Pork ribs, crispy on the outside, succulent on the inside with a smoky flavor infused throughout doesn’t Levitra Professional have to only come from a restaurant. Smoking meat at home is possible even if you don’t have the latest and greatest smoker. Use the techniques of lobster bakes at the beach combined with pit BBQ. Build a homemade smoker pit on Saturday and enjoy home-smoked meats on Sunday. Here’s how to build your own smoker pit

Building the Smoker Pit
Dig a hole in a secluded area of the yard that doesn’t get much traffic. The hole should be 3×3 feet and 2-feet deep. Surround the hole with upright posts, fencing, or big rocks on three sides so people are aware it’s there. The barrier doesn’t have to be tall; 18 inches will be fine.

Put a 6-inch layer of sand in the bottom of the pit and level it.
Stack the cement blocks in the pit. Stack them two high — total height will be 16 inches — in a rectangle shape that measures on the exterior of the blocks 24×16 inches. Stack the blocks directly on top of each other. You will need 20 blocks, six for each 24-inch long side and four for each of the 16-inch long sides. There should be a gap on all four sides of the cement blocks to the wall of the pit. The gap on the 24-inch long side of the blocks to the wall of the pit will be 6 inches. The gap on the 16-inch long side will be 10 inches. Think of it as a rectangle inside a square. Since the stack is only two blocks high or 16 inches, it doesn’t matter whether you use solid cement blocks or the ones with holes.

Cut a piece of wire mesh that is 26×18 inches. Lay the mesh over the cement blocks. Place a brick on each corner of the mesh to hold it in place. This mesh will support the cooking grid.

Smoking in the Smoker Pit
Remove the mesh and place a roasting pan with 4 inches of water on the sand in the center of the cement rectangle. Replace the mesh. Build a fire in the pit on the outside of the cement blocks in the 10 inch gaps between the blocks and the dirt sides of the pit. Use charcoal briquettes, natural charcoal or wood.

There is no fire in the middle of the pit because that’s where the pan of water is. Wait for the fire to burn down or the charcoal to be covered with gray ash. Put the meat on a grill cooking grid and then place the cooking grid on the mesh.

Add wood chunks on top of the burnt down wood or charcoal. If the chunks start to flame, spray with water until the flame goes out. Watch for a few minutes to make sure they don’t flare up again. If they do, spray again. Soak the next batch of wood in water for 15 minutes first.

Place the large piece of mesh on top of the smoking pit and cover it with aluminum foil held down with rocks.

Author Bio: Dee Power is the author of several nonfiction books, screenplays and a novel. She loves to cook healthy dinner recipes and has lots of grilling tips

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