Hello, Hello, Hello! New to proper smoking

[thatdcguy]

Hello all!

I live in Washington, DC as my name might suggest.  I have long been jerry rigging my propane BBQ into a smoker, but those days are finally over.  I have received a free Masterbuilt Pro Propane/Charcoal upright smoker.  Yes.  I am like Hank Hill with Propane.  I love the stuff.  I have a chemistry background so getting to play around with a more precise energy flow makes me a happy camper.  Nothing against charcoal, but its too imprecise for a lot of my projects (by imprecise, I mean I suck at it).

Played around with my smoker and did four racks of baby backs last weekend (5 hours at 200-05) and people are still raving about them.  My next project is to make a gigantic batch of applewood smoked salt this sunday.  I have splatter screens and the like -- hoping to pump out 12 pounds in a day with all day smoking and a 5 hour cycle.  Done it before on my BBQ, but never in this quantity (Christmas gifts for friends).  

I stumbled on this forum and I look forward to learning for y'all and contributing where I can!

Cheers to the Meat!

 

[gary s]

  Good morning and welcome to the forum, from a hot again East Texas. Lots of great people with tons of information on just about                        everything

             Glad you found us, keep us posted and Pictures !!!

              Gary

 

[themule69]

Glad you joined the group. The search bar at the top of any page is your best friend.
About anything you wanna know about smoking/grilling/curing/brining/cutting or slicing
and the list goes on has probably been posted. Remember to post a QVIEW of your smokes.
We are all smoke junkies here and we have to get our fix. If you have questions
Post it and you will probably get 10 replies with 11 different answers. That is
because their are so many different ways to make great Q...
Happy smoken.
David