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Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

Discussion in 'Food Talk' started by Polymerhead, Jul 15, 2012.

  1. Feb 26, 2020 at 2:16 AM
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    I kind of glossed over that one in my search since I was certain that a kamado that cheap couldn’t be any good. Looks like the reviews say other wise. This might be the one I go with. Thanks!
     
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  2. Feb 26, 2020 at 2:17 AM
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    Feel free to PM me.
     
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    My brother really likes his :)
     
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    I bought a used Akorn, added a Flame Boss temp controller and it is awesome. Burns very efficiently and will hold temp well. Biggest thing is learning not to start too big of a fire. Start it small and let the Flame Boss bring it up to temp. If you over shoot by a good bit it is hard to get the temp down to where you want since it holds the heat so well. Get a pizza stone and you can get it screaming hot for brick oven style pizza, like 1000f hot.
     
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    None....yet.
    10 days til 2 briskets and some ribs! Already looking forward to it. :drunk:
     
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    Chainsaw?
     
  13. Feb 27, 2020 at 5:26 PM
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    I'd start the spin and a sharp knife and let it go around and around...
     
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    Dang cant see IG at work
     
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    Here's a screenshot that doesn't do it justice... It's on a motorized spit over open coals

    Screenshot_20200227-194841.jpg
     
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    too uniform of cuts IMO...Looksprecise
     
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    So a spiral sliced hog. Sounds great
     
  18. Feb 27, 2020 at 5:57 PM
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    One of my favorite aspects of roasting a pig whole is the way the skin traps all the moisture and after you lift the bones out you’re left with a giant silky bowl of pork lol. It might cook faster if you score it like that but I doubt the final product would be as good.
    I’m sure it’s still delicious tho :)
    And I bet the skin in amazing
     
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  19. Feb 27, 2020 at 6:09 PM
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    Most like they have a something that’s sort of like a circular saw blade on the end of a pole that spins while the pig is being rotated. This would allow for fairly uniform rotary cuts.
     
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