Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Apparently many people. I went to toss some boxes out that were in my office for computer supplies I had ordered at work the other day. Got all the way out there and the stupid trash container was locked. Everyone else was gone so I brought them back to my office and let them sit there till I could get the key a couple days later.

 

Ya that looks like mine, the ring on the bottom of the bowl where it holds in looks the same also. I though mine was larger that 3 quarts though and my bowl had a handle on the side. This is the owl on mine: https://www.amazon.com/KitchenAid-K...831308&sr=8-10&keywords=kitchenaid+mixer+bowl

 

Thank you sir. I will go ahead and order the $20 bowl. I don't believe I will ever have occasion to need more than 3 quarts of mixing capacity. I will keep this one in my Wish List, though. Who knows, maybe I will get lucky and it will come with one (doubt it, as it wasn't in the pic).

 

No problem at all. Ours is a beast and has been in use for quite a while now. Still works like new. Not always fun to clean lots of nooks and crannies on the head but no biggie.

 

I'm awful about working on projects that I can't start and finish in the same session (@Bigdaddy4760 is going to see my anxiety when we start building the smokers ) The whole waiting for the glue to dry aspect drives me nuts. Mixing this with the company of a friend and the looming whiskey tasting once the power tools are put away makes it more approachable.

I'll keep everyone here up to speed if/when we get some of these knocked out.

 

When we starting

 

I'll have to recheck the PM thread. Did we get some available dates figured out? I have a fair amount of availability right now, though I'd be starting in the afternoon on Saturdays. Come March, I'm pretty wide open.

 

No dates were decided, you and Zach see what’s good.

 

Yes, I saw a few units I could have bought NIB for a little bit more, but when I had the bright idea to check Goodwill (shopgoodwill.com) it made the decision easy. I used to work at Little Caesars WAAAAAAY back in the early 90s, and we made dough fresh in the store- something like 100 pounds at a time... in a bigass Kitchenaid mixer. That, and having seen that people that are serious about their cooking use Kitchenaid, told me all I needed to know. That old saw about the pain of high price lasting less time than the aggravation of poor quality, or something.

 

Ya Kitchenaid is a good brand. Even when you do have an issue (some with plastic gears) it's easy to fix and usually pretty cheap. Was looking at a Hobart commercial mixer for the wife at one point but then we would need a BIG kitchen for her to work in and upgraded electric, was a rabbit hole I didn't want to start down lol.

 

Ok.. that's amazing

 

Sounds like me with welders!

 

I’m going to get the fixins for some tikka masala this weekend.
Obviously you liked that recipe. Any tips?
This will be my first time making it.

 

Most all retailers.

 

this recipe looks good..I watched a show and lightly toasted and fresh ground spices are always better flavor.
https://cafedelites.com/chicken-tikka-masala/

 

Did some NY strips last night...



and now a pork butt is on the pooper!

 

Just tossed some burgers on to smoke for a little while then will crank up the heat and sear them up.

 

Update, had to pull at 160 and finish in the oven. I was getting an ER2 on my zgrill. It was having trouble maintaining temps about 4 hours in, kept dropping to about 130.

 

Any idea what the error code is for?

 

Supposedly it's for a temp probe short circuit. I'm gonna let it shut down then try and reignite and cycle through the temps before I give them a call.