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Good luck with your adventure tomorrow. Remember we all have "bad" batches, but most if not all are not that bad at all. Even most of my disasters have been tasty.
Yep, 25 lbs batch. Well actually it was 2 12.5lb batches because that's as large as my tubs are to mix it in. I ended up with just little more than an 1/8 cup per batch. Thanks for the quick responses.
I bought a pre mixed summer sausage seasoning for my venison this year. I did a first batch and it was really good, but didn't have any "kick" to it. I'm doing the rest up today, and am going to add some course ground black pepper, and idea on what ratio to add?
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Chris
I've thought about adding a PID to my build in the future. (Mine is going to be a lang clone). I'm an instrumentation technician by day, so adding this to it should be no problem. I figured a two stage PID controller with the first stage controlling a fan, and the second controlling the...
Do what I'm doing and put the rib box over the firebox. I am planning on having the usual exhaust stack on the smoke chamber, and also having an adjustable opening into the warmer/rib box for when I want to use it. In the case that I want to have more heat in there, I'm also adding an...
Don't really have much advice for you other than Great start! I have a tank that I started to cut similiar to yours, but have been sidetracked lately by another build, so it's just sitting. Keep us posted with pics and progress.
You should go up to the sausage forum and have a look. In sausage you want 20-30% fat to keep the sausage from becoming to dry ( also keeps it from crumbling). If you have an 80/20 bacon mix, I would guess your fat ratio is somewhere around 85/15, probably a little on the light side, I would...
Sorry you missed it. To give you an idea, I bought a 175 factory refurb from tool king about 3 years ago and paid 449 for just the welder. Check out the site and you should be able to come up with a good refurb unit for around that price. You're still going to have to buy the tanks, spares...
if its any consolation, I've tried several of Ryteks recipes, and found them to be a great start, but mostly bland in my opinion. Most of the recipes will need to be tweaked for personal preference. I'm not sure if that's just the way he liked them, or if he had recipes for batches of hundreds...
Its a nice rig, but I'm curious as to why someone would spend that much money on something that doesn't have a three bay sink with separate hand wash station? Its not even health department legal and seems much to large to just have for your own use?? the only way you could use it is if you...
I had almost the same situation. Do a reverse lookup on the phone number that called you if you can. They are located on the east coast. I told them to take me off their call list, the guy just laughed and told me that they would keep calling me whether I wanted them to or not. I called my...
You could always combine the two into one. Take the second tank, cut it in half, use it to surround the first with insulation in the middle and fill in the gap in the center of the two pieces with a strip of the same gauge steel. That way you could use what you already have, with just the...
When dealing with tanks that contain or used to contain explosive/flammable materials I'm never gonna tell someone to go ahead and do it because there's too much liability out there. That being said if it were me ( and its not in this situation) I would use the tank. After I took the fittings...
deltadude,
you're not going to find one from omega like you are looking at that can be calibrated easily at home. To be honest with you, those things either work or they don't. We calibrate thermocouples at work on a sixth month interval due to our quality policy. I have yet to see a...
RichT,
I'm an instrumentation technician and I spend all day convincing people that the electronics are right!! I just have a general feeling that "cheap" electronics are somehow not going to work properly. weird thing is I bought the mechanical one at gordon foods where a lot of...
I just bought 2 smart bbq remoted digital thermos at wally world on clearance for $11 each. I tried one out the other day on my new drum for a season/burn. My regular dial thermo read 250 deg while the digital read 350. Figured great, I just bought two of these cheap digitals and they're...
If you have a piece of metal that is galvanized, try the following ( I may catch some for this but we use it before welding) Go to the hardware store and get some muriatic acid and some heavy rubber gloves. avoid breathing the fumes as they will knock you on your butt. Dip the metal in...
craigslist, ebay,traderonline to start. Also if you're just building a cold smoker look for used/non-working commercial fridges and freezers, just make sure if it has any plastic in it that you remove it first. If all else fails, build the smokehouse out of wood. It will work fine and as long...
Well, its probably not exactly what you are looking for, but in looking through catalogs at work ( I do instrumentation) I found that www.omega.com has wireless thermocouple transmitters that will send the temp to your computer. They are pricy at around 200-250, but the probes (thermocouples)...
just gonna throw in my two cents worth here. I used to weld quite a bit at work and still do at home. I borrowed my uncles lincoln 130-135? It was a 110v unit for a small project i was working on. If you are gonna weld super light metal and only super light metal, you will probably get away...