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The plastic pan should also work using the ammonia cleaning method (put the grates in the pan, pour in some household ammonia - you don't have to cover the grate - and seal everything in a plastic bag for a few hours).
The part about "burning off any remaining manufacturing residue" with a hot fire and empty WSM is logical. But wasting meat just to create a smokey/greasy coating on the inside is, in my opinion, just that - a waste of meat, charcoal, and time. My WSM never tended to overheat when new...
Yep. I sure miss the days when I could walk out with a 20-pound bag of Nature-Glo for 8 bucks and change. Now, it's cheaper just to buy Royal Oak at Wal-Mart.
Do you have a restaurant supply house in your area? The one near me has lump in stock all year, since steak houses don't shut down during the winter. When I first started buying from them, their price was about $8 for a 20-pound bag. Unfortunately it has gone up so much that it's cheaper to...
The cooking grate from a Brinkmann Gourmet smoker will also work - I've been using one in my WSM for several years. As for using lump, I've been doing that for years, too, and there is no reason not to, as far as I (and hundreds of other WSM users) can tell.
I'll probably be the only one here (didn't plan ahead far enough to invite people over) so I'll probably just do wings. There's a big bag of them in the freezer, and a jar of my chicken-wing rub in the pantry, so all I need to do is add charcoal.
I've been smoking for probably 13 years, the last (almost) 10 on a Weber Smokey Mountain, and active on several other boards most of that time. I just ran across this board while looking for something else, and thought I'd join the fun.
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