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Q-talk *ON TOPIC ONLY* QUALITY ON TOPIC discussion of Backyard BBQ, grilling, equipment and outdoor cookin' . ** Other cooking techniques are welcomed for when your cookin' in the kitchen. Post your hints, tips, tricks & techniques, success, failures, but stay on topic and watch for that hijacking. |
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05-05-2017, 08:06 AM | #16 |
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Join Date: 07-29-16
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I love the new version of the pit. Can't wait to see the food pron
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05-05-2017, 08:29 AM | #17 | |||
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Join Date: 09-12-16
Location: Fulshear, TX
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For right now, it's accomplished by sliding the plate on the top back to create a slot. Cheap & cheerful approach. I had a shot of the top in the other post, but it looks like this:
I am thinking about putting a stack on it, but that would require a 4" hole in the plate, a stack (duh!) and a damper. Maybe in the future when my torch skills develop! Quote:
For a thermo, I drilled a hole in the top, and then I just drop a thermocouple down there. Since the only access to the inside of the pit is by just simply lifting the top off, I'd be concerned about breaking the probe part of the thermo off when you set it down, unless you were really careful. Also, with the thermocouple, I can feed enough wire to get it to hang right at cook level over the meat. BTW, I have a great idea for a team name: "Some Assembly Required" Quote:
This was the results from the conventional flow configuration: Those were done with rub only, no wrapping, cooked straight through at ~275°. The were freakin' delicious. Quote:
Cheap and gives you micrometer control over the intake, and you can open it way up with no restrictions. Also, remember these are just stacked blocks; the firebox is naturally leaky. Calculated dimensions for the stack is 4" x 25". The reverse flow sheet is 15.5" x 28". I may have some further tips for reducing the throat size, calcs now say it's 27% oversize, but I have ideas for reducing that. I'm going to probably draw this thing up in SketchUp so everyone can see how it goes together. Cool thing is that it's scalable. You can make it as big as you need. Blocks are cheap!
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05-05-2017, 09:15 AM | #18 |
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Made my morning !! :)
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05-05-2017, 10:22 AM | #19 |
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Join Date: 10-23-12
Location: Richmond, Va
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This is pretty epic!
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05-05-2017, 11:50 AM | #20 |
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Join Date: 06-20-15
Location: Salina, Kansas
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Season 2, Episode 6 of BBQ Pitmasters had the teams doing a whole hog on cinder block pits. It aired back in 2010. Fun to watch, really leveled the playing field.
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05-05-2017, 11:55 AM | #21 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
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Loving this - thanks for posting!
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05-05-2017, 02:46 PM | #22 |
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You surely make Hank Jr proud. A Country Boy Can Survive . This Redneck country boy loves it.
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05-05-2017, 03:50 PM | #23 |
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Way cool!
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05-05-2017, 05:10 PM | #24 |
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Location: Cavalier, ND
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Will it cook your Killer Sausage?
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05-05-2017, 06:56 PM | #25 |
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That is freaking beautiful. Thank you for sharing, and congrats!!
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05-05-2017, 07:38 PM | #26 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
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Very Cool!
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05-05-2017, 09:07 PM | #27 |
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Join Date: 04-25-16
Location: Rochester/Finger Lakes NY
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It would be a large ball valve, and sliding or rotating dampers are a lot easier and cheaper to build...BUT I hate to sound like a broken record, but the online calcs are a big pile of BS with no valid science or engineering behind them. Pay them no attention and rely on your observations and experience. You likely already know way more about cinder block pits than the guy who published the calculator.
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05-06-2017, 09:19 AM | #28 | |
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Join Date: 09-12-16
Location: Fulshear, TX
Name/Nickname : sleebs
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You bet! I originally put this together to use the "free" pecan sitting around in my yard, rather than buying pellets. I'll be able to hang it on smoke sticks and let it rip...although with summer here it'll be hard to hold temps down enough to do it. Sounds like you're still enjoying it up there!
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The online pit calculators may be a big pile of BS, but they give one a starting point and they don't seem to work too bad. Before I made the changes, the firepit was more like a rocket stove, and I'd get flames about a foot into the cook chamber...not good for holding the temps down! With the new config, even though I haven't been able to choke down the inlet to the pit, the reverse flow plate is sized for the smaller inlet, so I'm getting some benefit from that. This has helped by making the temp control of the pit more manageable. It has much less of a tendency to run away. I tend to believe the stack size, and once the fire stabilizes, a 5" round hole would provide plenty of control. I keep it pretty choked down because there's a fair bit of leakage between the blocks that feeds the fire. Sorry folks, no cook pics from yesterday. Didn't have my phone with me out there. Just did some thin pork chops, cooked slow. I will say that the heat is VERY even across the surface of the grate. No more hot spot by the firebox inlet. My bigger problem is that with all this cooking on the pit lately, I've run down my stock of pecan, hahah! Need to wait for the trees and wind to drop more.
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05-06-2017, 11:59 AM | #29 |
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[B] Sounds like you're still enjoying it up there!
Best Sausage Recipe that i have found in a long time. Have passed it on to a dozen or more.
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06-26-2017, 02:44 PM | #30 |
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Sub'd to refer back to soon. Want to build one someday. Thanks for posting.
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