I got the smoke pistol mounted on the electric ECB.
Then I got a brainfart and bent a piece of stainless mesh in a cradle to hold wood pellets - and drove around for 2 hours looking for wood pellets without finding them. (I know I'm gonna get some pitches for the AMNPS, and I will get one, but I can't afford the AMNPS/pellets order just yet. Maybe that's what I'll get myself for Christmas this year.)
I did call around and found a sporting goods store in North Canton that had some cherry & hickory pellets, I'll get them tomorrow.
So I'm using the smoke pistol for the first run. I stopped at Aldi and picked up 8 oz pcs of Colby-jac, pepper jack, NY sharp chedda, Colby and mozz.
I put a pecan cartridge in the pistol and voila! This thing needs to be tended to about every 30 -45 minutes. I think maybe longer if your using a high setting, but I'm not sure yet. Note to self, mount it next to the door so you can reach in to clean it out when it needs it, not way over on the other side of the smoker. I may gnaw my left arm off after a few more beers, it smells that good.
It's been in since ~2:30, but I am getting no color as of 5:30. It's on the top shelf, under the dome and the highest temp the middle shelf has gotten is 51 F, so I'm not in danger of melting. The chamber is filled with smoke and it wisps out of the lid/body junction.
Here's pics of the start: (there's more smoke than that coming out)
Then I got a brainfart and bent a piece of stainless mesh in a cradle to hold wood pellets - and drove around for 2 hours looking for wood pellets without finding them. (I know I'm gonna get some pitches for the AMNPS, and I will get one, but I can't afford the AMNPS/pellets order just yet. Maybe that's what I'll get myself for Christmas this year.)
I did call around and found a sporting goods store in North Canton that had some cherry & hickory pellets, I'll get them tomorrow.
So I'm using the smoke pistol for the first run. I stopped at Aldi and picked up 8 oz pcs of Colby-jac, pepper jack, NY sharp chedda, Colby and mozz.
I put a pecan cartridge in the pistol and voila! This thing needs to be tended to about every 30 -45 minutes. I think maybe longer if your using a high setting, but I'm not sure yet. Note to self, mount it next to the door so you can reach in to clean it out when it needs it, not way over on the other side of the smoker. I may gnaw my left arm off after a few more beers, it smells that good.
It's been in since ~2:30, but I am getting no color as of 5:30. It's on the top shelf, under the dome and the highest temp the middle shelf has gotten is 51 F, so I'm not in danger of melting. The chamber is filled with smoke and it wisps out of the lid/body junction.
Here's pics of the start: (there's more smoke than that coming out)
