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  1. murphy625

    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...
  2. murphy625

    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...
  3. murphy625

    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...
  4. murphy625

    HELP.. Ham Steaks question

    We're going to be butchering our first pig in a week or so and I've done a bunch of research.. But one thing I can't figure out is WHEN do we cut the hams into steaks? We are going to "wet-cure" our hams using the brine in bucket technique..   then we'll smoke them..  I have a Hobart meat saw...
  5. murphy625

    My fist smoker build..

    So long story short, in 2014, I took some pigs we raised to a butcher and wasn't happy with the service..   They stole half my bacon..   So I decided to process all the pigs myself from now on and that requires some equipment. One of the things I need is a sizeable smoker..  A 400 lb pig has a...
  6. murphy625

    Wood Chip Pan Question

    Hi folks, I'm building a large vertical gas smoker..  Its 7 feet tall, 4 feet deep and 3 feet wide.  I'm using a straight pipe burner I've calculated to produce about 30,000 btu's at full throttle..  My smoker is well insulated and built out of 11ga  316 stainless steel, then insulated with 2...
  7. murphy625

    Question about wood pan / wood chips with Gas Smoker

    Hi folks, I'm building a large natural gas smoker..  Its 7 feet tall, 4 feet deep and 3 feet wide.  I'm using a straight pipe burner I've calculated to produce about 30,000 btu's at full throttle..  My smoker is well insulated and built out of 11ga  316 stainless steel, then insulated with 2...
  8. murphy625

    Which Gas Burner ??

    I'm building a stainless steel smoker to be powered with Natural Gas.    My vertical smoker is 84 inches tall, 54 inches deep and 36 inches wide.   You might ask "Do you really need something so large?"..  Well, we plan on butchering our own hogs and they get pretty big.    A ham that comes...
  9. murphy625

    Newbie Here.. I have questions..

    Hi Folks, I'm a newbie to smoking meats.. never done it before.  We have some backyard pigs and I'm going to be processing the meat myself this year so I need some help if you don't mind. I have a ~800 gallon 316 stainless steel rectangular tank I'm going to be converting into a smoker but I...
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