electric smoker

[wes18074]

hello everyone, I have a question to ask and I need your help. I am smoking kielbasa with an electric smoker and i need to know much smoke i should give it. should i keep the damper open or closed during this process. thank for your help.

 

[so ms smoker]

     Hi Wes. I would leave the damper full open. You want the smoke to flow  rather than concentrate. Thin Blue Smoke!

  Mike

 

[jrod62]

Start with 130 degrees for an hour (no smoke ) to dry out the casings.

Bump up 10 degrees every hour until your reach 170 degrees in the smoker

start the smoke after the first hour. I add smoke the rest of the time that they are in the smoker.

When the  kielbasa IT get to 155 pull out of the smoker and give it a cold water bath. ( thats to stop the cooking process)

then let them Bloom ( hang in cool place) for few hours .

hope this helps.

 

[wes18074]

Thank you yes it does, but do I leave the damper wide open or close it 

 

[doctord1955]

Leave it open through the entire process!

 

[bear55]

Wide open thin blue smoke...

 

[daveomak]

     Hi Wes. I would leave the damper full open. You want the smoke to flow  rather than concentrate. Thin Blue Smoke!

  Mike

Leave it open through the entire process!

Wide open thin blue smoke...

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