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Great info TNPC! I am already missing several digits from ruining some of the boss's household items. I'll be picking myself up one of those before I'm reduced to nubbs.

I picked up a couple of the large cement mixing tubs at Home Depot.

I've got my eyes on one of thoes plastic drum cement mixers that Lowes sales for about $175.00, for mixing rub. It will be when I have some extra money some day and get tired of hand mixing 20 or 30 lbs at a time.

Yep,we don't need to get so far into cleaning overkill that we forget to cook.

Those HomeDepot concrete tubs,are easy and worth the money.

Tom-Fl

Good point.

I use the Concrete mixing tub from Home depot.

Now, you ought to hear the fun in the house when I'm trimming contest meats, especially chicken. I agree with her, especially about any cross contamination. I use tubs, boards and knives for just contest stuff, not the house stuff.

I just try to do it when she's not around.

My solution, cheap and ultra-simple
I constructed a box with 1/4 inch luan sides and 3/4 inch pine bottom and small sides.
The inside dimensions are 3"X17"X17" I then lined it with a heavy plastic bag. A white garbage compactor bag was about perfect. One gallon of Simple Green along with one gallon of water filled the box to within one inch of top.
After a cook I let the dog have at the racks then the racks along with the side slides fit nicely down into the box. It sits inside my cabinet (another project that maybe I'll post later) A couple days later when I get around to it I pull everything and just hose off
This box can be made fit whatever unit one has. There is less slop, easier handling and better fit under smoker if it sits upright with a top.
The Simple Green solution should last, at least a year, I hope.

I just bought the Home Depot cement mixing tub and got it home only to find out that the rib racks don't quite fit in to it. Back to the store and over to Tractor supply to try the other suggestion.

They have two sizes of tubs. I measured my racks before I went

Guess I should have posted that, but I didn't think about that, sorry

Russ,
You big city dog--our podunk Home Depot has only one size. Anyway, the Tractor Supply plastic tub is perfect, plus I can use it to wash the dogs. It is made of a hard black material and easily holds the flat racks and rib racks together. It is 40 gallons, but obviously you only need to fill it up past the rack level. The simple green and the 0000 steel wool worked great too after one day of soaking. Ron

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Originally posted by SmokinOkie:
They have two sizes of tubs. I measured my racks before I went

I guess I got lucky and ended up with the large ones.

I just throw everything in a plastic tub I got at bed and bath and hit the local do-it-yourself car wash. Works great.