I have turned up my nose in the past to electric and propane but now that I am making my own sausage and jerky I had a need for something different. I have been plotting this one for a couple months now and finally pulled the trigger and built my own. Hopefully I will do my first batch of summer sausage and snack sticks this weekend in it. I have a couple more things I need to do but I am pretty proud of what a buddy and I did in about 9 hours.
Me drilling holes while another buddy works on cutting out some expanded metal for his UDS.
One of the sides done.
5 hours of planning, cutting, head scratching, etc yields 30 minutes of assembly.
And the semi-finished result (yes, my garage is a mess):
For the finishing touches I want to line the bottom 1/3 with some aluminum sheets I have and I am planning on bending up some more aluminum to hold the burners and remove them from the plastic they are encased in.
Me drilling holes while another buddy works on cutting out some expanded metal for his UDS.
One of the sides done.
5 hours of planning, cutting, head scratching, etc yields 30 minutes of assembly.
And the semi-finished result (yes, my garage is a mess):
For the finishing touches I want to line the bottom 1/3 with some aluminum sheets I have and I am planning on bending up some more aluminum to hold the burners and remove them from the plastic they are encased in.