RCBaughn
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I wanna thank everyone who has done so much work into perfecting this little smoker design. My first cook on it is coming up when my pastrami finishes curing and I can't wait!
I made this one using the plan of drilling holes in the bottom of the pot instead of cutting the whole thing out. That made it easy to set the ceramic pot plate about an inch from the bottom using an old rib rack I cut down to 1" tall. At the moment I only have one grate in here put plan on sitting another on top of the ceramic plate when I can find one that will fit perfectly in here.
I also added a handle to the bottom vent since this Smokey Joe is the Silver model and not the Smokey Joe Gold. I stole the handle from a side grinder I had, so now I have a botched grinder with no handle! Thankfully it's a cheap on and I can always pull off the handle on my Makita side grinder if I need to use the cheaper one, although I don't know why I'd use the cheap one ever anyways unless whatever I'm grinding risked overheating a grinder and burning it up.
I also bought one of the Weber tool holders and bent it to the correct roundness of the smaller diameter Smokey Joe. Without bending it the tool holder was way to wide since it was made for kettle grills, but it is very easy to bend just using a vice and brute strength. No hammer needed.
The Thermometer I bought off a guy who had a just bought a Bradley smoker like this one hereand said he planned on using the hole to run his probe through, so he sold it to me for $5.
I can't wait to use this thing. I think I am going to use Kingsford for it's first smoke instead of lump that way I can learn how to hold temps better and more consistently. Never smoked on anything but a Brinkmann electric smoker so this is new territory for me.
I made this one using the plan of drilling holes in the bottom of the pot instead of cutting the whole thing out. That made it easy to set the ceramic pot plate about an inch from the bottom using an old rib rack I cut down to 1" tall. At the moment I only have one grate in here put plan on sitting another on top of the ceramic plate when I can find one that will fit perfectly in here.
I also added a handle to the bottom vent since this Smokey Joe is the Silver model and not the Smokey Joe Gold. I stole the handle from a side grinder I had, so now I have a botched grinder with no handle! Thankfully it's a cheap on and I can always pull off the handle on my Makita side grinder if I need to use the cheaper one, although I don't know why I'd use the cheap one ever anyways unless whatever I'm grinding risked overheating a grinder and burning it up.
I also bought one of the Weber tool holders and bent it to the correct roundness of the smaller diameter Smokey Joe. Without bending it the tool holder was way to wide since it was made for kettle grills, but it is very easy to bend just using a vice and brute strength. No hammer needed.
The Thermometer I bought off a guy who had a just bought a Bradley smoker like this one hereand said he planned on using the hole to run his probe through, so he sold it to me for $5.
I can't wait to use this thing. I think I am going to use Kingsford for it's first smoke instead of lump that way I can learn how to hold temps better and more consistently. Never smoked on anything but a Brinkmann electric smoker so this is new territory for me.