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Propane Possibilities with AJ Harrison
Living Free in Tennessee - Nicole Sauce
Propane vs Charcoal for Barbecue
They discuss the choice between barbecue with propane or charcoal, including flavor differences and safety regulations for propane tanks.
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Speaker 2
That makes sense. Okay, this is the most important question of the entire show. Do you barbecue with propane
Speaker 1
or charcoal? So I do charcoal, but mostly what I do is pellets. I'm a caterer in my daily life. That's how we pay the bills. And a lot of what we do is done with pellet smokers and stuff. And so I don't really stray from that. I keep a big stockpile on hand, but it's the age old debacle. Charcoal has a little bit better flavor, but sometimes you just want to grill a steak or a hamburger real quick and be done. And then in Montana, where we have extreme fires, we can't actually use charcoal to cook with for a couple months a year, which is peak barbecue season.
Speaker 2
Also true. Can you put an awning on top of the tank? What about building around the tank? What's the safety thing there? So
Speaker 1
the rule of thumb is you want at least 60% exposure, because that propane is going to when it expands and if it does vent, it's going to fall. And so you want that gas to be able to go somewhere and dissipate. You don't want it like in a building, because if it does vent and you open it up and there's a spot, you're just going to have propane pouring out. So you can put a cover on it. You can put like a three-sided lean to that's got some open space on the sides. That's cool. A lot of construction companies and big plants that have tanks where they fill their forklift cylinders and stuff like that. That's how they store them.
Speaker 2
That makes sense. So if I was going to build a place outside to put my propane tank so they don't get rained on, I could do sort of like a covered three-sided thing with shelves.
Speaker 1
Yeah. And that's the goal that we have for this place is to actually move that fill station out of the yard and put it in a three-sided structure that also doubles as our wood shed. So we don't have to have a unit asker here. We can build on things and have the propane tank going lengthwise pushed up against one side. You can put your propane, you want about three or four feet on either on all the sides around it for servicing and working on it. But then you could stack your tanks up against the other side. And then you could run your firewood all the way up along the other side of it.
Speaker 2
Yeah. 30-day reviews. I'm worried about them getting rained on because it rains like 60 inches here a year. And I have a rust problem to keep up on all my tanks. So my recertification dates are not my problem. My problem is when rust takes over and the guys like that is just too rusty. So I have a regular cycle of maintaining rust spots. And I feel like if I could avoid them getting wet all the time, perhaps that would slow that down. Yeah.
Speaker 1
POR 15 works really well for kind of encapsulating and stopping that. And then just keeping them on concrete is the best surface to have any tank on because it's going to wick some moisture as you move through the cycles. But it's not going to hold the moisture there up against the metal. And so we set commercial and large tanks on concrete for that reason as well. So concrete or even like a steel surface. As soon as you move into like a wood shelf or just having it on bare dirt, you're starting to have issues.
Speaker 2
Yeah. And I'm talking about my 20 pound tanks, not my pig. Why would
Speaker 1
you want to have that closed? You want to have that out in the open?
Speaker 2
Yeah. The pig's fine. Actually, I wouldn't. Well, I don't have it painted as a pig because it's a rented tank. But I started looking at how people paint their propane tanks. And I was like, man, there's lots of good ideas out there that are kind of funny. And then I don't have to build because my my actual rented one, I would like to build a three-sided thing around. So I don't have to look at it. That's also like prime wasp territory up under the thing that covers the valve and everything. So yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, we're kind of towards the end of the hour, AJ, how do people interact with you? What other things do you do? How can they spend money on your tasty freeze-red treats, for example? So
Speaker 1
I have a podcast that I do three times a week. It's called preparing for prosperity. That's a number four in there. It's kind of long, but it's okay. So my website is preparing for prosperity.com. And I'm working with another member of the community right now to try to build a actual website where people can purchase stuff. I do the three shows a week. Typically, Monday is going to be a catch up. Wednesday is devoted 100% to freeze-drying, except for today because I wanted to be on Nicole's show. And so I've started a series where we're starting with the bare basics of freeze-drying and we're moving through the progression of a new owner and things that you can do, things that work well on tips and tricks. So that's Wednesdays. And then Friday, I try to be a little bit more detailed and actually go into a topic that might be interesting for that aspect. So all the social medias is at preparing for prosperity. Try to listen to your marketing stuff and make everything the same. And then I'm going to be adding a website that is kind of a simpler one that goes to everything, but I haven't done that
Speaker 2
yet. So, one thing at a time. So guys, preparing for prosperity.com, that's with the number four, not the word four. And I have put the link in the description of the YouTube live and it will be in the show notes. AJ, thanks for being on
Speaker 1
today. And well, hold on one more second. I'm going to be doing a 100 subscriber giveaway on YouTube. I'm trying to work with somebody that makes coffee and do a coffee giveaway as well as my mom is building a business where she does laser engraving. So we're going to do a coffee cup laser engraving with our logo on it and some sort of coffee thing to go along with it to get to 100 subscribers on YouTube. So if you wouldn't mind pop over to my channel, hit like, hit subscribe. And then there's a mailing list on our website for you to start doing the mailing list. Awesome. Thanks so much.
Speaker 2
Thank you.
Speaker 3
See you always next time.
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