Welcome to the Blog
First let me welcome everyone to our new blog. It has been a while and I have fought this but have finally decided to create one.
I thought the best way to kick this blog off is by discussing two of my passions. One is photography and the other is cooking. SO as you can guess I take a lot of pictures of cooking. Today we took a swag at building our very own clay smoker. The smoker consists of the following items:
- 21 Inch tall clay pot
- 21 inch short clay pot
- 9 inch electric burner
- 18 inch grill grate
- smoker thermometer
- heavy duty pie pan
With these items I was able to construct basically a cheap version of The Big Green Egg. While these are very cool they are very expensive. The total cost for the items above was about 65 dollars.
Today we started our smoker with trial run of Turkey legs. We are smoking them with Hickory and Cherry Wood. Checkout the pictures of the build.
So far this seems to be pretty cool. It looks like the smoke stays quite consistent and cooks at a relatively low heat. Approximately 200 degrees. Well once the turkey is done we will let everyone know how it is.
Tomorrow we are smoking a pork butt so that should be an interesting experiment. Of all the meat I have cooked, a pork butt is something I have never tried.
