What is your smoking project for 2010?

[nickelmore]

I am going to officially finish my first smoker, and start on a second one that I will end up giving away to my sone or selling.

Clean up my garage so I have more room to smoke.

Finish my basement kitchen so I have better room for sausage making.

Smoke some fish.

Ride my harley to BBQ places around the state. (new thread)

 

[rio_grande]

I plan to expand the back portch by about 400 sqft this year and turn a large portion of it into a summer kitchen.

Secondly I WILL have a home built stick burner built by this time next year hopefully sooner...

 

[cppbrian]

I just finished my first smoke last weekend, so I got a lot to catch up on.
Some plans I have for 2010 is
1) beef ribs (picked up 4 racks today at Vons on sale in cryovac, gonna be made for my wife's birthday on the 29th of jan)
2) chuckie (been in freezer for a few weeks)
3) turkey (got a 11lb one for $5 after thanksgiving)
4) pastrami

and the other 'regular' items to smoke that Ive not done before.

experimenting with new woods, including the peach prunings off my tree that are seasoning

And trying new rubs and bbq sauce recipes and modifying them to my liking.

All while trying not to gain weight

 

[dirt guy]

I have hopes of building a new smoker/charcoaler for the backyard. Being self-employed AND married.....with children sometimes puts a kink in my best laid plans.

 

[rstr hunter]

My 2010 BBQ goals are:
1) Bacon
2) New electric smoker (thinking a new 40" MES)
3) Work on old fashioned wiener recipe

Good Luck to all in their Smoking Endeavours.

Have a Happy New Year.

 

[bb53chevpro]

I want to learn how to smoke........ lol

Let's see......corned beef/pastrami
brisket (never done one yet)
jerky
snack sticks
lots of sausage
more bacon

build the reverse flow on the trailer
build a mini reverse flow that carries in the trailer hitch for camping
Heck......I could go one for ever.....lol

 

[forluvofsmoke]

I guess I'm the opposite of Fatback Joe...I used to be in a comfort zone with my spares, chix, etc from about 6 years ago when I got my first smoker. Then, I found SMF and my whole world got turned upside-down! LOL!!!!

Late in '08, I started getting alot of ideas from member's posts here, and really began cranking things up in '09. I like to do something different with almost every smoke the past year, changing up my methods or rubs to keep the exitement levels up with my cooking experiences. My wife has asked me several times if I used the same rub this time as last time, or if I used a different smoke wood...drives her crazy sometimes because she never knows what I did differently from the last, so we start the quizing game...

2010 is anybody's guess! The sky is the limit, friends, so I can't say what I may be doing for the next week or month, and definately not the next year, but here are some things I would like to accomplish:

1. build a wide-body vertical smoker (details will be released to the forum later);

2. spice-up my CB brine/cure recipe for another run;

3. more corned beef pastrami!!!!!!!!;

4. more packers with burnt ends!!!!!!!!;

See what happened here?!?!?!? LOL!!!!! I just can't help myself!

Seriously though, only time will tell what I'll have the ambition/creativity for. Hang around, you'll find out...

Eric

 

[asyman]

thinking about adding a stoker to my file cabinet smoker. I am also thinking of converting to all wood. Maybe an old wood stove off to the side piped into the lower drawer. Anyone use a stoker?

-sausage
-pastrami

 

[asyman]

I would like to add a stoker and switch over to all wood. maybe an old wood stove off to the side and piped into the lower drawer all on a small trailer...


-pastrami
-sausage

 

[meateater]

NOW YOUR TALKING!!

 

[pops6927]

Reminds me of when we lived in upstate NY, had a customer come in with a unique problem of checking on his mare foaling; every hour he had to get up and trek out to the barn in -30 below and blizzard. We set him up with a b/w camera plugged into a 5" b/w tv video input, 400 ft. of coax cable laid across the snow w/RCA adapter ends (one helluva long RCA cable for video!) from the TV on his bedstand to the barn. All he had to do was roll over, turn on the TV and check on the mare, roll back over and reset his alarm and go back to sleep! When the blessed time came, he made one trip to the barn to deliver it. In the spring he buried the cable and made it a permanent part of his farming operation!

 

[pops6927]

There's two things I'd like to accomplish this coming year in 2010:

1) Build a wooden smokehouse in the back yard with multiple capabilities (be able to hang sausages or belly bacon, racks for horizontal smoked items, hot and/or cold smoking, etc.).

2) Experiment with making skin-on hot dogs; refining and perfecting the recipe and process.

Accomplishing those two things would great!

 

[fire it up]

Making sausage and bacon are at the top of things I need to make.

As a side note-still to do with smoking- I was hoping to open a BBQ restaurant but that is a lot easier said than done so instead I decided to go small catering and grow from there.
I have my menu pretty much worked out and am happy with it and having worked in the restaurant industry for so long I know lots of folks around whos kitchens I could use when I have bigger parties to do.
Long as the food is good, the prices are fair and I can introduce people to thinks they have never even heard of (fatties, ABTs, Cherry Bombs) not to mention homemade pastrami

I don't see any problems.

 

[bbqhead]

In 2010 I want to work on my 1st GC. also work on chicken, got new ideas, just gotta make them reality. hope to get my super kitchen from paper to dream come true. Everyone have a happy new year!

 

[beer-b-q]

My Plans are:

1. Replace the Bradley Digital 6rack (Unhappy With) with a New MES 40".
2. Build a New Outbuilding to house my Grand Cafe Smoker for All Weather Smoking Heated and AC Equipped.
3. Start Making My Own Sausage and Jerky.
4. Have a better year of smoking hopefully than this year was because of medical problems.

 

[smokin-jim]

My goals for 2010.

1. I need to make belly bacon.
2. Make 2 barrel smokers , 1 UDS and a double stack for larger smokes.
3. Master above smokers.
4. Become an OTBS member.
5. Running the food booth at the farmers market for my church.

 

[chef jeff tx]

Add gas & Mod/tune my Hondo, convert my GOSM's to natural gas, build a large fridge smoker and build a structure to house all the above.

Bacon & sausage!!

OTBS

 

[denver dave]

2010 goals:

1. Get serious about judging
2. Finish my competition rig.
3. Bacon-Bacon-Bacon
4, Figure out how to make a descent looking fattie.

 

[wutang]

Well I just put some cure on a pork belly the other night so I will be scratching bacon off my list next week. I have been making lots of fresh sausages lately but want to get into more cured/cold smoked sausages. I also have been meaning to make jerky.

I would like to get into some local comps and try my hand at that this summer too. Not sure how quickly I can jump into that arena but I think it would be a blast.

I have been doing some small time "catering" for friends here and there and I would like to get that going as a true business...but that is more like a slow process over the next couple years maybe.

Great thread Laurel!!!

 

[badfrog]

About 10 yrs ago I was doing computer work for a company...We had a raised floor humidity and temp controlled room that housed all of the servers; my boss built a digital thermometer to monitor the temps in the the server room that tied into a pc on the network...if it went above 65 the system emailed whichever one of us was on call. With todays wireless and bluetooth technology it could be way better...hmmm another '10 project?!