How to use the brinkmann smoke 'n pit

[moughler]

How do you use the smoker side box on the brinkmann smoke 'n pit. Ours seems to burn the wood to quick and not heat up like it should. Thanks

 

[jirodriguez]

Moghler.... welcome to the forum. Don't forget to head over to Roll Call and introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about yourself and your smoking equiptment.

Now for your smoker..... look in the forum for charcoal smoakers. You smoker is what we call a horizontal offset smoker - meaning the smoke chamber is set off to the side, it is very similar to the Char-griller and Char-broil smokers. With these types of smokers there are some very easy and cheap mods you need to make to turn them into a good smoker.

1. Use heavy duty dryer tube to lower the exhaust stack down to level of your main cooking grates inside your smoker.
2. Either purchase or build a charcoal basket for your firebox, this allows you to use the minion method which is where you get long burn times.
3. Make some sort of baffle and/or tuning plate to help even out the heat distribution from the firebox side to the non-firebox side of your smoker.
4. Get good thermometers! The factory therms are usually off by 50°-100° and will screw up your cooking.

I also highly recomend you sign up for the free 5 day e-course on the home page. It will start you off with some good solid basic info.

Best of luck and don't be afraid to holler with questions. We got a lot of good folks here willing to help.

Here is a link to a rather lengthy post that covers a lot of differant way to approach the mod's I mentioned above.

http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/forum/thread/58778/char-griller-smokin-pro-with-firebox-mods  

 

[realtorterry]

Here's another post for you to check outhttp://www.bbqinstitute.com/smokermods.htm