Newbie from Louisiana

[popsbbqpops]

I am the one who posted earlier this week: Low & Slow vs Hot and Fast Ribs...

Thanks to everyone who responded and I plan on using the 3 - 2- 1 method Sunday.

Living in Louisiana, I love crayfish and BBQ...

My son's brand x smoker now sells for over $3000 and I just couldn't shell out that much. 

He babies that thing, adjusts air flow, temp, adds coals & wood chips, etc and to me that's a royal Pain in the "Boston Butt".

Now for the smoking purest, please don't get me wrong.  I'm not saying this is wrong or a bad thing. Its just not my thing to stand by and burn an afternoon smoking.

So, I had the thought... what is a smoker???

It's an oven with smoke and set to a prescribed temperature for x amount of time... right???

Please see my pictures below for my home brew smoker built in one weekend for under $500.

Take one brand new oven on sale

Add casters

Remove the top burners and valves and wires - only the oven knob and temp control remains

Close in the back with sheet metal and add gas hose and AC cord.

make water drip pan out of stainless

modify and build smoke chip box

finished result of drip pan and smoke box - ignites chips from hole drilled in bottom of oven

Cooking my first ribs

added granite slab to finish the top and used electric plugs to close the gas valve holes... note the vent hole cut in the top of the granite

my first Pulled pork Boston Butt smoked and cooked for 13 hours - meat fell apart using "claws".

Now I am testing recipes, rubs, wood chips, temperatures, times etc and having a blast.

Why I built this thing is I can set the oven temp knob to 225 at 10:00pm and walk away till the next morning and no coals, or temp change to worry about.

I will gladly answer any question y'all may have.

thanks for providing this forum.

PopsBBQPops

 

[s2k9k]

 [color= rgb(24, 24, 24)]to SMF!!! We're happy you found us! You've come to the right place, there's lot's of great people here who love to share and help each other out! Would you do us a favor and update your profile to include your location, Thanks![/color]

You might want to check out Jeff's Free 5 day E-course, it will teach you all the basics and a whole lot more: http://www.smoking-meat.com/smoking-basics-ecourse.html

That's a Great looking smoker! I've seen quite a few fridge builds but this is my first stove build, very good idea!

 

[scarbelly]

Hello  and 

to SMF - glad to have you here - Great looking smoker 

 

[rubbin butts]

 Great idea for the walk away smoker. Just add one of Todd's AMNPS for smoke and it will truly be a walk away.

 

[daveomak]

Welcome to the forum......  That looks good enough to put in the kitchen !!!!  Marvelous !!!!!  Dave