Newbie defines me as a smoker, but I have always had a liking to smoking meat.
A few years back I had a charcoal vertical, the round pill shaped ones. Mainly been grilling, and paying someone to smoke turkey's for me on the holidays. This year I decided I was going to spend the money that I usually spend to get the turkeys smoked on a smoker and do it myself.
So I bought an electric vertical smoker (pill shaped again) for 75. Smoked several chickens, couple pork loins then smoked 2 turkey's for turkey day. Every thing turned out fantastic and really getting into this.
After extensive research, I decided that the electric wasn't really what I wanted or needed. Occasionally when the wife's family and mine get together there can be 30 to 50 people here.
I really want to get to a wood burning level, but I'm not ready for that, and not ready to shell out around a grand to have what I'd consider to be a decent setup. So I upgraded to a wide gas cabinet smoker, and giving the electric to my son in law.
I haven't seasoned the gas smoker or used it yet, but plan on seasoning it and start practicing on it this weekend.
My intention is to build a smokehouse this spring and then start wood burning everything. Working on drawing up my plans over the next couple of weeks, long before I build anything.
I'm an avid saltwater aquarium hobbyist, have 3 large aquariums, and built all 3 of them, this includes the filter systems, piping, man made reef rock. I also sell and trade coral. Now i didn't get to that level on day 1, I have had my trials and tribulations, that includes a pump failure that dumped 100 gallons of water onto my floor. But research, practice, start small, patience and more research helps a person go a long ways.
I plan on applying same method to my new smoking hobby, with the exception of the dumping water part.
A few years back I had a charcoal vertical, the round pill shaped ones. Mainly been grilling, and paying someone to smoke turkey's for me on the holidays. This year I decided I was going to spend the money that I usually spend to get the turkeys smoked on a smoker and do it myself.
So I bought an electric vertical smoker (pill shaped again) for 75. Smoked several chickens, couple pork loins then smoked 2 turkey's for turkey day. Every thing turned out fantastic and really getting into this.
After extensive research, I decided that the electric wasn't really what I wanted or needed. Occasionally when the wife's family and mine get together there can be 30 to 50 people here.
I really want to get to a wood burning level, but I'm not ready for that, and not ready to shell out around a grand to have what I'd consider to be a decent setup. So I upgraded to a wide gas cabinet smoker, and giving the electric to my son in law.
I haven't seasoned the gas smoker or used it yet, but plan on seasoning it and start practicing on it this weekend.
My intention is to build a smokehouse this spring and then start wood burning everything. Working on drawing up my plans over the next couple of weeks, long before I build anything.
I'm an avid saltwater aquarium hobbyist, have 3 large aquariums, and built all 3 of them, this includes the filter systems, piping, man made reef rock. I also sell and trade coral. Now i didn't get to that level on day 1, I have had my trials and tribulations, that includes a pump failure that dumped 100 gallons of water onto my floor. But research, practice, start small, patience and more research helps a person go a long ways.
I plan on applying same method to my new smoking hobby, with the exception of the dumping water part.
