{"id":4891,"date":"2013-08-02T21:05:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T04:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/02\/the-smoker-project\/"},"modified":"2013-08-02T21:05:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T04:05:17","slug":"the-smoker-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/02\/the-smoker-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smoker Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/new-smoker.jpg' title='The Smoker Project'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/new-smoker.jpg' alt='The Smoker Project' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s project was to assemble and burn-in the new smoker we just bought. It is a starter level charcoal smoker with all the features a newbie at smoking meats needs.<\/p>\n<p>Verna and I had been talking about getting a smoker for several months. Yesterday, while we were in the valley on other business, we stopped at the home improvement emporium and picked up this little beauty.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Master Forge\u00ae<\/strong> smoker took about a half hour to assemble. The instructions were clearly illustrated, and it was no problem to assemble using just a number two Philips screwdriver.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image (above) &#8211; parts, assembly, first light and smokin&#8217;. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After assembly, I took the smoker out to the driveway and started some charcoal to \u201cburn it in.\u201d That went well, and as I type, the charcoal briquettes are nearly finished after a four hour run. The built-in temperature gauge indicated smoking compatible temperatures for about two hours after it got up to 300\u00b0 or so.<\/p>\n<p>Verna and I are looking forward to the smoked brisket BBQ sandwiches we\u2019re going to enjoy having this weekend. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s project was to assemble and burn-in the new smoker we just bought. It is a starter level charcoal smoker with all the features a newbie&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-dining","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}