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    Temp difference top and bottom grid in CC

    Commercial ovens use fans to minimize hot spots.
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    one cooking grate or two in a horizontal tank 19.75" ID?

    This is what I did on my last build where I was working with a 24" OD air tank. I had barely enough room for 2 levels of cooking grates: This build is smaller. It's only 19 3/4" diameter inside (80 gallon tank). I just don't see how I can make two levels of cooking grates work in there. I'm...
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    How to clean the inside of the CC

    I'm the type of person who writes down what I do and how to do it in case I forget or need to go back and check. I have to qualify my thoughts with the particulars of my smoker - it was a reverse flow horizontal with a grease trench down the middle of the RF plate. The grease trench led to a...
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    Standard Reverse Flow Smoker Calculator... by DaveOmak and others... Ready to use.. rev5.. 6/19/15.

    I am coming way late to the party. My perspective is that I built a reverse flow horizontal offset smoker back about 2010, using the tribal wisdom about these ratios available then. My cooker worked like a dream! However, the numbers provided by the BBQ calculator in 2009 do *not* match the...
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    checking back in after a few years

    Hi. I live in Kirkland, Washington. I used to fabricate steel before I retired. I built a reverse flow horizontal offset trailer smoker some years ago and really enjoyed it. I used it for awhile and then sold it for good money to a caterer. He was a little leery but after 3 weeks he emailed me...
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