Bradley Forum Farewell Post
Greetings, fellow smokers,
For over 20 years, our Bradley Smoker Forum has been a hub for sharing tips, recipes, and camaraderie. We've loved being a part of your smoking journey and connecting with such a passionate community.
As societal circumstances evolve, our priorities must also adapt. After thorough deliberation, we have reached the challenging decision to discontinue the forum at the beginning of 2025.
Embrace the journey! We invite you to join our vibrant private Bradley Smoker Facebook Group, where you can share your smoking experiences, ask questions, and connect with fellow enthusiasts.
Click here to join the group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/BradleySmoker/) and keep the smoking conversation going.
We appreciate you as an essential member of the Bradley Smoker family.
Thank you for your support!
Keep on smokin'!
What a shame! Sorry Mr Bradley facebook just doesn't cut it for me. See y'all down the road.
Will the forum disappear entirely from the website? It would be a shame to lose all of the recipes that have been contributed and accumulated over the years. If the forum is to be eliminated entirely, would you consider establishing a section for the contributed recipes on the website?
What terrible news! Completely agree with KyNola. Although I rarely post much anymore, I'm still a regular visitor and literally rely on the vast experience of all the members here. I still look up recipes, and revisit old posts... including my own to remind myself how I did a certain thing that I did once 10 years ago and forgot what I did.
I hope you (Bradley support... is it still you Brian?) reconsider or perhaps make arrangements for this to be archived somewhere even if only read-only.
Personally, not a mainstream social media person and definitely not a Facebook user.
Not particularly surprised by this announcement because the halcyon days of the forum have long gone of which I have many happy memories.
Conversely the forum contains a mass of information that is relevant and useful to current and future customers covering a myriad of subjects including recipes, recipe advise, technical issues and fixes for all things Bradley.
Presumably Bradley are not looking to discard this gold mine of information because in my view this would be totally unacceptable and something of an insult to those members that contributed so much including those no longer with us.
Perhaps make it a read only archive as others have suggested to preserve the massive efforts of those committed Bradley customers?
I don't do Facebook and would rather have root canal dentistry and neither do I want to lose access to all the information and PM's I have access to on the current forum.
Perhaps something of a compromise is in order here?
I would hate for this to shut down because as others have said there is so much great information here.
I do have a link for susan minor site that has recipes in it just not sure if this is going to work but hopefully :
web.archive.org/web/20150915111431/http://www.susanminor.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?180-Our-Time-Tested-and-Proven-Recipes
Well I have tried a couple different things to get this to post but it does not work. Sorry.
Quote from: manxman on December 13, 2024, 01:41:01 AMNot particularly surprised by this announcement because the halcyon days of the forum have long gone of which I have many happy memories.
As do I... I was just fondly recalling that box full of Bradley smoked kippers you sent me when I still lived in London! I've been 10 years back in Canada now, but checking in and seeing so many familiar names still active has been nice. Also noting with sadness the loss of other long term familiar voices, I only just saw the news about Hab... we had a lot of conversations over the years.
Quote from: ExpatCanadian on December 13, 2024, 08:28:03 AMQuote from: manxman on December 13, 2024, 01:41:01 AMNot particularly surprised by this announcement because the halcyon days of the forum have long gone of which I have many happy memories.
As do I... I was just fondly recalling that box full of Bradley smoked kippers you sent me when I still lived in London! I've been 10 years back in Canada now, but checking in and seeing so many familiar names still active has been nice. Also noting with sadness the loss of other long term familiar voices, I only just saw the news about Hab... we had a lot of conversations over the years.
10 years!? Blimey how time flies this is one of many happy memories of the camaraderie on the forum back in the day so to speak. I am still using some of the original metal spacer pucks and a wire rack holder that were despatched across the pond from this era.
Still use Oldman's recipe site from time to time, this link appears to work or at least it did... seems a bit intermittent!?
https://web.archive.org/web/20150915111431/http://www.susanminor.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?180-Our-Time-Tested-and-Proven-Recipes (https://web.archive.org/web/20150915111431/http://www.susanminor.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?180-Our-Time-Tested-and-Proven-Recipes)
Nice to hear from you EC.
