nickm62388
Fire Starter
With charcoal basket am I putting that on bottom rack in firebox or the top grate in the firebox next to the opening to the cooking chamber ?
You might want to contact the manufacturer and let them know exactly what you think of their product. You might get something out of it if you layout exactly what your experience was. Make sure you get to customer service and talk to a boss as I'm sure they have a phone #. Follow up with an email too.
I am selling this POS Smoke N Pit.....After reading and trying to do every mod that everyone has said it still keeps no heat, takes forever to get heat up. Selling this on craigslist and buying a Weber Smokey Mountain like I should have done in first place. This smoker is cheaply made, and mechanically just a bad concept the way it was built. I have to save up another $150 for the smokey mountain, but for the mods and aggravation this piece of junk caused me I dont care.
Try to find some fluent in Mandarin Chinese before you call!
You might want to contact the manufacturer and let them know exactly what you think of their product. You might get something out of it if you layout exactly what your experience was. Make sure you get to customer service and talk to a boss as I'm sure they have a phone #. Follow up with an email too.
Companies just might comp you for the bs you've had to put up with. Might amount to something small, but you'll walk away with something.
JMHO..
Try to find someone fluent in Mandarin Chinese before you call!
Sparkie
They're based out of Texas so you may need to get someone that's fluent in Texan..
[h3]Mail[/h3]
The Brinkmann Corporation
Attn: Customer Service
4215 McEwen Road
Dallas, TX 75244
[h3]Phone[/h3][h4](800) 468-5252[/h4]
Local: (972) 716-4262
then I would piss on their product every chance I got everywhere I saw any reference to it. In public, if you see someone looking at it in a big box store, talk them out of the purchase. Other than that, go on and get the WSM.YA so just called brinkmann corporate and that was a useless call. They didn't do anything as I expected, and not sure why I even bothered calling. I told them they would probably go on with their day after giving them a complaint and telling them how awful their product was
Ok, two thingsI will never be cooking in my firebox. How exactly did get your chimney elbow to stay up, did you just jam it up from the inside til it got stuck up in the chimney?
I forgot to mention that I took the elbow that I had off and threw it away. It made no significant difference. I use a couple of digital thermometers to monitor the ends of the smoke chamber. I also take the basket out when grilling but I also have a 14 inch weber that sits on the table if I I'm just doing steaks. The little weber also comes in handy for getting some replacement coals ready for basket. When using your basket put some unlit coals and wood chunks on the bottom and put your hot coals on top not many or it will get away from you (it's called the "Minion Method"). That's where the little weber or any small cheap table top grill comes in handy. And don't forget the fireplace shovel for handling hot coals. And you can see my little garden rake in the picture. It's great for snatching hot grills off the smoker or just sliding them around and stirring coals too.
Yeah, Sparkie is right. My stack comes out the side just like in the picture he showed. You could always try getting it to stay by using friction. That is, buy the sleeve just a bit larger than the diameter of your smoke stack. Since they're aluminum, you should be able to crunch one end of your aluminum sleeve and simply screw it into the stack from under the cooking dome of course. There's no force on the sleeve so once its in, it stays unless you take it out for some reason.
BTW, I have grilled on my firebox and it produce some wonderful Delmonicos. I didn't use the charcoal box but simply filled with the right amount of briquettes to get the job done. I just don't grill very often but when I do, I use my propane. Just quicker and easier clean up.