- Sep 14, 2019
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Greetings all, Okay so the skinny on me is that I am an avid fisherman that stumbled upon a new neighbor in my condo complex that was smoking . He couldn’t have been nicer and before you know it I was bringing him fish and he was smoking it for me . He kept maybe half or less for his troubles. I was immediately hooked on smoked fish(Striped Bass/Rockfish) I made a dill sauce and it went great with the smoked fish. PS he had a few smokers and he was looking to sell one so I bought a Char broil vertical propane smoker from him. He showed me how to use it and we smoked some more fish together. Now, there is only one tray above the flame element which has a round compartment for water and the sides for wood chips. However , my neighbor said he doesn’t use the round chamber for water he just puts wood chips in there too. Anyway, I was so excited when I smoked chicken wings by myself for the first time and they unfortunately came out HORRIBlE !! , Skin was like rubber, basically inedible. I was so disappointed I didn’t try again for a few weeks later and this time I did some fish and it came out pretty good. I guess it’s a big learning curve with smoking. I can’t wait to do something else besides fish but I need to read up on here to get some tips. Just wanted to share . Thanks and Happy to be here!