Smoke Daddy Clean Up

[old poi dog]

FYI:  Yesterday I used my Smoke Daddy Big Kahuna to smoke some marlin.  After a 7 hour smoke, the inside of the Smoke Daddy was Nasty.   I  took the bottom and top off and put them in a pail of hot water that contained some laundry detergent and Simple green.  I waited 20 minutes and took a rag and round toilet bowl brush to the Smoke Daddy.  Cleaned it right up, took off all the nasty creosote and stuck on burnt chips. 

 

[dennisdocb]

I hope that is a "NEW" toilet brush......

 

[adiochiro3]

where's the Q-view (I wanna see both the marlin & the brush in action!)?

 

[mballi3011]

Yea you don't see many folks here smoking Marlin. Now marlin are really fun to catch but most of the time it's a catch and release thingy here in east side of Fla. Now you can leave off the brushing that really doesn't do anything for me.

 

[old poi dog]

I will post Q-views of the Smoked Marlin on the next Smoke.  Right now I am working on uploading pictures from my PC rather than Photobucket.  I'm not sure if the problems with Photobucket have been resolved.  I have the free version of Advanced Care and I am not sure if it is good enough to catch any bugs that are imbedded in their pop up ads.  I know that  was an issue a few months back.

Until the Q-views are up:

I make a simple brine of 1 part shoyu,  1 part water, 1 part brown sugar, and Grated ginger. I also add chili pepper flakes for slight heat.  (You could add fresh course ground pepper if you wanted).

I cut the marlin fillet into 2 inch by  4 inch strips.  Then I put the marlin in the brine in a ziplock bag.  I'll let em soak in the refrigerator for 4 days....Lomi every day.  (Flip the baggie and massage daily)

Then into the smoker at 150 degrees at 7 hours.  With the Smoke Vault in combination with the Smoke Daddy, I could maintain the 150 degrees and still pour on the smoke.  Without the smoke Daddy, the lowest   I could get the smoker was 190 degrees and for the wood I was using, (madacamia nut) I couldn't get the consistant smoke I needed.