- Jun 28, 2015
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The saddest part of our 6 month trip to South America has come. We leave in 2 weeks, and I have smoke my last meal until we return.
So what is the best way to store the smoker for 6 months. Its a American Barbecue Systems All-Star, so its a solid hunk of steel, so I am not afraid of it rusting away or anything but I don't want to spend a few days removing surface rust and repainting it when I get home in April either.
It will be spending its hibernation in Missouri, in an unheated garage. I have a custom cover for it so it will be covered with that.
Leave vents and drain open or closed? Rub it down inside and out with vegetable oil? What say you?
Naturally I am going to give it a good cleaning, then run one more good fire through it to dry it out real good before putting it to sleep. Just wondering what else I should do.
Thanks for any helps, and all the great smoking tips over the last 3 years, I will mainly be living vicariously through you for 6 months. I am taking one of Todd's 12-18" tubes and a few pounds of PitMaster Blend with me. My friend that lives there has had my food before and wants to at least learn what we can do on a propane grill with the tube. We will be high rise living in Medellin,Columbia so not much of a chance to do more than that.
So what is the best way to store the smoker for 6 months. Its a American Barbecue Systems All-Star, so its a solid hunk of steel, so I am not afraid of it rusting away or anything but I don't want to spend a few days removing surface rust and repainting it when I get home in April either.
It will be spending its hibernation in Missouri, in an unheated garage. I have a custom cover for it so it will be covered with that.
Leave vents and drain open or closed? Rub it down inside and out with vegetable oil? What say you?
Naturally I am going to give it a good cleaning, then run one more good fire through it to dry it out real good before putting it to sleep. Just wondering what else I should do.
Thanks for any helps, and all the great smoking tips over the last 3 years, I will mainly be living vicariously through you for 6 months. I am taking one of Todd's 12-18" tubes and a few pounds of PitMaster Blend with me. My friend that lives there has had my food before and wants to at least learn what we can do on a propane grill with the tube. We will be high rise living in Medellin,Columbia so not much of a chance to do more than that.