- Oct 25, 2013
- 7
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I have been dying to get back into smoking delicious meats. I've been out of smoking for about 6 years (ever since I arrived in PNG). I have a Traeger back in the States (Idaho) that we used to use several times a week. I used to take it into work and smoke ribs for the guys a couple of times a year. However, since we have moved to PNG as missionaries I just haven't had the time to build a smoker yet. So we have just "suffered". I have a couple of pigs that are ready to be butchered and my family has been dying for home smoked bacon and hams. So I have to get a smoker built, and tuned up, in enough time to have a Christmas ham!
The main problem I have, in building a smoker, is that propane has more than doubled in price over the last 2 years, so it is ridiculously expensive. Electric smoker is the way I am leaning. However, out power here is extremely unreliable and is very often off for days at a time.
The temperature rarely, if ever, drops below 50 degrees and is rarely over 85 degrees. We live in a high mountain jungle, 60-85% humidity consistently and up to 100% at times. We get 300+ inches of rain a year.
So those are some of my parameters. I will be reading the forums looking for a good vertical wooden cabinet smoker. If anybody has any advice or ideas please chime in!
Chad Wells
Pangia, Southern Highlands Province
Papua New Guinea
The main problem I have, in building a smoker, is that propane has more than doubled in price over the last 2 years, so it is ridiculously expensive. Electric smoker is the way I am leaning. However, out power here is extremely unreliable and is very often off for days at a time.
The temperature rarely, if ever, drops below 50 degrees and is rarely over 85 degrees. We live in a high mountain jungle, 60-85% humidity consistently and up to 100% at times. We get 300+ inches of rain a year.
So those are some of my parameters. I will be reading the forums looking for a good vertical wooden cabinet smoker. If anybody has any advice or ideas please chime in!
Chad Wells
Pangia, Southern Highlands Province
Papua New Guinea