Where has this site been my whole life?

[ericksaint]

New guy from Milwaukee. I've seldom smoked regularly, and if I did it was always in a Weber kettle. This weekend I smoked a rack of baby backs in a small Weber Jumbo Joe. First try at using something that small, it turned out OK, but could have used more foil time than I gave it.

The temps in that thing were kind of hard to control, mostly because it was super windy out. But I had people coming over so I was committed to making it work.

I'm going to be picking up a Masterbuilt Pro propane unit, probably this week. My thought was to build a stand for it out of pressure treated deck wood. Does anybody see a problem with that? I see people putting the propane units, or even charcoal grills and smokers on their decks pretty frequently. By building myself I can make it fit the exact space I want it to, and I was going to bolt it to the top for stability and security. Would hate to have it go missing. I guess if heat under is an issue I could put fire bricks under it.

Anyway, that's my long winded intro, I'm off to explore around these pages.

Erick

 

[submariner]

Welcome and I said the same thing when I ran into this website awhile back!!!  How did I survive without it!!

 

[tropics]

Erick the smoker will come with safety info,follow the space needed to keep you and family safe

Richie

 

[sauced]

Welcome to the forum!! 

 

[SmokinAl]

Welcome aboard Erick!

Glad to have you join the group!

Al

 

[ericksaint]

Thanks for the welcomes. I'm probably going to pick up my unit tonight. Yesterday I was at Walmart and roaming through the camping aisle. That had an entire stack of the cheap 10" Ozark cast irons with stickers on them for the 8's. So I picked up a 10" chip pan for $4.98.

Hopefully I'll get it all built and be smoking by the weekend.