Electric Smoke Rings

[daveomak]

Hey @daveomak ! Do you happen to have a picture of whatever that is just out of frame to the left of your element?

Just curious how you're doing yours. Been trying a few different ways and configurations lately.

 

[fivetricks]

Yeah, lately I've been running with a foil wrapped lower burner guard and I think it's interfering with the operation of the element.. going to have to run some other method, or go back to running the element naked. Sort of a fire hazard though. Heck I don't know :-)

 

[daveomak]

I run my element on a dimmer... It very seldom runs over 400 watts.... only when I set it on high to sterilize the smoker...

 

[texomakid]

Yoder must run so that the pellets burn with a decent flame. I've never cooked on one, just a Cabela's pellet grill @ the firehouse.

You are correct. Constant flame with blower pushing light amount of air across the flame while feeding pellets as needed to control temp as set. It just a wood burning convection oven.

 

[johnmeyer]

This site uses science to attempt to explain the lack of smoke ring in electric smokers:

Smoke Ring Science

 

[zwiller]

To me, a smoke ring is for show/appearance only, so only something to focus on after you have perfected all the other aspects of the smoke with the top criteria being taste, and texture second. World famous Franklin BBQ does not have a ring and he could care less. That said, I think they ARE cool but I wouldn't worry about it until you got the above nailed. Best way to fake one is a light TQ rub, short rest, and rinse from my research. I have got my chuckies pretty much dialed in and won't be too long and I will be posting my trials for faking a ring.

 

[pops6927]

http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/a/smoke-ring-formation

This tells the story on Smoke Rings!