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Meat Master Delivers Text Messaging Smoker Just in Time for Fall Football

by Warren Riddle on September 3, 2010 at 04:15 PM

Peter Rauch's SMS meat smoker
Barbecue connoisseurs will attest that, despite the seemingly exorbitant prices, fancy smokers present the most tantalizing and mouth-watering option for slow-cooking meat. The devices also inevitably prompt lame BBQ attendees to offer a played-out, sigh-inducing, "With that price, does it cook the meat for you and tell you when it's ready?"

Well, Peter Rauch has created a DIY smoker that enables BBQ hosts to provide an emphatic and gratifying, "yes" to that question, and without draining the bank. Rauch hooked up a power modulator, a heating element, a touch-screen control panel and two temperature sensors to create a self-cooking, SMS-ing smoker. Users simply specify the preferred temperature for their cut of meat, and then wait for a text telling them it's ready. The smoker even maintains the set temperature to prevent overcooking and drying. Of course, some lazy folks may just want buy similar, existing products to accomplish these tasks, but -- if you don't want $1,000 going up in smoke -- Rauch's gift to geeky grillers serves as prime tech for tailgating season.

Tags: bbq, BBQ grills, bbq smokers, BbqGrills, BbqSmokers, diy, peter rauch, PeterRauch, smokers, SwitchedCooks, texting, top

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