Drum Smokers
HowToBBQRight
Malcom Reed
4.8 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
This week on the HowToBBQRight Podcast, we talk with Mike Brinkman from Uncle Pookie Smokers about drum smokers. We talk about a delicious Buffalo Chicken Sandwich recipe from SwineLife this weekend (4:00) and the Competition Chicken Recipe for next week (5:14). Then we talk about the first drum smokers we made (11:49) and what's the difference between a burn barrel and a smoker (17:14) why they are so simple to use (20:51) and why you don't need to worry about leaks (24:31). Then we talk about how to fire up a drum smoker (28:50), what charcoal we use in our drums (31:53) and the cheapest heat diverter out there (37:32).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Malcolm Reed's How to Barbecue Right, a podcast where we talk about barbecue, share recipes, and discuss all things delicious. |
| 0:09.5 | And now here's your host, Malcolm and Rochelle Reed. |
| 0:13.5 | Hey, welcome back to the How to Barbecue Right podcast. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm your host, Malcolm Reed, joined by my lovely wife, Miss Southern Shell, and we got a friend here with us today's shell, Mr. Mike Brinkman, Uncle Pookie Smokers. Mike, thanks for coming in, hanging out with us, man. Thank you for inviting me. Yeah, we're always good to have a guest in here. And I figure we talk about drum smokers since you're kind of into them and making the Uncle Pookie smokers and and seasonings and all that good stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Thank you. I appreciate it. Jill, what you want to kick off with today? Well, last week we had some sound issues. So we got some new microphones. Trying them out. This should fix our problem. I hope so. See if we can pookie five. There you go. Mike gets to be the first of to break them in. We're looking for an audio engineer if anybody knows. If you like working on a podcast, hey, we might have put you to work. Yeah. You can teach us with you things. We're an intern. We didn't take that route. Anybody's got to know more we do about it right i know we are not professional |
| 1:12.1 | yeah we're learning that but we'll just have to have justin back yeah we got to redo that one yeah |
| 1:17.1 | anyway we get to talk football anyway so last week it was all about football talk and in uh fantasy football |
| 1:24.5 | yeah are you on a fantasy football team i am not i I was behind the curve on that when everything was kicking off. |
| 1:31.3 | I was getting married and starting all that stuff and I missed out on all that. |
| 1:37.1 | Me and Mike, when we were living up in South Haven, we had our, was a month, at least monthly, usually wings and football night somewhere. |
| 1:46.5 | So we used to go to Mr. Peas. And Mr. Peas is hurting for us. I hadn't been there. I hadn't been there forever, man. They built the patio and everything trying to get us back in there. You still go? Yeah, yeah. You still go? Yeah, we go not as often, but not near as late as we do. |
| 1:43.8 | I love those hot honeygall wings they do. |
| 1:45.9 | They are. |
| 1:46.5 | They're really. you still go? Yeah. You still go? Yeah, we go not as often, but, uh, and not near as late as we do. |
| 2:02.0 | I love those hot honeygill wings they do. They are. They're really good. But that was, that was our. Shameless plug. Time to catch up. Yeah. For Mr. Peas. Well, that, it was one, uh, two blocks away from our old house. Oh, yeah. It was close to all of us at the time. |
| 1:59.4 | Yeah, it was convenient. |
| 2:00.5 | Maybe we can get them to open somebody to open up a two blocks away from our old house. Oh, yeah. It was close to all of us at the time. |
| 2:18.6 | Yeah, it was convenient. |
| 2:19.7 | Maybe we can get somebody to open up a wing joint between Bridgetown and |
| 2:24.0 | Hernando. |
| 2:25.6 | Yeah, well, what's the one there on 51 that's real good? |
| 2:29.4 | But they're more of a takeout place. |
| 2:31.4 | And then the Kroger shopping center? |
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