the intakes and chimney (as per one build I looked at) and put the amns inside on... -
Kosher salt
A bit of an admission of guilt here... When curing I've only ever used brines (self made) or a ready mix dry cure (we used it in the butchers for our own dry cure bacon / salt beef and I use it for pastrami before a brine to finish it off) It's things like dry cure recipes that is going to...- jax13
- Post #10
- Forum: UK Smokers
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UK chef, new to smoking...
The big pink pig was (if my information is correct) originally built by a pig farmer who needed a hobby! He was asked by a caterer if they could buy it so he obliged. Mk1 was apparently slightly bigger than mine and when he built this one, he changed a few things to make it work better. I've... -
Kosher salt
I pretty much only ever use the fine sea salt you can get from Costco. Nice price, decent size (but not daft) tubs for home use. Table salt is used for certain things where I need the finer texture and I'm not a fan of the large flake Maldon sea salt. Never really seen a supplier for kosher...- jax13
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- Forum: UK Smokers
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Hog Roast
http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/251173123325?nav=SEARCH I've just bought a couple of these, one for my hot smoker project and another for my second hog roast oven... #2 is a boring cabinet style machine but my main one is a little bit unique!- jax13
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- Forum: UK Smokers
