***build thread***live fire rotisserie drum***first cook pron

[smoke ninja]

Finally got time to build the bird barrel. All hail the king.

Picked up the drum from ebijack for a smokin deal, thanks, tom



I have a weber roto ring but it doesn't fit.



Roto basket from menards, like 7 bucks


Building the charcoal basket.

I had a ring made of expanded metal lying around and place a weber charcoal grate on top of it.



Ok now to mod the weber ring to the drum.



That should do it.
What a long build, im famished.
Lets rock and roll. Ribs, seasoned and in the basket.



They've spinnning.



Have you ever had 99 minute ribs?

Stay tuned for the results...

 

[Fwismoker]

Love the southern engineering! Looks like some K&N oil on there maybe? I use olive oil :wink:

You'll have some fun with that rig!

 

[SmittyJonz]

You ain't cutting a feed the fire hole/door.?. Is that one of them manual labor rotisseries?

 

[jbounds286]

its much easier with a fire feed door! add it!

 

[smoke ninja]

Finished pron

99 minute ribs. Would have been faster but i let the fire simmer down the last half hour.

Texture was outstanding

Just a light coat of oil and a bit of 2 different commercials rubs, one even contained sugar.







Light smoke. Could've used more. Trial and error i guess.



They were very good ribs except for one thing. The free ribs my dad gave me, that i used for this cook tasted old...off...something was wrong. The meat tasted like it was reheated in a microwave. Who knows where he got it.


All in all not a bad first step into the "700 club"

 

[Fwismoker]

its much easier with a fire feed door! add it!

Josh you just burn yourself looking at your smoker though. :biggrin1:

 

[jbounds286]

Josh you just burn yourself looking at your smoker though. :biggrin1:

psssht! false!

 

[Fwismoker]

I wanna see some CSR's, yard bird pieces, stuffed burgers, brats etc... in that basket!

 

[SmittyJonz]

Maybe they tasted microwaved cuz they were cooked microwave fast........ :loco:

 

[smoke ninja]

Maybe they tasted microwaved cuz they were cooked microwave fast........ :loco:

Aren't u the 450 brisket guy?

 

[SmittyJonz]

Aren't u the 450 brisket guy?

Ya that was a one time tang...... :twitch: .... 350* is better :wink:

 

[SmittyJonz]

Try again tomorrow with different ribs. :heh:

 

[smoke ninja]

Try again tomorrow with different ribs. :heh:

Mama wants chicken.

Chicken it is.

 

[smoke ninja]

Maybe some intakes?

 

[Decoy205]

Looks tasty from here. Nice job on the quick build.

 

[Fwismoker]

Maybe some intakes?

Gotta have intakes, especially for fast start up...no charcoal required

 

[pjtexas1]

hope you are able to recover from that build in a reasonable amount of time.

 

[smoke ninja]

Looks tasty from here. Nice job on the quick build.

hope you are able to recover from that build in a reasonable amount of time.

I call this the "no build, build"

 

[ebijack]

Was that a build? :becky:
op2:op2:

 

[dport7]

I like it. Fast simple and it works. One thing, I do miss, Manards, don't have them down here. Much better than the orange guys.