homemade smoker pics

[humpa]

I'll try this again....
http://home.comcast.net/~humpa/dsc_1210.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~humpa/dsc_1212.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~humpa/dsc_1214.jpg
Notice the doors so I can access either the top or just the bottom. No wasted heat here. Great for just replacing water pan. The stand alone burner was pretty cheap and he even put 4" legs on it for free. I have a total of less than 300 bucks for everything. NOTE...a remote thermometer is a lifesaver especially when it is cold out. Saves a lot of peeking when you could be drinking..[:)]
http://home.comcast.net/~humpa/dsc_1211.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~humpa/dsc_1213.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~humpa/dsc_1209.jpg
I just added more pics here.....

[Oldman]

Humpa looks goods. I like the dual doors for sure.

May I suggest that you reduce the size of your photos as they average 1.4-1.5 megs each. Folks with dial up will give up on seeing them long before they are loaded.

If you don't have a good editing software for pictures IrfanView is one of the very best ones and it is totally free. It will allow you to reduce not only the size, but picture quality. By reduceing the size and taken the picture quality to 75% everyone will be able to see your pictures and @ 75% of quality the eye cannot see any difference.

http://www.irfanview.com/

So that the dial up folks here can see your creation I have edited them and uploaded to my site for posting here. The three are now one running picture and it will download for a dial up in less than 18 seconds. [:D]



Olds




http://rminor.com

[humpa]

Olds...
  Thank you so much for resizing the pics....I'm getting my turkey today and will marinate it for 24 hours. Then cold smoke it for 6 hours. Then slow cook it while basting it often and I can use a drip pan also. If you try to  cook and smoke at the same time, the smoke doens't work well if the outside is wet. Wish me luck.....

[SmokinMoe]

Wow, just impressed that you even tried to do this. I always THINK of ways to improve products but I NEVER follow up or try to do it.  That is pretty impressive.  Congratulations!!

[humpa]

Smokinmoe,
   I just added a heat deflector to this unit. It will push heat evenly into all 4 corners and keep the air moving around. Somewhat like a convection fan, but I'm not ruling that out yet. Also I am going to use a ceramic plate over the burner(pizza stone). Might not need it but I'm roadtesting it out on a turkey right now. More pics to come......humpa

[humpa]

DoW
   I resized the pics to 30% of full size. My Nikon D100 camera takes 6.1 megapixel pics so I can blow them up. Check them now. I'll leave them posted anyway if you don't mind. OK? I'm doing some fine tuning as I'm cooking right now. I made a damper to block most the lower draft holes to stop smoke from coming out the BS generator feed tube. The burner works fantastic at low settings.(nice and blue flame)I'll keep everyone posted as I go..........

[Oldman]

This image is 260KB. This is your resized pic that you did.


This image is larger in size but only 44KB!

There is not much discernable image quality between the two. I reduce the quality to 70% on the second image.

The only time you would use 100% is when looking at minute items for maximum detail or for printing out an image.

Thus size deduction alone is not enough when you consider dial ups. In fact still 1/2 of all who are on the net still dial in. [:D]

http://rminor.com

[humpa]

Thanks DoW..........I got it..

Hey Doc...I'm down to 2 racks a day!!!

[Mardi]

Take a look at this one.  It's so cool!

http://www.barrelsoffunstore.com/catalog/barrel-smokers.htm

[Oldman]

Ya it looks neat but I would not begin to call a direct unit a refined smoker....

http://rminor.com