So I think I really screwed up.I was seasoning my smoker and everything was going well. I got to the last 45 minutes and added the wood chips as the manuel states. It was fine at first, sweet smoke smell and very thing smoke. After about 10 minutes the smoke was turned to thick white smoke. I opened the door to check it and the slid the chip pan out and instead of smoldering the chips were totally on fire.
Living in an apartment I can NOT take chances so I hit it with the fire extinguisher (I have always made it a habbit to keep one right there when doing anything like this). I then turned the unit off and unplugged it. So the fire went out and as far as the big picture is concerned everything is fine.
As for the smoker though, I have a HUGE mess to clean up. I took all the racks, the water pan the drip pan and the chip pan and scrubbed and cleaned everything and they are all fine. Getting the fire extinguisher powder out of all the corners and edges though.... not coming out so well. Going to remove everything that screws in and scrub all those pieces but I still don't think I can get 100% out. So am I screwed?
Totally embarrassed and feeling stupid at this point :(
Living in an apartment I can NOT take chances so I hit it with the fire extinguisher (I have always made it a habbit to keep one right there when doing anything like this). I then turned the unit off and unplugged it. So the fire went out and as far as the big picture is concerned everything is fine.
As for the smoker though, I have a HUGE mess to clean up. I took all the racks, the water pan the drip pan and the chip pan and scrubbed and cleaned everything and they are all fine. Getting the fire extinguisher powder out of all the corners and edges though.... not coming out so well. Going to remove everything that screws in and scrub all those pieces but I still don't think I can get 100% out. So am I screwed?
Totally embarrassed and feeling stupid at this point :(