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I recently purchased a Thermoworks Smoke X2 BBQ Thermometer Alarm. I also purchased their Billows Temperature Control Fan Kit. I tried it out this morning on my smoker. The temperature in the cook chamber (CC) was 215 F and I set the desired high temperature to 250. Reading the instructions, it...
Chasdev wrote: "
"Once you get that thing up to temp you can run with the firebox door open or nearly so and manage temps by how much fuel you introduce and when you introduce it."
Way to hot if fire door left open. I need to close the vent down quite a bit to regulate temperature to my smoking...
I am conducting an experiment today trying to maintain a small hot fire rather than the very large cooler (I suppose) fires that I've used for the past 25 years or so. I wrote a post a few weeks ago when first thinking of doing this. Link is below...
My wood is not an issue. I stock up on oak from trees that have blown down in the neighborhood after a hurricane passes through every few years. I don't think that I've ever had to throw a piece of wood in my smoker that had been air-drying for less than a year, and most for several years at...
I have had very good results, and don't feel a "NEED" to change my methods. However, I am curious. One ominous thought that lingers in my head sometimes is all that wood in the firebox - what if somehow/someway the fire got more air than I had planned and the fire got away from me - left at full...
Nice work! Would you be willing to share how you designed/built the roof to your smokebox (actually, your cook chamber also)? I built mine so long ago that I forget how I did it. Key is how to install and keep firebrick on the roof? And then what is above the firebrick. I am assuming that you...
I am contemplating a radial new approach (for me) to firebox fire management on my smoker.
I have a medium sized masonry smoker that I've used for the past 25 years or so. It is an offset design (fire box to the side of cook chamber). My method of building my fire has been to fill the fire box...
Oh sure, I understand. Thanks. So I'm guessing you had a wooden frame/form for the countertop and you simply lined the inside of the form with a strip of insulation? I really like the end result!
"We poured a concrete counter. We glued fiberglass I dilation to the edge of the form to give a textured edge. Once we pulled the forms, we brushed the insulation off with wire brushes, and what little did not come off, we burned off with a torch."
What is "fiberglass I dilation"? I love your...
I do them unwrapped bone down and wrapped bone down also. And like I stated earlier, I didn't tightly wrap them in foil, but rather placed them in a foil pan bone down and covered that with foil. There was a lot of juice in the bottom of the pan when I unwrapped them. I'm guessing that is part...
Has anyone installed and used a Flame Boss firebox controller? I just stumbled across this unit today while surfing the internet. I have a wood-fired manually controlled offset masonry smoker. It holds temp pretty well after it is warmed up, but really good control like it seems this type of...