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Been making jerky at home the last 5 years, and now have progressed onto smoking. First ever experience of US bbq was at a small restuarant in Daytona Beach FL back in 1999 just never thought about doing it myself.

Currently working with an ECB that Ive modified, and still can do a little more to help that. Only been doing ribs through the summer which went down well with all that tried them, looking forward to picking up tips for other stuff on the forums

Noticed that there are a few others in Cambs on here and wondering what kit you use as Im trying to decide on my next purchase?

Hi and welcome!

Not from Cambs but I'm an advocate of building a UDS, after successfully upgrading to one from a modded ECB myself. You wouldn't believe how much better it is cooking on a UDS!

Grab yourself a pork shoulder - pulled pork is extremely easy, very forgiving to temp spikes etc so a good final hurrah for your ECB

(though, I've found mine an excellent cold smoking chamber, so it refuses to die!)

Hi and welcome to the forum! Im from Cambs, Ramsey to be precise, nice to see another local here

I'm just over the border, in Market Deeping.

Most of my cooking is on a Traeger pellet grill, but I also have a cheap Kamado.

Ayup, I'm in Crowland so only just up the road from you. I've not put any posts on this forum yet but will have to get some pics of my smoker up here as it'll maybe give me enough of a prod to actually use the thing after spending so much time building it

so what did you build?

Looking at building a horizontal smoker, just cant see myself with a UDS

From what I understand (and I may well stand corrected!), horizontal smokers are much harder to maintain a constant temperature on, which is why the more expensive, modern smokers are vertical (like the WSM for example).

Size also becomes an issue and most of the horizontal smokers I've seen have quite small fireboxes compared to that in a large bullet smoker or a UDS.

The trials of temperature control and constantly rebuilding the fire on the ECB just seem like a distant memory now!

cowboy54 wrote:so what did you build?

Looking at building a horizontal smoker, just cant see myself with a UDS

SOrry for the extremely long delay in posting, I built an Ugly Drum Smoker.

I like the lid - and the fact that you have our flag the correct way up.