I've always been intrigued by different methods of smoking food. I had never tried burning my wood down to coals like I've seen many times on real pits for use in my offset.
I picked up a used 50 gal steel drum and turned it into a burn barrel and decided to give it a try.
After 2 smokes using this method I am abandoning it and going back to managing the fire right in my offset , I found pre burning to be very time consuming and a waste of fuel.
Any who take a look at how I made the barrel and give me your thoughts on how you like to smoke.
After smoking for a few years now and trying many methods , my method is to start with lump charcoal in my FB, and I dump 2 chimneys of white hot lump on top.
After I'm up to temp I then maintain a fire with 1 log burning to keep my coal bed.
I attempt to keep the log burning and get it combusting as soon as I put it in to cut down on the thick smoke . For me getting the seasoned wood lot quickly seems to cut Down on bad smoke and keeps it Thin and blue
Thoughts??
I filled the drum with water
Next I placed a pipe wrench over the edge , with it closed just enough so it had a little play and used a mini sledge to punch holes all the way around.
For one I didn't want to cause an explosion by using something that could cause a spark and I used water to evacuate any gases that had built up
I drilled holes and put steel rods through to keep the fire high so the coals would fall down
I cut the hole big enough to fit my flat shovel at the bottom with a sawzall
I picked up a used 50 gal steel drum and turned it into a burn barrel and decided to give it a try.
After 2 smokes using this method I am abandoning it and going back to managing the fire right in my offset , I found pre burning to be very time consuming and a waste of fuel.
Any who take a look at how I made the barrel and give me your thoughts on how you like to smoke.
After smoking for a few years now and trying many methods , my method is to start with lump charcoal in my FB, and I dump 2 chimneys of white hot lump on top.
After I'm up to temp I then maintain a fire with 1 log burning to keep my coal bed.
I attempt to keep the log burning and get it combusting as soon as I put it in to cut down on the thick smoke . For me getting the seasoned wood lot quickly seems to cut Down on bad smoke and keeps it Thin and blue
Thoughts??
I filled the drum with water
Next I placed a pipe wrench over the edge , with it closed just enough so it had a little play and used a mini sledge to punch holes all the way around.
For one I didn't want to cause an explosion by using something that could cause a spark and I used water to evacuate any gases that had built up
I drilled holes and put steel rods through to keep the fire high so the coals would fall down
I cut the hole big enough to fit my flat shovel at the bottom with a sawzall
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