Ready for Phase III!

[noetic_toe]

And, with the advent of sunshine, and the waning of the raining, Phase II has come to its belated end. The steel lids are painted a lovely, gleaming obsidian black -- as black as space, as black as the recesses of my benighted soul. (That's hyperbole: my soul is not all that benighted and I'm working hard on illumination

Comments

[anonymous]

So you're gonna heat her up and /not/ cook anything...?

[noetic_toe]

That would be the initial plan. The interior needs to be seasoned; I need to see where the smoke/heat leaches from the smoking chamber; I will have to experiment a bit to learn how much fuel to use to get her up to cooking temp and how to maintain that temp by damping air inflow and chimney outflow; etc.

I'm not going to waste anything worth eating during that process. But there will be 'cue. Soon.

[gorski]

Nice.

Somebody has a name day on Dormition... just sayin'. (not that anybody observes my name day, either.)

You've got a good supply of your chosen hardwood, then, and will be bringing the whole thing up to temperature over a few hours...? (what's your poison... mix of hickory and oak, or...?)

[noetic_toe]

Hickory and oak, to be sure. I may try to even the curve with charcoal.

True enough about Dormition. However, we have two college move-ins over the subsequent two weeks -- the first on the Monday and Tuesday after Dormition (in Annapoli$). We may not be in shape to cook anything for a bit. Sadly.