This Masterbuilt offset has three cast-iron grates for the cooking chamber. I like how I can run with only one or two, and shuffle them around.
These grates had old nasty grease on them from last year and I wanted to burn them off, kind of like the cast-iron trick of re-seasoning skillets starting by putting them in a fire. Sort of a janitorial fire.
At the same time, as I'm preparing to move out of here I have a lot of stuff to get rid of. This included a damaged letter basket and a tub full of junky kindling-type wood like maple sticks and honeysuckle chunks. Add some holiday-themed red and green matches which I swear date back to the early 1980s and
We have a sort of Viking funeral for the basket.
I wanted the equivalent of a campfire flame, and I loaded up the charcoal tray. Here's the small center grate getting a sear. For some reason the pics from this part are blurry; I wonder if the flames were throwing off the auto-focus.
Here's one of the wide racks being seared. This smoker came with a little iron lifting tool which allows shuffling and moving the grates no matter how hot they are.
Half-broken pasta spoon FTW. I got rid of a lot of wood but it was all "food grade" meaning nothing painted or treated, etc.
This was by far the biggest fire I've had in the CC. I thought I should shut the lid and choke it down a bit. Here's what I got:
I've never seen that needle anywhere near there before. If that's accurate, it was hot enough to solder in there.
Today, I worked the grates over with a stiff wire brush, crumbling off the old stuff, and now they're ready for new gunk!
These grates had old nasty grease on them from last year and I wanted to burn them off, kind of like the cast-iron trick of re-seasoning skillets starting by putting them in a fire. Sort of a janitorial fire.
At the same time, as I'm preparing to move out of here I have a lot of stuff to get rid of. This included a damaged letter basket and a tub full of junky kindling-type wood like maple sticks and honeysuckle chunks. Add some holiday-themed red and green matches which I swear date back to the early 1980s and
We have a sort of Viking funeral for the basket.
I wanted the equivalent of a campfire flame, and I loaded up the charcoal tray. Here's the small center grate getting a sear. For some reason the pics from this part are blurry; I wonder if the flames were throwing off the auto-focus.
Here's one of the wide racks being seared. This smoker came with a little iron lifting tool which allows shuffling and moving the grates no matter how hot they are.
Half-broken pasta spoon FTW. I got rid of a lot of wood but it was all "food grade" meaning nothing painted or treated, etc.
This was by far the biggest fire I've had in the CC. I thought I should shut the lid and choke it down a bit. Here's what I got:
I've never seen that needle anywhere near there before. If that's accurate, it was hot enough to solder in there.
Today, I worked the grates over with a stiff wire brush, crumbling off the old stuff, and now they're ready for new gunk!
