Late white smoke

[Dwmackay]

Greeting,

I need some advice. I set my BGE up to smoke 2 8lb butts last night. Added the PartyQ for stable temp and all was good.

In setting up the egg, i roughly created 3 layers of coals, each with a mix of hickory chunks and normal lump. This morning I`m sitting on the porch drouling over the fantastic smells wafting around after about 13 hours at 235 degrees. Suddenly, I started smelling the bitter white smoke you get when you first light the grill. Im glad I was outside so I quickly took the butts off, wrapped them in butcher paper and tossed them in the oven to finish up.

Should I have not put the chunks in the bottom layer? Not sure what caused it or if I should have even worried about it. It just went from smelling awesome to terrible.

Here is what was left of the charcoal after i removed the plate setter.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/f64T1255cWgVWMWeA

Any advice is welcome

Doug M.

 

[ravenclan]

Looks like the fire didn't get enough air

 

[daveomak]

I agree... Too much fuel for the air supply... maybe inlets plugged... air flow blocked... hard to know for sure.. maybe the wood to charcoal ratio changed..

 

[Dwmackay]

Thanks for the advice. Odd thing is it was perfect for 13 hours and then started to get the bad smoke.

I'll try to laod the wood differently next time.

 

[Jonok]

Wonder if some grease found its way someplace it shouldn’t have and heated things up a bit...

 

[rc4u]

just seems odd that there is wood not even burned after 13 hrs of steady 235. has to be air flow but then temps would have risen, not a bad thing but less fuel if you had that and little more air. I get late white after hours then adding more chunks , goes away fast and never a problem

 

[hardcookin]

Did the ashes plug your grate up on the bottom?

 

[rc4u]

again seems if ashes plugged vent it would have to be progressive and his as stated steady temp seems not viable with that problem