a Londoner who's now up North (Leigh)

[supasparxs]

Hi Guys,
like any man I'm a great BBQ cook,
well it's in our jean isn't it1 (typo deliberate)

joking apart,
I've been using a BBQ for years but over the last couple of months I think I've cooked more in the garden than I have in the kitchen.

I started smoking a couple of weeks ago with a spatch-cock chicken and as I'm writing this I'm smoking a salmon fillet on a cedar plank on the fillet there is a mild mustard and brown sugar (a recipe that I saw on BBQ University a few months ago (A Tivo box is useful)

My barrel type BBQ/Smoker that we bought a few years ago in Homebase is dying and my project over the winter is to make a reverse flow BBQ/Smoker out of a few gas bottles.

Can anyone tell me where I can get some BBQ thermometers?

this seems to be a great forum

Supasparxs

[paulfire]

Welcome, I am sure that someone in this forum knows what that thing you are going to construct is and can give you advice, not me though, I only know "fire at bottom meat at top".
I am not far from Leigh, Bolton so be carefull using cylinders, you might wake us up.
Good cooking

[supasparxs]

you might wake us up.
Good cooking

I've a couple of new cylinders that I'm taking a cutting torch to......

just joking !


I have removed the valve from the first bottle tha's going to work as a fire box (and small grill)
I plan to fill it with water and use a 1mm thick 4" cutting disc.

It's a project for the Autumn/Winter not for now

Thanks for the warning

Richard

[keith157]

Is this the sort of thermometer you mean?

http://www.gardenxl.com/barbecues/acces ... hermometer

[JamsCowbell]

Tel-Tru are supposed to be the daddy of the dial type mechanical thermometers for BBQs if you're building your own, but to be honest I generally just use the thermometers on my BBQ and Smoker to see if it's in the range or not, I have a Maverick redi-check wireless one that monitors the real grill and meat temperature.

Please post pictures of your project when you do it, I wanted to build my own but didn't really have the workspace without destroying the new garden.

[supasparxs]

Tel-Tru are supposed to be the daddy of the dial type mechanical thermometers for BBQs if you're building your own, but to be honest I generally just use the thermometers on my BBQ and Smoker to see if it's in the range or not, I have a Maverick redi-check wireless one that monitors the real grill and meat temperature.

Please post pictures of your project when you do it, I wanted to build my own but didn't really have the workspace without destroying the new garden.

Right now I'm using a digital probe thermoneter, which work supplied me last yeat to measure water temperatures, and a £2 Tesco Thermometer which between them they do the job. For my proper build I will get a couple of the Tel-Tru ones for the smoker itself.

I've been looking at the Maverick, but I think I'll wait and save my pennies until I have built the new BBQ