It would also be nice if Bradley Head Office acknowledged and offered some feedback on the comments made by a couple of the old timers, I appreciate the Bradley Facebook page has been around for a good few years too and is nothing new, I am just not a fan.
Sorry to see this forum go. Like most of you here, I too visit often and read the comments. I have learned a great deal from all my brothers here and will be sad to see it end.
Thank You all who shared your knowledge and "Trade Secrets" that made my experiences smoking such a joy and love.
Sorry to see you guys go, understandable, and without Hab's, it will never be the same!
yeah, I was thinking the same thing. It seems kind of empty without Hab
There have been many iconic characters here and I wouldn't even attempt to list them as I would probably do someone a disservice and miss them out!
Most go back many years to the days when the forum was a lot more active than it has been in recent years, a constant throughout all the good times and not so good was Habs and it is him who supported and was the backbone of this forum in recent years.. a remarkable character and no it will never be the same without him.
However that is also perhaps the main reasons why the information on this forum should live on in archived form as a testament to the likes of Mike and others who gave so much time and effort to help others such as myself.
Bradley owe them a lot, they should be naming a smoker after Habs! :-)
Here, here, I agree manxman
I am sorry to see this place go. Although I do not post nearly as much as I used to I still reference this place for some things to smoke and I browse the forum several times each week to see what anyone has to share.
A now retired co-worker got me interested in Bradley smokers back in 2010 and shortly after I received mine I discovered this forum and I learned a lot. It has been a great asset to me.
TedEbear (actually, my real name is Jeff)
manmax, I am glad you were able to get the recipe site to work. It is a great help at times.
Quote from: watchdog56 on December 16, 2024, 06:41:14 AMI am glad you were able to get the recipe site to work. It is a great help at times.
Yes I still use it from time to time although the vast majority of Bradley smokes are cold smokes nowadays.
Currently got 3 sides of salmon curing in a salt / sugar cure which will be oak smoked this coming Friday and sliced / vacuum sealed with a whiskey glaze in time for Christmas gifts to family and friends not that I wont be eating my share! Done this for at least the last 10 years.
if anyone has lost, or didn't know about the old recipe site files, here they are/
https://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=37229.45
Still works!
This was a great site in its prime but everything changes over time. With that said, I wish everyone well. I just checked my bookmark and it seems to be working but dont know for how long.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150915111431/http://www.susanminor.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?180-Our-Time-Tested-and-Proven-Recipes
Quote from: mybad on December 17, 2024, 08:09:32 AMif anyone has lost, or didn't know about the old recipe site files, here they are/
https://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=37229.45
Still works!
I'm late to the party on this, but I can't seem to to download the recipe files... I'm guessing with Habs gone, his Google Drive is no longer active... says I need to request permission.
Quote from: ExpatCanadian on December 26, 2024, 09:52:27 AMQuote from: mybad on December 17, 2024, 08:09:32 AMif anyone has lost, or didn't know about the old recipe site files, here they are/
https://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=37229.45
Still works!
I'm late to the party on this, but I can't seem to to download the recipe files... I'm guessing with Habs gone, his Google Drive is no longer active... says I need to request permission.
Well, it is 2025 and it is still here. Anyway, I just saw your reply and if you click on that link that you quoted and go to reply #36 you can still d/l the recipe files in my Google Drive account.
Stay tuned guys! A member of the forum has done a ton of work to make a Google Drive file where the forum will be duplicated in its entirety. You won't be able to add to it or post anything but the forum would be preserved for reference. He has also almost completed prepping the forum so it would be accessible via the Wayback Machine, an internet archive site.
As a courtesy I have contacted Wade Bradley for his permission to post the instructions here.
Stay tuned!
Thank You KyNola
Wonderful, thanks for the update.
Lot of good memories on this board, from the Smokeout I attended to the late nights in the chat room. RIP to the friends I spend many hours in there with, who are no longer living, mainly La Quinta and CRG. Also, thank you to the rest of you, you helped me through a ton more than you will ever know, especially from 2009-2012.