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    ThermoWorks Smoke - Real world hardcore use and performance report with malfunction.

    So I built a smoker big enough to put an old fashioned "Dr. Who" type phone booth inside...  Its 7 feet tall, 4-1/2 feet deep and 3 feet wide.. We raised five pigs this year to a weight of around 450 to 500 lbs each and processed all our own meat. A couple days ago, we smoked about 200 lbs of...
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    Need smoking advice.. How much white smoke?

    Hi Wade, Thanks for the advice..    The hickory chips were NOT made by a chainsaw.. but they look like they were.. I just wanted to include that description so you folks would know I'm not using big wood blocks or fine saw dust.    My chips were purchased in a 50 lb bag from a butcher supply...
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    Need smoking advice.. How much white smoke?

    I built a gas fired oven made of stainless steel..  Its a bit larger than a phone booth (for those who remember what those are).. Anyhow, I also built one of those little smoke generators..   Mine is a 6 inch diameter steel tube about 12 inches tall and has an air-compressor powered venturi at...
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    My first Pig Slaughter + First Smoker Build + First Bacon Smoke... ever!

    I don't have pics of any of the bacon or hams yet..  maybe when we slaughter the next two I'll get the energy and time to take some photos.. But here's part of the processing operations..   My welding and fab table is a 1/2 inch plate of steel so we laid down some vinyl sheeting and turned it...
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    My first Pig Slaughter + First Smoker Build + First Bacon Smoke... ever!

    I misspoke..  they're Hampshire's (with the white band just behind the front legs) and NOT Berkshires.  I'm going to be cutting some breathing holes in the floor of the smoker right below the burner pipe..   I'll weld a door on a hinge so I can seal it up when not in use to keep the critters out.
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    My first Pig Slaughter + First Smoker Build + First Bacon Smoke... ever!

    Thanks for the info Dave..  I think I used a recipe that was similar.. I got it from a website called AmazingRibs.com    The bacon was a dry rub.. and rub we did..  we rubbed that dry mixture into every nook and cranny we could find. The hams were a wet brine method using a 5 gallon bucket and...
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    My first Pig Slaughter + First Smoker Build + First Bacon Smoke... ever!

    We bought them in November of 2015 and they weighed around 50 to 60 lbs each..   The smallest of the batch was around 450lbs, the biggest was around 525 lbs.     We bought 5000 lbs of 18% hog feed from the elevator but the winter killed us... those five pigs sucked up that 5000 lbs before we...
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    My first Pig Slaughter + First Smoker Build + First Bacon Smoke... ever!

    We used youtube to learn how to do pretty much everything..   We made mistakes, fixed em, moved forward.     These aren't your average 225 pound market hogs.. these weight 450 or more and they're big..  really big!   Even after gutting, skinning, and splitting the carcass down the spine, it took...
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    My first Pig Slaughter + First Smoker Build + First Bacon Smoke... ever!

    So as the title says, there are a lot of firsts here.. We raised five pigs this past year and got them to an average weight between 450 to 525 pounds..     We slaughtered our first pig..  what an adventure that was.. I built a smoker..  Never even seen a smoker in my lifetime except on...
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