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    Making Dry aged steak at home

    Cook's Illustrated did an experiment with dry aging at home complete with a blind test.  The outcome did not exactly match the commercial dry aging, but was still very close.  Here is the article. They do not recommend doing it for more than 4 days due to safety reasons. "In commercial...
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    GOSMs at Walmart

    Thank you all for the feedback.  The Big Block has been ordered (unfortunately I missed the $20 off coupon post). Looking forward to trying it next week. I just started posting here, but have been smoking for a while with Char Broil Silver and Bradley.
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    GOSMs at Walmart

    You mean Smoke Hollow.  Smoke Vault is out of stock pretty much everywhere and is $400, which is way above the $200 ish league.
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    GOSMs at Walmart

    Ok, pulled the trigger on the Big Block.  WM ship to store takes forever (2-3 weeks), could not wait that long.  With home shipping, the price difference becomes smaller. It also turned out that the Bass Pro site did not charge tax, even though they have a store in my state.
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    GOSMs at Walmart

    The walmart model is 34 x 20 x 14"
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    GOSMs at Walmart

    I am looking at these now as well. The only place that seems to carry Big Block now is Bass Pro at $199 plus $34 shipping.  So, it is $100 difference.  It seems that both have 18,000 BTU with a small difference in dimensions.
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