- Sep 15, 2016
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hello all
I purchased a used reverse flow smoker on a trailer a few weeks ago. It seems to smoke okay, but IMO I need a lot of fuel to get it hot and stay hot. Plus I tried to get it really hot to burn some stuff out and never really could get over 250. I have been doing a lot of reading and believe I have an undersized firebox, and 2 small of an inlet to the cooking chamber. My questions are: when calculating cooking chamber volume do you count the whole tank? Or just what’s above the RF plate? Using Feldon calculator and cooking chamber as the whole volume of the tank my firebox is 50%
If you have a small firebox should you follow all the calculations it figures for you based on the small box or should you fudge numbers to get 100% firebox and try to get the rest of the smoker to meet those calculations? Like chamber opening, rf plate gap, and opening, etc.
I’m planning on adding about a foot to the firebox to get it to 90% but that seems to be as much as I can practically add and also seems huge to me. It has and oven above it so I can really only go back with it. If I add more than a foot I wouldn’t be able to reach the front as it is already 15” deep.
Any help and advice is appreciated.
I purchased a used reverse flow smoker on a trailer a few weeks ago. It seems to smoke okay, but IMO I need a lot of fuel to get it hot and stay hot. Plus I tried to get it really hot to burn some stuff out and never really could get over 250. I have been doing a lot of reading and believe I have an undersized firebox, and 2 small of an inlet to the cooking chamber. My questions are: when calculating cooking chamber volume do you count the whole tank? Or just what’s above the RF plate? Using Feldon calculator and cooking chamber as the whole volume of the tank my firebox is 50%
If you have a small firebox should you follow all the calculations it figures for you based on the small box or should you fudge numbers to get 100% firebox and try to get the rest of the smoker to meet those calculations? Like chamber opening, rf plate gap, and opening, etc.
I’m planning on adding about a foot to the firebox to get it to 90% but that seems to be as much as I can practically add and also seems huge to me. It has and oven above it so I can really only go back with it. If I add more than a foot I wouldn’t be able to reach the front as it is already 15” deep.
Any help and advice is appreciated.
