So I finally got an AMNPS and first I want to remark on the awesome customer service from http://www.amazenproducts.com/
I had emailed Todd a few times with some questions and he responded very quickly with very informative answers. My order was shipped the same day and I received it 49 hours later, Minnesota to Georgia in 49 hours! I am very impressed with this company and will only buy pellets or any other product they have from them! Customer service means a lot to me and I will pay a little more just to get it but with http://www.amazenproducts.com/ you don't have to pay more!
Ok so on to the AMNPS in my RFB. I couldn't wait to try it out and I didn't have any meat to cook and not enough time either I just wanted to do some initial testing. First i loaded up 1 row of the AMNPS and lit it with my propane torch. While giving it the 10 minutes to get started I lit the GOSM (completely empty) to let it warm up. After 10 minutes I place the AMNPS inside my RFB:
and shut the lid. I have the top vent on the GOSM wide open and I have also cut another hole in the top to help create more draft through the cabinet. I let it burn for about 10 more minutes then (I couldn't wait) opened the door to see if any smoke was moving. At this point I couldn't see any coming out the top vents. But inside was a different story:
There a real nice flow of good TBS coming into the chamber. So I just let it burn. After an hour smoke was still flowing into the chamber and only a few of the pellets had burned but still no visible smoke out of the top vents although I could smell it, and man it smelled good! Here's the pellets after an hour:
I decided to set up the smoker to see if anything would change so I put the sand pan back in and then I just let it continue to burn and really no change in the next hour, smoke was flowing and the pellets were still burning:
After 3 hours still no change, everything is right on track with what I had hoped for. Still burning and flowing smoke into the chamber:
The row of pellets isn't even done after 3 hours so I can really see where a full AMNPS could easily last for 10 hours. This was just a quick initial test and there a few things I am already working on and some other things I want to try and as I work on these I will post my findings.
I think this was a great success, I got 3 hours of great TBS inside a propane smoker using an AMNPS and I think it would have kept going and going and going. This will make those all night brisket smokes a breeze.
I know this is kind of a drastic mod but anyone who wants to be able to use an AMNPS in a propane smoker during hot smokes might want to consider it. I have fought keeping good smoke going everytime I smoke and Todd's AMNPS is the answer to quit fighting and just let it smoke!
Thanks again Todd! and also NWDave, forluvofsmoke (Eric), and Pops for all of their advice and ideas to get me where I am at today. I couldn't have done it without SMF!!!
I had emailed Todd a few times with some questions and he responded very quickly with very informative answers. My order was shipped the same day and I received it 49 hours later, Minnesota to Georgia in 49 hours! I am very impressed with this company and will only buy pellets or any other product they have from them! Customer service means a lot to me and I will pay a little more just to get it but with http://www.amazenproducts.com/ you don't have to pay more!
Ok so on to the AMNPS in my RFB. I couldn't wait to try it out and I didn't have any meat to cook and not enough time either I just wanted to do some initial testing. First i loaded up 1 row of the AMNPS and lit it with my propane torch. While giving it the 10 minutes to get started I lit the GOSM (completely empty) to let it warm up. After 10 minutes I place the AMNPS inside my RFB:
and shut the lid. I have the top vent on the GOSM wide open and I have also cut another hole in the top to help create more draft through the cabinet. I let it burn for about 10 more minutes then (I couldn't wait) opened the door to see if any smoke was moving. At this point I couldn't see any coming out the top vents. But inside was a different story:
There a real nice flow of good TBS coming into the chamber. So I just let it burn. After an hour smoke was still flowing into the chamber and only a few of the pellets had burned but still no visible smoke out of the top vents although I could smell it, and man it smelled good! Here's the pellets after an hour:
I decided to set up the smoker to see if anything would change so I put the sand pan back in and then I just let it continue to burn and really no change in the next hour, smoke was flowing and the pellets were still burning:
After 3 hours still no change, everything is right on track with what I had hoped for. Still burning and flowing smoke into the chamber:
The row of pellets isn't even done after 3 hours so I can really see where a full AMNPS could easily last for 10 hours. This was just a quick initial test and there a few things I am already working on and some other things I want to try and as I work on these I will post my findings.
I think this was a great success, I got 3 hours of great TBS inside a propane smoker using an AMNPS and I think it would have kept going and going and going. This will make those all night brisket smokes a breeze.
I know this is kind of a drastic mod but anyone who wants to be able to use an AMNPS in a propane smoker during hot smokes might want to consider it. I have fought keeping good smoke going everytime I smoke and Todd's AMNPS is the answer to quit fighting and just let it smoke!
Thanks again Todd! and also NWDave, forluvofsmoke (Eric), and Pops for all of their advice and ideas to get me where I am at today. I couldn't have done it without SMF!!!
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