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a wire brush to scrape off large chunks. remove the grates and remove what is necessary to expose the bottom of the smoking chamber. Open the grease port(s) and pour in a little bit of water with a small amount of dish soap. use a brush and scrub off the grease and food; top bottom sides. do...
I used a cheap welding blanket from Menard's when cooking in 11F snowy weather. It did a great job. Make sure there is nothing to snag it on the outside and you can pull it away quickly to vent or take care of something in the cooking chamber. The blanket was something like $20.
you can create a heat sink by adding a pan of water. the excess heat will go toward warming the water. Adding a pan of water will also add moisture. Putting beer or apple juice in there doesn't matter. Your food won't absorb any flavor from that pan of water but it will help maintain...
wood fired smokers are a lot more work and require a lot more attention. Be prepared for that. It's not the kind of smoking where you can get it going and walk away for four hours or so. you have a wood fire with all the irregularities of nature associated with wood such as moisture, size and...
your smoker when burning wood will fluctuate between 270F (if you are very attentive) and about 350F. Those fluctuations are because you are burning wood instead of something refined like charcoal or pellets. So anything below 270F your fire is probably about out, but the temperature is ideal...
have used the Johnson smoker since early April 2017. The firebox is in need of a modification to remove the ash more conveniently. a plasma cut to flatten the bottom and add a detachment tray would be nice...not too thick or it will bottom out when traveling. Something must be done to more...
after mastery of this brick pit, it produces much better smoke flavor than my pull-behind reverse flow smoker and is less recovery, clean-up time. the brick pit burns slower. Just the cement blocks themselves hold heat very well. A reverse flow smoker uses wood much faster for less smoke...
I have one in my yard very similar. The blocks I use crack as does the foundation of 16x16 concrete pavers. To prevent any cracking of the concrete base it might be a good idea to put a layer of the 16x16 pavers. they are $4.00 to replace. Using charcoal directly or having a fire instead of...
the effluent pipe on a reverse flow smoker originally was not dispersing the smoke very well. A FAMCO stainless steel vacuum cap was added. with a pan of water above the smoke seemed to chill enough and disperse enough for better control
I did a fourteen hour cook using a reverse flow smoker and noticed I was going through a lot of wood to maintain a temperature of 250F. When the temperature would settle at 250F most of the wood had burned down too much. I added pre-lit charcoal from a charcoal chimney and threw in slivers of...