Post pics of your smoker

[Duckfoot]

I would defiantly like some more pics of this one!!
Great JOB!

Here are some country style ribs on the L.B.O.

Will try to find all the pics for a pseudo build thread...

 

[DeadDoc]

Here are some country style ribs on the L.B.O.

Will try to find all the pics for a pseudo build thread...

JERK! Where was the invite???

New toy. Electric Pellet Smoker. $200, came with 2 sets of 20# bags of Apple, Hickory, and Mesquite, cover, and extended hopper for long smoke times.

 

[ikonis]

Here's my "smoker" earlier today.. right after I threw a bird on it

Yes, it's just a boring weber kettle. Minion method FTW!

Here's a pork shoulder I did last week on the same thing:

 

[Layne]

Two bacon explosions.
One with fresh green onion sausage , crawfish, and creamcheese.
One with hamburger, crumbled bacon, and cheddar jack cheese.

Also 6 lbs of fresh boudin.

 

[deepsouth]

large, mini, small

 

[DeadDoc]

large, mini, small

Got money to hand out?

 

[CHefJohnboyardee]

i need it to quit raining on my first day off in three weeks. I want to finish my drum!!! :[

 

[user 29649]

Here's a video of the drum I built last year

 

[lschiavo]

Finally took a few pics of my ugly drum. I still haven't gotten around to painting it...it would have been a lot easier before mounting all this stuff on it.

I put together an automated blower system with a bunch of stuff I had laying around:

This is the controller. PID, 12VDC adaptor for the computer fan, 24VAC transformer for the damper motor.

Here is the blower unit with everything plugged in. Its just a pvc junction box with a computer fan mounted in the cover and 3-in electrical conduit out the back. I mounted the damper motor to the conduit and drilled the shaft through.

Here is my homemade damper. Just a piece of aluminum screwed to the damper motor shaft.

It works great. Once it settles in to the set temp, it just stays there until its out of fuel.

 

[JohnTheBrewist]

Can you give some more info on the damper motor, as well as how it operates in conjunction with the fan? I'm assuming that it is never fully closed when you are cooking?

 

[lschiavo]

Can you give some more info on the damper motor, as well as how it operates in conjunction with the fan? I'm assuming that it is never fully closed when you are cooking?

It's a spring return damper that I took off a wood stove. The controller turns on the fan and opens the damper when the temp drops. The damper is otherwise fully closed. Of course it is not completely air tight when closed but enough to lower temps.

 

[IrregularPulse]

So what do your temp swings look like? up 2-5° then back down and back down and back up or what?

 

[lschiavo]

So what do your temp swings look like? up 2-5° then back down and back down and back up or what?

I really haven't watched it that closely. I usually give it at least a half hour to settle in (sometimes takes a bit longer). Opening the cover, of course disturbs things and takes a bit to recover.

I usually just check it whenever I happen to walk by and if it has been undisturbed for a while, it seems to stay within a few degrees of the setpoint.

I will pay a little more attention next time.

 

[corkybstewart]

The Beast-made of 20" well casing for 1200 square inches of grill space

It has 2 shelves and 9 hooks for ribs

10 pounds of 2 row smoking w/pecan wood

 

[strat_thru_marshall]

Just refinished my UDS from plain black to AWESOME.

Now to re-assemble and smoke some ribs this weekend.

 

[FoundersBrew]

Just refinished my UDS from plain black to AWESOME.

Now to re-assemble and smoke some ribs this weekend.

This is AWESOME!!! what paint did you use? I want to do mine like this.

 

[strat_thru_marshall]

This is AWESOME!!! what paint did you use? I want to do mine like this.

Thank you. I used hi-temp engine spray paint I got from Pep Boys (and a whole roll of masking tape...and most of a Monday afternoon), they had all three colors in stock. You could probably get away with regular spray paint though, I did several cooks in the drum with the black factory finish and it never got even close to hot enough to melt the paint.

 

[lschiavo]

Just refinished my UDS from plain black to AWESOME.

Now to re-assemble and smoke some ribs this weekend.

Very nice paint job! I think it would cook better if it were green and yellow with a big"G" on though

 

[jeepinjeepin]

I need to light another hot fire in mine to finish burning the original pink paint off. I am going back with good old high temp grill black.

 

[corkybstewart]

You can get 2000F degree engine paint that will last a while. It's expensive so I just used it on the firebox part of my grill and normal engine paint(650F) for the rest.

 

[pharmer1]

Not quite finished. Need thermometers and racks.

 

[Layne]

Niice!

 

[MMBB]

Built this last winter with a friend. Made from a food grade fifty five gallon drum, a "custom" lid, and sitting on two wheels with air filled tires in the back as well as one solid caster in the front. You can't see the handle on the back in this picture but we can tilt it back and move it just like a hand truck.

Taken at a bbq around the 4th of July. We did 30lbs of pork butt/shoulder (weight before cooking) in it for a 50ish person BBQ and pulled it. It was a huge hit and we catered another BBQ early last month for around 20ish people. We have been working on our rub for seven or eight years now and everyone loves it. At the 4th of July BBQ I watched a guy go back for pulled pork sandwiches five times.

Quick edit. We started on on one of the green Brinkmann smokers back in 2002ish. We have gone through probably six of them!

 

[toolboxdiver]

Here is the smoker i made from a 85 gal Drum the smokin area is 37 X 25 I can fit 12 racks of St Louis Cut or baby back ribs

 

[dfess1]

very nice!! Now lets see some food pron!

 

[toolboxdiver]

Thanks will be smoking next weekend

 

[cheezydemon3]

Here's mine.
My stick burner, my Cookshack smoker, and my webber gas grill.
What can I say, we're meat eaters!

A good christmas eh????

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I made one just like it, but the bottom pot cracked and fell apart after 4 or so uses. do you have a pan or something to hold the coals? I just had a grate off of the floor by 2 inches or so.

Damned shame.


*Oh YEAH!!! BEAUTIFUL THREAD! PROST!!!!!!*

 

[wilded]

Here you go.

 

[arturo7]

Quite the rig you've got there, tex.

 

[Flomaster]

Here you go.

just saw a rig almost exactly like it at bass proshop. I **** my pants when I saw the price tag.

I like the cold smoke chamber it has though.

-=Jason=-