Talking with the owner of one of our local (BEST) BBQ eateries here in Greenville SC, about different smokers he was telling me about how good the UDS were so I decided to start doing a little research on them. I have a smoker with the SFB that I started out on about 20 years ago and then about 2 years ago I bought me a GOSM, and a 22 inch webber charcoal grill, so I decided why not give the UDS a try. All the reviews talked about how much better the taste of the ribs and other meats are cooked on one and about the long smoke times you can get out of a UDS so I decided to give one a try. I found one of our local feed and seed stores had 55 gallon drums for sale so I went to check them out. The owner said that these drums had Apple Juice stored in them. Brought it home and started the burnout process and then the sanding, priming and painting.During all of this I decided I was going with the Carolina Gamecock Theme to my cooker since I am a huge Gamecock fan, and have some Clemson Tiger fans I wanted to show it too and cook them some good ribs on. I finished it up last week with the curing process and then smoked a couple racks of ribs on it Saturday and they turned out AWESOME. The smoker held steady at 235deg. for the full cook. Thought I would add a few pictures of the build and the a few pics of the ribs. Hope you enjoy, because I know I sure did..
Completely sanded down to the metal inside and out.
Painted the outside with 200 deg. high heat primer.
Then painted with high heat black.
Here is the finished product!! The silver wire out the side is my lead to my Maverick thermometer.
The Gamecock on the side I cutout of a piece of thin steel plate and then painted. I off set it from the smoker with some spacers which gave it a pretty cool effect.
Here are a few pics of the ribs. Rubbed down with Jeff's rub and then coated with brown sugar and sat in the fridge all night covered. Now ready to go on the grill!!!
Finally ready to enjoy the what all that labor and hard work was for. But I enjoyed every minute of it!!
I didn't take a picture of the charcoal basket but it looked just like this one. I used it as my go by with a few mods.
I have got a couple more things I still need to do to it. One is to add a screw in thermometer which I have ordered and should be here this weekend.
Completely sanded down to the metal inside and out.
Painted the outside with 200 deg. high heat primer.
Then painted with high heat black.
Here is the finished product!! The silver wire out the side is my lead to my Maverick thermometer.
The Gamecock on the side I cutout of a piece of thin steel plate and then painted. I off set it from the smoker with some spacers which gave it a pretty cool effect.
Here are a few pics of the ribs. Rubbed down with Jeff's rub and then coated with brown sugar and sat in the fridge all night covered. Now ready to go on the grill!!!
Finally ready to enjoy the what all that labor and hard work was for. But I enjoyed every minute of it!!
I didn't take a picture of the charcoal basket but it looked just like this one. I used it as my go by with a few mods.
I have got a couple more things I still need to do to it. One is to add a screw in thermometer which I have ordered and should be here this weekend.
