Roll Call

[4pogo7]

 
Hello everyone! Just found this awesome sight! From Mason City area, looking forward to being able to smoke without shoveling a path to the smoker first!

Welcome to the site and group!

 

[raybo]

From Davenport, Ia

 

[rickwl63]

Thanks for the add.  I am a little late at responding.  I am an Iowa farm boy at heart, even though the military moved me around a bit and deposited me in Papillion, NE.  Got a recipe of Joe Bant Polish Sausage in the Smoker right now.  My primary unit is a Cabela's Smokehouse Pro 100, back up is a Bradley 6-rack digital (my first and last one from them), plus I just picked up a Cabela's Propane smoker that I have yet to play with.  I try to get home as often as possible, family is dispersed throughout Polk, Marion, Lucas, and Marion County for the most part.

 

[welding smoke]

Hey, I'm a welding instructor that loves to fabricate different projects. I've done a few grill and smokers over the years and have used this site for a lot of reference material. I have all my students build a small "tailgate" size grill as one of their project and two years ago made myself a clone of a "Stumps" gravity feed unit" with a custom built PID Controller for the fan.

 

[olecrosseyes]

Well, here is my short.

I've been on the SMF as a registered member for some time. I don't chat much and when I smoke /grind and make sausage (summer, spice sticks, and breakfast or grind hamburger, brats and others) I usually miss the photo op! There are a life long worth of success and failure lessons to be had on this forums! Love to cook, Dutch oven, Weber grill and smoke.

I did not see this added sub forum untill now.

 

[smokebuzz]

Haven't  been on here much the last few years, but still smoke'n east of Ames...

 

[olecrosseyes]

Wholey smoked brisket, look what the wind blew in! 

How ya been?

 

 

[smokebuzz]

been very busy, other hobbys got in the way.. Gonna get after it harder this year, just ordered some cure, gonna do a bunch of bacon soon

 

[olecrosseyes]

Were you look'in for pink #1? I've got more than enough.

What other hobbies are ya into. Still goose and duck'in?

 

[smokebuzz]

ya, still fowl'n hard, I started a High School clay shooting team in 2015, that consumes my life... Work hasnt helped either, love my job, but get called in alot.  I ordered pink salt from sausage maker, got a friend that does jerky's, very good, but he has no idea what he's doing. I'm gonna give him some pink salt, and a little help, he makes some very interesting jerky's , no kit mixes. I plan to give him a bunch of geese to work with. 

 

[bigpapi1869]

I'm about twenty minutes northwest of Waterloo. Smoking for about ten years now. I work as a meat cutter, and have built a growing following of folks who come in and pick my brain about what to smoke and how. I've loved being here so far, always something new to learn and try.

 

[olecrosseyes]

^^^^

Do you work @ Nelson's?

 

[bigpapi1869]

 
^^^^

Do you work @ Nelson's?

No, I work for Hy-Vee. So, heavy emphasis on 'cutter', since we don't break down sides of beef anymore.

 

[olecrosseyes]

My first year @ U of I, I roomed with a son of the Nelson's Meat (Cedar Rapids or Waterloo I don't remember) and another from Sinnott Insurance from Waterloo.

 

[isuhunter]

In Grundy County here!

Rocking a UDS and hoping to build a nice vertical smoker to help my bacon making addiction.

 

[fullsmoke]

Hello from se iowa Iam 25 mins east of mt.plesant

 

[nursewizzle]

I'm in Des Moines.... If ya want some Bacon, hit me up!!

I'll take some bacon!

 

[nursewizzle]

Hey there, Hills here (five miles south of Iowa City).

 

[revs2ninegrand]

New to NW Iowa, Ireton to be exact. Got in to smoking about 10 years ago when I was stationed in Kansas. Been on and off this site for a bit

 

[spudthegreater]

If you know of any other Iowa members invite them to the group. I will continue to send invites as I find more Iowa folks.

You can add me. Im just outside of Grundy center and Dike south of Hwy 20.