Help with first time use

[masoct3]

Hello all,

I just bought the Pit Boss series 5 pellet smoker. Can you please tell me how I should smoke for a first time use before I add actual meat? Do I simply just burn the pellets alone?

Thank you kindly.

 

[mike243]

Yes fire it up per the instructions ,let it un a 10 minutes or so then bump temps up till you hit high,that should burn stuff off it good,about a hour total

 

[Rmartinez2]

Agreed. Though I let it run for a good almost 3 hours as I could still smell a non wood smell coming from the smoker. I ultimately waited till I felt the only thing I was picking up was clean wood smell