Foil, No Foil?

[twigertwig]

The lady bought me a Bradley 6 rack and I read somewhere that wraping the meat in foil or using a foil pan to catch drippings would ruin the smoker? I can't imagine why that would be, but I figured I would ask if anyone heard of this and or had any problems?

 

[mr mac]

Many of us wrap the meat in foil for many different reasons, among them are for braising the meat after its taken all the smoke it can.  Having foil or foil pans in a smoker won't hurt anything but for an electric I wouldn't lay it directly on the coil and honestly, that probably wouldn't hurt too much of anything either.

Mac

 

[gotbags-10]

I use foil pans in my electric smoke hollow every time I smoke.

 

[twigertwig]

Thanks so much Mr. mac and gotbags!

 

[kathrynn]

I use foil pans when I want to save the drippings.  Also it helps keeping the juicy mess out of the cooler. you can get a bunch of them really cheap at Sam's or Costco.

 

[mattd149]

i believe they say this so you dont put a pan in there that covers the whole grate.  It refers to hot spots and if you were to put a pan across the whole grate under the temp sensor the electric element may never shot off as it would block the heat from getting to the sensor.  i uses pans in mine and have been fine.

 

[twigertwig]

Thanks so much mattd149!