paulthenurse
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So a few years ago I made a big BBQ smoker out of an old oil tank. Over the years there have been many modifications but I have it pretty much where I want it now. My buddy Drunken copied my design and now we have two (actually three, one needs some surgery and is OOC at the moment.) We call my original BBQ Bertha and the others are B2 and B3 respectively.
So this past Saturday we traveled out to West Stockbridge, Ma, at the far western end of the Mass Turnpike to cook two small pigs for a friends hillbilly wedding. We could have done one larger pig but ended up doing two small ones due to a lack of availability of a larger one.
We drove out the night before and punished our livers while sitting around a big bonfire. Then, slightly hungover, we got up early Saturday morning and started the fires.
Our latest refinements on the smokers is additional ventilation for the fireboxes. Makes all the difference when you can damper down the fire if the heat gets too high or open it up if the cooking chamber gets too cool.
Next time we need to put the two Bertha's a smidge closer to each other so you can step from one to the next, would have been much simpler.
And on goes piggy #1.
So this past Saturday we traveled out to West Stockbridge, Ma, at the far western end of the Mass Turnpike to cook two small pigs for a friends hillbilly wedding. We could have done one larger pig but ended up doing two small ones due to a lack of availability of a larger one.
We drove out the night before and punished our livers while sitting around a big bonfire. Then, slightly hungover, we got up early Saturday morning and started the fires.
Our latest refinements on the smokers is additional ventilation for the fireboxes. Makes all the difference when you can damper down the fire if the heat gets too high or open it up if the cooking chamber gets too cool.
Next time we need to put the two Bertha's a smidge closer to each other so you can step from one to the next, would have been much simpler.
And on goes piggy #1.