Retired in Thailand

[Timothy Rhind]

Hello,
I am a Canadian in Thailand. My wife and I retired here. Struggling to make some of the things I miss here, with limited access to supplies to do so.
Started making sausages again after special ordering some herbs that weren't available locally. Imported kitchen and smoking devices are prohibitively expensive over here so I will make do with other methods.

I am doing bacon, and back bacon as well. Hope when I have the budget, I will buy a fridge and repurpose it as a dry curing cabinet.

Excited to find these forums.

 

[jcam222]

Welcome aboard!

 

[noboundaries]

Welcome from NorCal!

 

[912smoker]

Welcome to SMF from SE Ga !

Keith

 

[SmokinAl]

Welcome to SMF!
Glad to have you join us!
Al

 

[mneeley490]

Welcome from Washington State!

 

[sandyut]

Welcome to SMF!

 

[Bearcarver]

Welcome Timothy!!
Glad You joined us.

Bear

 

[ronf]

Welcome Sir.

 

[ronf]

Welcome Sir. What part of Canada are you from? My Mom was from the Georgian Bay area.

 

[Winterrider]

Welcome from North Dakota. Congratulations on your retirement.

 

[bauchjw]

Welcome from Virginia! Congrats on the Expat retirement plan! I have a few friends who retired there and love it!

 

[JLeonard]

Welcome from Mississippi. Looks forward to your post and pics. Would love to see the scenery.
Jim

 

[Sven Svensson]

Welcome, from California. I look forward to seeing how you adapt and innovate.

 

[forktender]

Congratulations on your retirement and move!!!
I just retired 4 months ago, and we'll move out of this Cali $h!thole as soon as my Ol'lady retires next year.

Heck, make a 55 gallon drum smoker to get you by until you figure out what you really want, you can use it for hot and cold smoking.

All you really need is a drill motor, a Uni drill bit and a couple pieces of rebar to hang the meat from. You don't need the fancy ball valves and fuel basket. All you need is to drill 3 to 5, 1'' holes at the base for the air inlets. You can cap them off with wadded up foil. Cut the top and the bottom out, then dig a fire pit down a few inches to contain the coals. Besides that, you just need a piece of sheet metal/ tin for a lid. They wok great, that's all we used at the ranch, we didn't have a drill, so we used a pick ax to pop a few breather holes in our drums, crude but effective.

Good luck.
Dan

 

[Timothy Rhind]

Welcome Sir. What part of Canada are you from? My Mom was from the Georgian Bay area.

Hello,
Originally from Montreal. Then all over when in the military, followed by 29 years in Winnipeg in the police.

 

[Timothy Rhind]

Welcome aboard!

Thank You

 

[Timothy Rhind]

Congratulations on your retirement and move!!!
I just retired 4 months ago, and we'll move out of this Cali $h!thole as soon as my Ol'lady retires next year.

Heck, make a 55 gallon drum smoker to get you by until you figure out what you really want, you can use it for hot and cold smoking.

All you really need is a drill motor, a Uni drill bit and a couple pieces of rebar to hang the meat from. You don't need the fancy ball valves and fuel basket. All you need is to drill 3 to 5, 1'' holes at the base for the air inlets. You can cap them off with wadded up foil. Cut the top and the bottom out, then dig a fire pit down a few inches to contain the coals. Besides that, you just need a piece of sheet metal/ tin for a lid. They wok great, that's all we used at the ranch, we didn't have a drill, so we used a pick ax to pop a few breather holes in our drums, crude but effective.

Good luck.
Dan

Thank You On the lookout for a drum. I assume it needs to be a drum that was used for food and not chemical or petroleum products.

 

[Timothy Rhind]

Welcome, from California. I look forward to seeing how you adapt and innovate.

Thank You

 

[Timothy Rhind]

Welcome from Mississippi. Looks forward to your post and pics. Would love to see the scenery.
Jim

Thank You. I have a small youtube channel for my travels over here, but I'm not sure if it's against the rules to post in my reply.