All wood smoke question

[laughingpanther]

After twenty years of bullet style smokers, I bought a stick burner. I'm accustomed to using wood chips with a charcoal/wood smoke, should I use chunks for an all wood smoke?

 

[flatbroke]

How big is the firebox

 

[laughingpanther]

It's a small firebox, but gets the job done with charcoal and wood.

 

[laughingpanther]

 

[flatbroke]

can You burn enough chunks to keep a coal bed going?

 

[flatbroke]

I would keep the charcoal base or lump for heat and add wood from there.

 

[laughingpanther]

can You burn enough chunks to keep a coal bed going?

Probably so

 

[motocrash]

If you can process your own wood,cut and split to easily fit into the FB. Start a charcoal fire,let it settle in and add a few mini splits. If you can't make them,try to locate large chunks.

 

[SmokinLogs]

AcademySports seems to always have bags of mini logs on sale that would probably be a good fit for your fire box. They are the same brands and wood types as the chunks, just a larger product. That might make it easier to do an all wood fire.

 

[ReelFaster]

If you can process your own wood,cut and split to easily fit into the FB. Start a charcoal fire,let it settle in and add a few mini splits. If you can't make them,try to locate large chunks.

I agree with the above! I have an Okie Joe similar smoker to yours and I start out with lump charcoal for a base and from there feed it chucks and sticks of wood that I process myself.