G'day there everyone!
Just thought i'd introduce myself. I've been smoking for a little while now, started off making jerky then progressed to ribs, roasts and the like. I've been a "forum lurker" around here for a while and thought i'd join up to participate in the site a bit more actively
I have a homemade wood-fired smoker. I made it myself but it never really got finished, i was so keen to fire it up! I shall finish it some day, but for now i'd rather keep 'er smokin!
Its made of an upright 44 gallon drum, and atop that sits the actual smoker barrel, which is a smaller drum sitting on its side (horizontal). It has a lid at the top with a specially measured gap that acts as a top vent. This is the roughest (or "dodgiest") part at the moment, and needs some flat metal welded to the edges to make it 100% effective.
Favourite meat to smoke is pork ribs, and favourite wood is Australian Stringybark chunks or chips, and occaisionally i buy a packet of rum-flavoured shavings / sawdust to add a little variety.
Thats about it for now, no doubt you'll be seeing me around the forum!
I'm off now to go an all-nighter rolled roast smoke! (FYI a "rolled roast" is a few wide flat strips cut from the rump of the pig rolled up and tied to form a roast.) I may be off here for a while due to work but i'll try my best to get my first Q-View up on here!
Talk to you all later! (sorry, but y'all doesnt work for us!)
Just thought i'd introduce myself. I've been smoking for a little while now, started off making jerky then progressed to ribs, roasts and the like. I've been a "forum lurker" around here for a while and thought i'd join up to participate in the site a bit more actively
I have a homemade wood-fired smoker. I made it myself but it never really got finished, i was so keen to fire it up! I shall finish it some day, but for now i'd rather keep 'er smokin!
Its made of an upright 44 gallon drum, and atop that sits the actual smoker barrel, which is a smaller drum sitting on its side (horizontal). It has a lid at the top with a specially measured gap that acts as a top vent. This is the roughest (or "dodgiest") part at the moment, and needs some flat metal welded to the edges to make it 100% effective.
Favourite meat to smoke is pork ribs, and favourite wood is Australian Stringybark chunks or chips, and occaisionally i buy a packet of rum-flavoured shavings / sawdust to add a little variety.
Thats about it for now, no doubt you'll be seeing me around the forum!
I'm off now to go an all-nighter rolled roast smoke! (FYI a "rolled roast" is a few wide flat strips cut from the rump of the pig rolled up and tied to form a roast.) I may be off here for a while due to work but i'll try my best to get my first Q-View up on here!
Talk to you all later! (sorry, but y'all doesnt work for us!)
