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  1. herr tulpe

    the big green egg

    my understanding of lead uses in ceramics are that they would be in the glaze rather than in the ceramic themselves.. So probably safe.. (I am sure someone who actually knows will but in here!) The flip side of the coin is that I might get hit by a bus tomorrow, so does it really matter if...
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    the big green egg

    I found a chinese company that made a ceramic kamado style cooker, and it is fantastic!! as people before have said, it does everything in one.. In the last two weeks I did a loin roast wrapped in bacon, roast chickens, ribs, wings, pork tenderloins, pizza, bread, baked potatoes, and of course...
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    OffSet Smoker Quality vs price

    Since my last foray into smoker design, had been thinking about some alternatives, and have pretty much finished my design when I remembered that most of the smokers you buy in the US are actually made in China.. Have been doing the ring around 7 or 8 chinese manufacturers to get some pricing...
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    Bacon - Take two!

    Photos will be coming! Have been travelling for the last two weeks! I got back on Friday, and for the weekend, I had bacon three meals a day.. My wife thinks I am crazy, but I loved it!!
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    Bacon - Take two!

    I cut the loin up nice and thick and fried it up and it was great!! Just salty enough and plenty of smoke!! The belly I haven't cooked yet, I did cook up a cured but unsmoked belly with some fried eggs this morning, and that was good eating!! Nothing beats good bacon for breakfast! I would...
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    Bacon - Take two!

    And here finally is the result. Started smoking 10 am saturday, tended the fire and kept it in smoke until 10 pm at night, where upon I made sure there was enough fuel on the fire, and enough wood in the smoke chamber. Here are the pictures.. Attachment 3313Attachment 3314Attachment...
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    Something to try w/pulled pork

    Sounds Great Al, But looks fantastic Debi.. Pictures really do speak a thousand words!!! Makes me need to finish my hot smoker project!! Hopefully some time this weekend!!
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    Bacon - Take two!

    Second attempt has just begun, i have about 5 lbs of pork belly curing as of tonight, hope to cold smoke it on Saturday. Made a dry cure of about 1 lb brown sugar, 1 lb salt, and 1/4 lb white sugar. Then about 3 tbs black peper. On one of the bellys I rubbed some mustard, then the cure, on...
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    Offset Fireboxes

    Thanks all for your inputs!! I am one of those engineers who is a spe******t in nothing, but covers a little bit of everything.. I have fun questioning the convention, and figuring out solutions that are within the materials I have available around me!! Kueh, your talk of a wok is great and...
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    Offset Fireboxes

    This is maybe another horizontal option.. No Baffle, and a big hole just like your traditional offsets.. Attachment 3060 any thoughts? Or still same potential issue of not enough heat, particularly circulating around the bottom of the meat?
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    Offset Fireboxes

    Thanks Pyre, that makes a lot of sense!! I am thinking now maybe to eliminate the baffle, and have a middle wall that is solid at the bottom (so no ash can get through) but then highly perforated from the grate level up. I'll draw it over the weekend and post some pics.. Otherwise here in...
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    Offset Fireboxes

    Biggie, This looks great! What kind of dimensions are you working with? At a guess about 1.5- 2 feet square with 3 or 4 feet high? Have you built this, or will you build?
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    Offset Fireboxes

    Yup, same here. Free Download from the good people at Google!
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    terrible news about Jack Daniels

    I'm a beer (Cold Qingdao!!) man, with a couple of Whiskeys at the end of the night. Normally Famous Grouse or Jamesons.. Apparently you can get 'fake' JD here, so if anyone gets desperate after the stream dries up, maybe we can sort something out?!?!
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    Offset Fireboxes

    BiggieQ & Squeezy - You are both right, this will be much more difficult to get direct heat passed through. Airflow would come from 2 - 5 vents at the side, front & back of the firebox area. 'My thinking is that most heat carried through is by convection, conduction and radiation will make...
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    What else can be smoked with good flavour?

    Kueh, thanks for the link to the recipe. I will try that probably with a couple of chicken breasts first.
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    Offset Fireboxes

    Here is what I am thinking: Attachment 3021 Over all dimensions: Width 2.5 ft, depth and height both 1 ft. Starting at the left, firebox with hinged top and bottom cover for easy loading of wood/charcoal, and unloading of ash. Then 8 cm width for a baffle which will channel smoke downwards...
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    What else can be smoked with good flavour?

    Kueh, That sounds like a nice mixture. Do you use cooked or uncooked rice? Would be tempted to throw in a couple of garlic cloves into the mix!!
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    What else can be smoked with good flavour?

    I was in Beijing over the weekend and at one of the small (but expensive) import supermarkets they had bags of Kingsford Mesquite and Hickory Wood chips. Bought a bag of each to tie me over until the peach log my mother in law brought me seasons a little bit.. Hoping to cut that into smaller...
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    Offset Fireboxes

    Why are the fireboxes in offset smokers always at half the height of the meat box? Is there any good reason, other than minimising the amount of baffle required to get the smoke to the meat? After my cold smoking bacon (which was great eating!) the ambient temperature gets to 35 C during the...
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