Hello from Florida

[pineywoods]

Hi my name is Jerry and I've been lurking for awhile. Finally bought a smoker yesterday and am gonna try smoking for the first time a total newbie.

 

[kookie]

Welcome to the site.............Glad to have you here.............What kinda smoker you get?............You might want to take the 5 day ecourse...........

 

[craig chamberlain]

Welcome Jerry to SMF,you found the place to be for smoking.

 

[pineywoods]

I got a GOSM propane not sure the model
I down loaded the PDF version so I can refer back to it
Thanks

 

[kookie]

GOSM are great smokers..........Lots of members here have them and love them.......Lots of mod on here for them too.............

 

[sumosmoke]

Welcome to the SMF family, Jerry! Glad to see more of FL represented in the forum, I'm on the east coast - 25 miles south of Daytona Beach.

Light up our skies with that TBS and definitely take that 5-day eCourse.

 

[richtee]

Welcome Jerry! I'm gonna go find a post about seasoning the smoker before you actually smoke food in it.... yer in for a wild ride, Bud... enjoy!

Here ya go: http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/for...62352#poststop

 

[travcoman45]

Welcome aboard Jerry, glad to have ya! GOSM is a great unit right out of the box. Just got mine little over a week ago and like it lots. Wash your rack, spray down everything inside with canola oil (or similar) and throw some wood in, put water in your pan and smoke, that is what the directions say, I ran mine about 3 hours. I then resprayed my racks and it was ready for use. There are a few mods I've done to mine, you don't have to, but makes using mine a little easier for me.

I installed a stack so I can smoke in bad weather and not have snow or rain run in the damper hole, I also installed a watertight fitting in the side to run my thermometer cables through rather then the door. I also use a 9X9 cake pan for my chip box rather then the one that came with the rig. I just put aluminum foil over the top of the pan and poke a couple of holes in it, helps some with flare ups.

Besure to ask questions if you have any, lots of friendly, knowledgeable folks on here willin to help! Good luck with your new smoker and your first smoke!

 

[flash]

Welcome Jerry, nice to see another Florida Sportsman member following me over here. You'll learn alot here. Lots of good folk. Hope those chicken quarters turned out to your families liking.

 

[bustedluckbarbq]

Welcome to the SMF!! get that new smoker seasoned and fired up... show some qview.... enjoy the place....