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chrisk said:
Yeah, right.. you kiwi blokes do good smoking so I’ll take your advice. How much bourbon do I need to waste?
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I just do 75% water 25% bourbon soak of the wood before I use it. I soak the smoking wood a day in advance so it gets pretty wet. You can add more bourbon if you cant taste it on your first smoke. When I do a salt sugar mix as the base of my rub I use Molasses sugar, and Maldon salt. I use Almond wood up here which is readily available and really nice to smoke with
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sideshow said:
I just do 75% water 25% bourbon soak of the wood before I use it. I soak the smoking wood a day in advance so it gets pretty wet. You can add more bourbon if you cant taste it on your first smoke. When I do a salt sugar mix as the base of my rub I use Molasses sugar, and Maldon salt. I use Almond wood up here which is readily available and really nice to smoke with
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My Bradley smoker, as pictured, uses wood chip briquettes, been thinking about making my own briquettes, but not sure what to use as a binder. Maybe a flour and water clag, as they do with bird seed bells. By making my own I can mix and match woods and ingredients until perfected.

I can feel some beef ribs coming up for tonight’s dinner.
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I just pruned my front hedge this morning, needed a tall ladder to trim the top prior to the prune, It’s now chest high 😉…….

The Mrs came out and saw my little prune job 🧐 and said “What the fuck have you done”

I’m no Padders, but I reckon I did a pretty good job, it’ll grow back, stronger and better …….., I hope:(


Frankly, I thought I did a pretty good job.
 

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Re Canadian forest fires,.....Hey Jim, Manitoba has fires in the near north, the far north has got more rain. Depending on the wind direction it can be really smokey. Several communities without road access were evacuated to Winnipeg, where my city house is. My country home/lake cottage is close to the air base where the water bombers are based. Most evenings at dusk they fly over on their landing pproach along with what I guess are spotter planes and sometimes helicopters. Reminds me of those WW2 movies set in England when the squadron of bombers return to base.

Current headlines are that people in their boats and flying drones are interfering with water bombers trying to scoop up water on some of the more populated lakes.
 
There was some absolutely amazing drone footage years ago from a fire near Lithgow, and that was when it also caused the first issues with water bombing.
 
chrisk said:
My Bradley smoker, as pictured, uses wood chip briquettes, been thinking about making my own briquettes, but not sure what to use as a binder. Maybe a flour and water clag, as they do with bird seed bells. By making my own I can mix and match woods and ingredients until perfected.

I can feel some beef ribs coming up for tonight’s dinner.
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That’s fancy. My smoker is just a stainless steel sink, a cake rack and a lid, sitting over a gas ring. But it works. You can do what this bloke did his own bricks like you use , maybe use rice flour or corn flour as the starch , I reckon normal flour might give a burnt bread taste
 
henrywillms said:
Re Canadian forest fires,.....Hey Jim, Manitoba has fires in the near north, the far north has got more rain. Depending on the wind direction it can be really smokey. Several communities without road access were evacuated to Winnipeg, where my city house is. My country home/lake cottage is close to the air base where the water bombers are based. Most evenings at dusk they fly over on their landing pproach along with what I guess are spotter planes and sometimes helicopters. Reminds me of those WW2 movies set in England when the squadron of bombers return to base.

Current headlines are that people in their boats and flying drones are interfering with water bombers trying to scoop up water on some of the more populated lakes.
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Always good to be close to the air tanker base! I heard about Berens River and a bunch other communities got evacuated. I'm down in Castlegar now filling in for a pilot who has some personal issues to deal with. Heavy smoke and nasty fires to West, North and East ...... south is USA.

Drones and boats are always an issue ....... drones get us shut down but getting caught is a huge fine and possible jail time.

Jim
 
Castlegar - Beautiful town. BC, inspite of it's elivation is about 1/3rd the size of Northern Ontario.

I hate to discuss Southern Ontario, That being south of Parry Sound. It's all city there on end right into the States ;o(
 
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sideshow said:
That’s fancy. My smoker is just a stainless steel sink, a cake rack and a lid, sitting over a gas ring.
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Mine is even more rustic than that. It's a 200 litre drum cut off to about 2/3 height with pegs to hold 2 racks. It has a fibre cement lid and a hotplate coil from an electric stove at the bottom with a tray sitting on it that I can put wood chips in. The main reason it's cut down is that the bottom was rusted out, but it also makes it a little less bulky. There's no control knob for the heating coil, so it runs flat-out (red hot). The tray spreads the heat a bit so the wood tends to smoke rather than burn, but on one smoking session the chips burst into flames and I ended up with strips of charcoal rather than beef jerky. I reckon it needs a bit of refinement.
 
Currently snowing here. Nothing to do but stay warm today. Don't have to go anywhere till Wednesday

Made the day for the old Burmilla stud we have. Put a shorthair girl on heat in with him - and he was at work inside 30 seconds.
Pensioner power....
 
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