Info on Building a Homebuilt Smoker
December 13, 2005 | Issue 17
Homebuilt smokers have been known to out-smoke the commercial models.. learn more below
Good day,
Welcome to the December edition of the Smoking-Meat.com monthly newsletter. I am your host Jeff Phillips and I am going to delve into an area that I have never gone before and hopefully I will be able to inspire some of you to go there with me.. don't worry.. you will know what I am talking about in just a minute!
Coming up in this issue:
- Homebuilt Contraptions and Smokers
- BBQ Competitions
- New Audio eCourse on CD
- Joke of the Month
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Homebuilt Smokers?
I have been doing some major research on homebuilt smokers over the last several weeks in preparation for this newsletter and I have to say that I am getting myself all excited..
I have seen folks make smokers out of everything from old refridgerators to 55 gallon drums and to me that is the real idea behind smoking.. taking something that is otherwise unorthodox and unusable in its present form and with a little tender loving care, turn it into something beautiful and tasty.
Brisket is a prime example of this.. what used to be a throw-a-way piece of meat is made delectable by slow smoking it over a low heat fire.
I found a page recently which lists a dozen or so different homebuilt smokers with some of them being nothing but cinder blocks with a tin roof but it has got me to thinking how I can construct something like that in my back yard and try to do it in a way that has never been done. (I always have to be different).
Some of the smokers on the website were put together by professional welders and many weeks of planning obviously went into the design and those are great if you have welding skills or perhaps masonry skills but the ones that really caught my attention where the ones that looked as if they had robbed the city dump for materials and then used a little common sense to put something together that would work.
Folks.. I am not kidding when I say that I am fired up about this (bad pun.. I know)
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I am ready to go round up a bunch of cinder block, bricks and old sheets of tin and try my hand at smoking meat in a very uncanny way.
The whole idea behind this article is to try and encourage some of you to think outside of the firebox and try to come up with a new design using scrap materials or at least materials that you can buy very cheap.
I can assure you that I am going to be trying this over the next few weeks and hopefully in time to give you an update in the January newsletter.. I hope some of you will do the same. If you do, be sure to send me some pics and a brief explanation of how you did it and I will post them on the site for all to see.
If you have already done something like this then by all means send me some pics for the website and let's show off your ingenuity! Looking forward to seeing what some of you have or will come up with.
Here is the web page I referred to earlier:
http://www.ibiblio.org/lineback/bbq/pits.htm
January BBQ Competitions
This is a new section in the newsletter.. to keep everyone abreast of the upcoming competitions I will scour the various calendars for the KCBS and other barbecue associations and list all of the events coming up in the following month.
If you have knowledge of an upcoming event sanctioned or not by one of the well know BBQ associations then I will be happy to list it as well if you will send me the information.
| 01/01 - 01/01
2006
Felda, FL
State Championship |
Contact: Allison Davis, 25 South Hwy 29, Felda, FL 33930
Phone: 863-675-0687 Fax: 863-675-4938
E-mail: chilegaor@msn.com
KCBS Reps: Stephen Smith, Sue Smith |
| 01/27 - 01/28
2006
Lakeland, FL
State Championship |
Contact: Gina Brown, 114 N. Tennessee Avenue, Lakeland, FL 33801
Phone: 863-519-3082 Fax: 863-519-2144
E-mail: gbrown@candcbank.com
KCBS Reps: Carolyn Wells, Clif Welch, Stephen Smith, Walter Hofman |
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The eCourse Gets Even Better..
- Meat Selection
- Building and maintaining a fire
- Different types of smokers and how they work
- Mods you can do to make your equipment work better
- Ways to Increase flavor using marinades, rubs, sauces, mops, and brining
- How to know when your meat is done by feel, touch, and sight
- How to accurately estimate cook times for Poultry, Beef and Pork
- And More...
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Joke of the Month
The volunteers arrived in a dilapidated old fire truck that rumbled straight into the middle of the flames. The firemen jumped off the truck and frantically started spraying water in all directions. Soon they had snuffed out the center of the fire, breaking the blaze into two easily controlled parts.
The farmer was so impressed and so grateful that his farm had been spared, that he presented the volunteers with a check for $1,000 on the spot. A local news reporter asked the volunteer fire captain what the department planned to do with the funds.
"That ought to be obvious, " he responded, wiping ashes off his coat. "The first thing we're gonna do is get the brakes fixed on our fire truck!"
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