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Thanks Dave.

That looks an interesting site. It threw me for a minute as it appeared that they were giving it away (cost £0.00) until you add it to the basket. They appear to have a good variety of wood types (including Mesquite for Danny). Not sure about the price though at £30 for 5Kg for most of their woods. I tend to use pellets these days (£50-£60 for 27 Kg) but it would probably be worth getting some real wood chunks in for those "special" smokes.

If you give them a try please let us know how you get on.

Cheers

Wade
 
Hi Paul

I find pellets very versatile but I do use both. The pellets are good for both hot and cold smoking whereas the wood is really only suitable for hot. Here are the pellet in use today in a similar way to using wood chunks for a hot smoke.


Mesquite on the left and hickory on the right

Here is a close up of the snake in the 26" with Mesquite before adding the primer lit briquettes. This is my usual setup for low temperature smoking when i'm not using the IQ. 


These will maintain a cooking temperature of 115 C and provide constant smoke for 6-8 hours.
 
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Danny - those chips that you had as the summer meeting looked great.

Paul - If Danny got them from these folks then they are certainly worth buying.
 
Hi Dave - One of these?


I bought one a few years ago and used it for a while but in the end found I was rather disappointed with it. It would only take fine sawdust and it was hard to reliably keep it alight for any length of time. In cooler damp conditions (i.e. overnight) if would regularly go out and was just not reliable. Sadly it is now sitting on my shelf gathering dust. Maybe you will have more luck with it than I did.

Before that I tried one if the Smoke Daddy cylinder generators (then sold under the name of "Porky Pa") however that used to clog up every time it was used.


Finally I then moved across to an AMNPS type generator and found that it works like a dream - reliable and produces lots of good smoke.


Please let us know how you get on with the ProQ
 
Yes thats the one. I get on great with it, find it does a great job, 10 hour burn no worries.

Six hour smoke on some cheese and black peppercorns.

They have just brought out a new larger version.

People on sausagemaking.org swear by them.

Main problem is keeping the temperature low to cold smoke. I hope the sample they re sending me is fine enough, plum smoked brie sounds nice.
 
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People on sausagemaking.org swear by them.
Dave - it is great that you are getting on well with yours.

I often used to swear by it too - but that was when I used to go out to the smoker in the morning only to find that it had gone out hours before - LOL
 
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