Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

a friend has a pitboss and likes it, bout the same as a Traeger just not as expensive...

 

I bought my Char Griller pellet pooper at Lowes for around $400, or half the cost of a Traeger, and it's been working great for years. They don't carry that one any more, but have Pit Boss brand now. If you have Lowes in your area look at the Lowes website and read the reviews. They seem to be very good smokers, highly rated, at about 1/2 the cost of a comparable Traeger. Some reviewers are previous Traeger owners.

https://www.lowes.com/search?searchTerm=pit+boss

 

Weld in a flange.

 

GMG will go on sale next month.

 

More so than they are currently?

And correct me if Im wrong... I dont see a hopper clean out door on the GMG if I wanted to change pellet flavors?

 

Love my Traeger, actually maybe next year I'm going to upgrade to their newer one so I get WiFi and all that. I was working on a replacement board for my current one using a raspberry pi but that project got turned into building a propane smoker out of a commercial fridge.

That one should hopefully be done in the next few weeks, just ordered a socket for the chip I'm using to get values from the meat and unit probes.

I looked at the RecTec also and they are built real well I'm just not a fan of their looks and sadly enough looks matter lol.

 

Come home from work to find this waiting for me. Shes a keeper.

 

Look what followed me home from work today. Big Horn pellet pooper. It was returned as defective. I tested it in my shop ran perfectly. Basically someone used for a cook and brought it back. Manager let me have it for 50% off. I walked out with it, 20lbs of Lumberjack hickory pellets and two watermelons
for $166.54 after my 15% employee discount.

 

I need to take your route home and see if it works for me

 

I'll be in Alabama next month. You just hold on to that for me and I'll pick it up shortly. Mm K? Thanks!

 

You going to be in the Athens area I assume? Best thing is that Foodland (local chain) has butts on sale for 99cents a pound

 

probably didnt plug it in

 

Making a quick run to Blount County (Cleveland) to help mom do some thing with her farm - her husband passed recently...) Since my dad passed, I dont really have a reason to go all the way up to Athens any more And I'd prefer to stay as far away from his widow as possible. I dont want to go to jail...

 

Doing some charcoal burgers tonight,

 

Tenderloin, not quite as strong a flavor as it has when it's right off the smoker but still good.

 

Brats on the grill. Still using the charcoal from last night. Damn this thing is efficient.

 

Brisket thief

 

Dats some cheap brisket! Or really really small... Ones I see at Costco are $50 and up. EACH.

 

its Texas and HEB...

 

Yup HEB Texas has packers for $1.96 a lb so a full packer is about $24-$30