Happy Thursday SMF Friends!
If you saw a previous thread, you know I decided to downsize a little, and sell my big gravity fed cabinet smoker in favor of a Hasty Bake Smoker/Grill/Oven. Well the new pit arrived today!
It's a Hasty Bake Legacy 131. For those unfamiliar, Hasty Bake is the oldest Made-in-America manufacturer of charcoal grills in the U.S. They've been continuously built in Tulsa, OK since 1948...even longer than Webers.
Since building a couple of pits lately with direct-fire cooking capabilities, I've really become attracted to that style of cooking. But I also know I'll always want to be able to do low n slow, indirect smoking as well. The Hasty Bake is designed to do both of these cooking styles very well!
Here are a few pics of the new cooker:
It's the powder coated version - they also sell the same grill in two other finishes: all stainless steel, and a corten steel (which looks like raw steel, and I'm told develops a rust-like patina over time).
The best design feature of all Hasty Bake grills is the fully adjustable fire grate system. This crank handle on the left side of the grill controls the height of the fire basket. It'll crank all the way to a couple inches below the cooking grates, or all the down to about 20 inches below.
They recently updated their intake and exhaust dampers to these dual pinwheel-style vents.
It has a tall, full-width FB access door.
A large slide-out ash pan.
And the fire grate assembly also slides out. This gives you a view of the fire grate lift mechanism inside the FB.
They also provide a removable heat deflector - which allows for indirect, low n slow smoking.
The double cooking grates measure roughly 19" x 28", for about 530 sq. inches of cooking area.
I've got some things going today and tomorrow, so it'll be sometime this weekend before I'm able to cook on it. I'll be posting a cook thread when that happens!
Thanks for looking!
Red
If you saw a previous thread, you know I decided to downsize a little, and sell my big gravity fed cabinet smoker in favor of a Hasty Bake Smoker/Grill/Oven. Well the new pit arrived today!
It's a Hasty Bake Legacy 131. For those unfamiliar, Hasty Bake is the oldest Made-in-America manufacturer of charcoal grills in the U.S. They've been continuously built in Tulsa, OK since 1948...even longer than Webers.
Since building a couple of pits lately with direct-fire cooking capabilities, I've really become attracted to that style of cooking. But I also know I'll always want to be able to do low n slow, indirect smoking as well. The Hasty Bake is designed to do both of these cooking styles very well!
Here are a few pics of the new cooker:
It's the powder coated version - they also sell the same grill in two other finishes: all stainless steel, and a corten steel (which looks like raw steel, and I'm told develops a rust-like patina over time).
The best design feature of all Hasty Bake grills is the fully adjustable fire grate system. This crank handle on the left side of the grill controls the height of the fire basket. It'll crank all the way to a couple inches below the cooking grates, or all the down to about 20 inches below.
They recently updated their intake and exhaust dampers to these dual pinwheel-style vents.
It has a tall, full-width FB access door.
A large slide-out ash pan.
And the fire grate assembly also slides out. This gives you a view of the fire grate lift mechanism inside the FB.
They also provide a removable heat deflector - which allows for indirect, low n slow smoking.
The double cooking grates measure roughly 19" x 28", for about 530 sq. inches of cooking area.
I've got some things going today and tomorrow, so it'll be sometime this weekend before I'm able to cook on it. I'll be posting a cook thread when that happens!
Thanks for looking!
Red
