Enough Smoke

[bso8870]

I am trying my first smoke Beer can chicken with a GOSM propane from walmart. It doesn'nt seem to be generating much smoke. I am using hickory wood chips and the water pan. There only seems to be a little smoke hovering above water pan. I have had bird in for about 1.5 hours. I just changed chips but the fist batch weren't overly charred and a few were still untouched.

Any suggestions?


Mike

 

[bill-n-jeanine_fl]

What are your temps?

I usually crank it up at the beginning (pre- putting the food in) to get the wood started and then back it off to cooking temps before putting the food in.

Even when I don't do that, it still seems to kick off eventually if the temps are over 200*.

Also, is the smoker box smoking? I noticed you mentioned the smoke over the water pan, but didn't mention if it's noticible out of the smoker box.

Also, can you smell it, but just not see it that much?


BnJ

 

[cubguy17]

If you can smell smoke your smoking. You should be good.

 

[jfoust]

Ditto what they said... If you can smell it, you're smoking!

I ditched that wimpy little chip box and went with an 8x8x2 cake pan, which seems to get the TBS going quicker and keeps it going much longer. It maybe takes me 15 mins from the time I touch off the burner until the smoke is rolling and it will go for a few hours before I need to top off the pan with more chips.

 

[bso8870]

I definitely smell it. I do not see it comng out of top vent. Can you show a pic of cake pan you are using?

 

[jfoust]

Don't think I have a pic of it online, but I'll snap one this evening if you want. It's basically the same as this one at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Bakers-Secret-...6668045&sr=8-2

I'd say it's a good 2x bigger than the stock little chip box.

 

[richoso1]

If you can smell it, you're usually ok. If the wood is not burning all the way through, you might have an issue with air circulation. I had that prob. with the original cast iron fire box, switched it out for a coffee can drilled with 3/8 in. holes. Problem solved... for me.

 

[bso8870]

Do I drill holes all the way around can?

 

[bso8870]

Should I put foil on bottom of cake pan? How about on top with some holes ?