Sweet, Love my Genesis. You’ll get many years outta that thing.Well….I pulled the proverbial trigger.
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Took me about 3.5 hours to unpack it and get it up on my deck then put it together. Sunny and 78 deg. …it’s hot as heck on the deck for this time of year. I cooked low n slow lol!!
My old one was 18 yrs. old and still in decent shape. I gave it to a friend for his daughter to use.
And hard piped to nat gas to boot! No dang propane tanks to fool with.
Awesome brand marks!And hard piped to nat gas to boot! No dang propane tanks to fool with.
You’re right, nicko. The taste isn’t quite as good as doing them on my egg with charcoal but it’s much easier.
Tried the sear grate and zone out on a couple of reverse seared filets tonight. The lid thermometer said 625 deg. when threw them on after about 30 minutes @ 250. I know it was super hot on the grate cause the flavorizer bar was glowing red.
WOW! It was almost worth the price just for the searing part. I mean it was HOT
I have the flat griddle ordered too.
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Umm... either that's one tiny van, or them some giant dinosaur eggs!Well, my new BIG Green Egg just arrived.
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Now that's a statementWell, my new BIG Green Egg just arrived.
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) but I did help prep all the pork and got them all rubbed down prior to Steve throwing them all on the smoker later.
12-Ringer in 5-4-3-2.......
I have ringer’s custom bean recipe but haven’t made it yet. It has to be good.12-Ringer in 5-4-3-2.......
It's good. Been too long since I've made it but I rarely need that many beans lol
If you don't mind cooking with wood and charcoal, and your a handy DIY'r with basic tools you could build an ugly drum smoker like this for around $300 like I did. Used a kit from UDSparts.com abd a few extras like a hinge for the lid.
How clean does the area need to be to re-apply the high temp sealant?If you don't mind cooking with wood and charcoal, and your a handy DIY'r with basic tools you could build an ugly drum smoker like this for around $300 like I did. Used a kit from UDSparts.com abd a few extras like a hinge for the lid.
You can customize it as much as you want. I set up 2 main grate heights, but with 2 extra grates with bolts for legs I was able to use 4 grates about 3" apart to do a batch of jerky. I did spring about $60 extra to get the upright air intake tubes so that I could adjust the airflow going into the coals (therefore adjusting the temperature) without having to bend over.
BigPoppaSmokers.com also has a cool kit that i was tempted by. Everything in the kits are bolt on, so no welding needed. Hardest part was finding a used food grade barrel and then giving it a good burb and scrubbing out the remnant of the food grade epoxy lining. I did use a little food grade high temperature red RTV sealant in a few places to seal things up. The RTV sealant can be found pretty cheap on Amazon.
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I had applied it to freshly dried high temp paint under the flanges for upright air intake tubes. That part of the barrel got cherry red during the burn out of the epoxy lining abd then crinkled and warped as it cooled. I tried flatten and bang it back to shape as much as possible but it was still pretty crinkly. I just sanded off the rust and burned paint residue. Painted with a couple coats of high temp spray paint. Then once that was dry I just added plenty of the sealant to ensure that any gaps were filled up but no so much as to block the 1 1/4 hole for the pipe, then bolted it in place. Seems to have dried and adhered fine enough for that. I had pretty good temp control so that must mean the air gaps are pretty well sealed up which was my main concern. I haven't tried unbolting the pipe and pulling it off to see how well things are stuck together.
