Hi all!
GREAT success w/the three chickens that i've smoked so far.. YEE HAA!
anyway last weekend i was smokin' two birds up and now i've got a
problem w/the regulator (i think) on my GOSM 34". when i was smoking
on saturday, the flame in the smoker was small and going out! so i'm
looking at everything and low and behold the regulator is completely
caked in frost.. hummm, so i get the hose and just start a very low
stream of water on the reguator and after two to three minutes..
WHOOSH... out comes a bunch of gas and then the flame seems to be
ok.. ) but i did keep the water over the regulator until the chicken was
done.
has anyone else experienced this? and if so, is the regulator
malfunctioning or maybe the propane bottle was filled too much. i had it filled just before smoking?
(i cross posted this from the 'new smoker' thread. the reason is that i'm
going to smoke my first turkey on Tday and wanted to know if there was anything i could do to fix the situtation.)
also, the 'gosm 34' has a thermometer. should i go ahead and buy another, drill a hole in the front door, and mount it in... where just off to the side of the current thermometer, or higher or lower? i can go to bbq galore if need be, or i could buy a couple of oven therms. at the store and mount them in the smoker itself? (sigh.. confusing 'eh?) the only problem w/mounting the thermometers inside the smoker is you cannnot see what the temp. is w/out opening the door. (how dumb is that!)
oh ya, what should the temp of the smoker be when cooking a whole turkey, i've see from 220 to 250? i'm going to get a bird that weighs between 10 and 11 lbs. and figure that i'll be smoking about 7 to 7 1/4 hours.
happy smokin'!
and thanks in advance,
ron-
GREAT success w/the three chickens that i've smoked so far.. YEE HAA!
anyway last weekend i was smokin' two birds up and now i've got a
problem w/the regulator (i think) on my GOSM 34". when i was smoking
on saturday, the flame in the smoker was small and going out! so i'm
looking at everything and low and behold the regulator is completely
caked in frost.. hummm, so i get the hose and just start a very low
stream of water on the reguator and after two to three minutes..
WHOOSH... out comes a bunch of gas and then the flame seems to be
ok.. ) but i did keep the water over the regulator until the chicken was
done.
has anyone else experienced this? and if so, is the regulator
malfunctioning or maybe the propane bottle was filled too much. i had it filled just before smoking?
(i cross posted this from the 'new smoker' thread. the reason is that i'm
going to smoke my first turkey on Tday and wanted to know if there was anything i could do to fix the situtation.)
also, the 'gosm 34' has a thermometer. should i go ahead and buy another, drill a hole in the front door, and mount it in... where just off to the side of the current thermometer, or higher or lower? i can go to bbq galore if need be, or i could buy a couple of oven therms. at the store and mount them in the smoker itself? (sigh.. confusing 'eh?) the only problem w/mounting the thermometers inside the smoker is you cannnot see what the temp. is w/out opening the door. (how dumb is that!)
oh ya, what should the temp of the smoker be when cooking a whole turkey, i've see from 220 to 250? i'm going to get a bird that weighs between 10 and 11 lbs. and figure that i'll be smoking about 7 to 7 1/4 hours.
happy smokin'!
and thanks in advance,
ron-