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    Homemade bbq sauce questions

    I have to remember to try some spicy ketchup some day. My wife can't handle spicy things very well anymore. Thanks for the tip!
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    Homemade bbq sauce questions

    Late to the party, but I have been using a ketchup based bbq sauce now for almost 45 years and don't feel the least bit like I was cheating. I made some today and modified it slightly, but that good old ketchup is still there. It's an ingredient like anything else and as some have said, "make...
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    Exhaust question

    I think I used 6 inch.
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    Exhaust question

    Before I started using a weber dome lid on mine, I only used the existing bung hole that was in the removable lid. I did put a piece of pipe with a "T" joint at the top part of the pipe. If forget the size it takes. It worked just fine. When I moved to the Weber dome lid, the existing vents...
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    Cutoff Lip of Drum for Better Seal???

    I got the idea here somewhere years ago. I wished I remembered who so I could give them the credit.
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    Cutoff Lip of Drum for Better Seal???

    What I did with mine was left the drum rim alone (drum with lid... not a cut off lid) . I used a pair of pliers to bend out the webber lid lip out so it would over lap the drum rim. Then I turned the webber lid upside down, used heat resistant silicone gasket in a tube, put a good bead down...
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    Smoked walleye

    Could be a area thing on fish names. Down south where I'm from, Crappie are called White perch and up here in the north they are called crappie. When I first moved to Illinois and got into a bunch of crappie, the guy I was fishing with was making fun of me because I called them white perch.
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    Smoked walleye

    I'm with you... if I get my hands on some walleye, they are dipped in cornmeal/flour/seasoning and pan fried. After walleye, good wild caught catfish is my go to fish!
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    Beef jerky

    What daveomak said about the fat, but in case you do miss some, eat those first. Takes a couple days for the fat to go rancid, but fresh out the dehydrator, it's pretty damn good!
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    Smoked walleye

    Aye... I'm originally from Cameron Parish Louisiana. No Walleye down there. My first experience with them was when I did a fly in trip to God's Lake Manitoba many years ago. Caught lots of them and the guide would fry them up for shore lunches. Then years later when I moved to Illinois, I...
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    Smoked walleye

    Not sure if you are serious or not, but in case yes, Walleye is a northern fish. To me it is one of the best tasting fish there is. Although the smoked walleye look tantalizing to me, I would go for them fried up in a heart beat!
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    Beef jerky

    You can do it in an oven. I'm sure there is plenty of info somewhere, i.e. youtube, if no one here can help. The problem with ovens sometimes is that you can't get the temperature low enough. I normally go 160ish on my dehydrator so my guess is the oven has to be able to go at least that low...
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    Beef jerky

    Usually eye of round comes with a little fat cap on it, or at least by me it does. You will need to trim that and if silver skin is on, that as well. Having a sharp knife makes it very easy.
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    Beef jerky

    I usually wait till something goes on sale and then I buy a bunch. Lately the local grocery store has had very lean London broil on sale. I just pulled the jerky off the dehydrator this morning (5 lbs before dehydrating). You can use just about any lean meat that doesn't have a lot of...
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    I ate to the point of physical discomfort and am loving it.

    I smoked a pork butt last week. I lost count of the pulled pork samiches I ate. Was full as a tick the whole weekend!
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