OT; garbage can smoker & ribs (kinda long)

A friend at work was talking about needing a smoker. He knows how good the egg is because I won't shut up about it. He was saying he wanted to build one. I told him about some garbage can smokers I had seen so we began to look on the net for some.

I was surprised when he called me the next day and said "I'm on the way to lowes, wanna go?" Like any good friend "I said sure I'll go with ya!" See that's what's wrong with the world today...no one goes to lowes to look at garbage cans with their friends anymore. :laugh: JK.

When we got there, we began brainstorming about how to make it work. We went home, cut out the bottom, drilled holes, added bolts to hold the grates, and cut an old freon cylinder in half to make a fire box.









We cooked on it a couple of times and today was the first low and slow.

I learned to cook ribs, butts, chicken, etc. on the egg so this has taken a lot of learning. It obviously don't hold a candle to the egg but just to sit around and visit with folks all day and cook, it was pretty fun.

On the ribs I coated with bat byrons and then brown sugar. They actually turned out very good.







Just something to play with