NY Pork Junkie
Knows what a fatty is.
- Joined
- Sep 26, 2017
- Location
- Albany, NY
Probably 99% of the time that I'm using my PBC, I'm hanging meat, and with the stock grate, you can either hang, or use the grate, but not both, which rules out a fatty. My first attempt at cooking a fatty on my PBC consisted of me putting a fatty on the Pork Junkie pork-swing just for fun. In that thread ThingFish showed one that he had made a while back and it was awesome. You can see the picture he posted of his at the very bottom. In his, the fatty hangs vertically, so it takes up very little room in the drum. It makes adding a fatty to the smoker easy as pie! His original and probably superior version is the last pic.
I tried to think of how I could replicate his approach with what I had lying around the house. My approach consists of 50 cent tent stake and a paperclip, but by golly it works!
I basically just drilled a hole in the paperclip and then spent 30 seconds cutting a notch in the bottom of the stake with a file for the paperclip to latch onto. It held nearly 3lbs! I could have added even more weight with a longer rod. If I wanted to be real fancy, I could probably add in a SS fender washer, but I don't think that's necessary.
Anyways, it's a quick and easy solution that's cheap and easy to do. Thought I'd share. :grin:
I tried to think of how I could replicate his approach with what I had lying around the house. My approach consists of 50 cent tent stake and a paperclip, but by golly it works!
I basically just drilled a hole in the paperclip and then spent 30 seconds cutting a notch in the bottom of the stake with a file for the paperclip to latch onto. It held nearly 3lbs! I could have added even more weight with a longer rod. If I wanted to be real fancy, I could probably add in a SS fender washer, but I don't think that's necessary.
Anyways, it's a quick and easy solution that's cheap and easy to do. Thought I'd share. :grin:
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