Great Site
By: The Rick
Gentlemen (and Pork Fat)
Nice site that you have here. With August almost over I will attempt to get the smoker started once again and come out of my cave. I will eventually get a photo or two and contribute to the blog with some of what The Rick likes to cook.
First and foremost, my tools:
Nothing fancy here. I have two smokers; a small charcoal grill that is on loan to the kid who sits next to me at work; and even a gas grill, which doesn’t get used a whole lot.
More on the smokers:
The smaller one is an 18″ trash can wannabe that was found at a garage sale. It looks like it is from 1977, because, well it is. It’s probably 30 years old but was never used. It had $10, The mother in law offered them $1 and they jumped at it. Hey, after 30 years you have to take what you can get for it, right?. It’s the basic 2 stacked pans with a diameter of maybe 12″. Small but a good starter for me a few years back.
The larger one was bought for $10 a few year ago when Pork Fat and I were out on our lunch. This is the same basic 2 pan style, has two grates for food and has a nice diameter. I might be out of my mind but it’s probably 18″ across. I have since lost the lid and now use a piece of plywood covered with a Little Mermaid towel to keep the heat in. Whatever works right?
Rick
I have heard of people using aluminum trash cans and metal mixing bowls as smokers, so I think you are doing ok. My Brinkman has a pretty good dent in it, that’s why I got if for half price from the hardware store.
Man, I can’t wait to see the pictures. You may start a revolution with the plywood/little mermaid towel covered smoker technique.
The plywood covered with the Little Mermaid towel is right up there with the rolled up pizza pan I was using several years back.
I took an aluminum pizza pan, one of the nice ones that had the little holes in it, and rolled the thing up on the edges, creating a basket, almost like a large metal taco. I then stuck ribs inside of it and laid the pan on some bricks, which were resting on top of the grate of my gas grill . Keep it away from direct heat, right? It wasn’t pretty but the ribs turned out pretty well.