Re: [CH] recommend a "pepper smoker" anyone?
mstevens@exit109.com
Mon, 10 Sep 2001 20:07:19 GMT
The best overall water smoker is the Weber Smokey Mountain. It alleviates the
problems of maintaining a steady temp by introducing vented air intakes. Fully
loaded with hardwood lump charcoal these babies can chug along in excess of 12
hours at a steady 250 degrees. There's some pictures of mine at:
http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens/butt/
At 02:13 PM 9/10/01 -0500, Chad A Gard wrote:
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>>Just curious if anyone can recommend a reasonably priced smoker so I can do
>>up my abundance of Jalapenos and orange habs this year. I am sick of
>>borrowing one from my neighbors, but it appears that there are tons of
>>diffferent ones on the market available, plus lots of different options
>>(i.e., do I buy electric or charcoal?).. Any help would be muchly
>>appreciated...
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>I have one of the round charcoal ones, and must say that if I were buying a
>new one, I would go with electric. It's very challenging/annoying to smoke
>any large item, as keeping the charcoal burning hot enough to maintain the
>correct temperature yet keeping the smoke in is very difficult.
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>I helped a friend automate a homebrewed smoker made out of an old
>refrigerator and some old stove parts. If I were to do a new smoker, I
>would probably build one simmilar to his - it's not pretty, but produces
>great results inexpensively and it's very easy to get predictable,
>controllable results. Also, you can choose whether you want to hot-smoke
>or cold-smoke with no modifications to the smoker.
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>Chad Gard, CTS KB9WXQ
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