My new toy

[guitarman023]

I'm pretty new to the forum, but I just wanted to share my first smoker, my parents got it for me for my birthday.  It's a RedStone charcoal smoker from Tractor Supply.

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• guitarman023
• Oct 2, 2012

 

[guitarman023]

So I've been doing a LOT of reading, man there's a lot of info out there on vertical smokers.  My smoker has a pan that is identical to the water pan to put the charcoal in and a grill grate that only sits about 1/2" off the bottom of the charcoal pan.  The pan itself has no holes at all in it, and after reading numerous articles about it, I'm thinking it needs to have a LOT of holes in it, and the grill grate needs to be more like 2" off the bottom.  Any advise?

 

[cwalk]

Use it like it is first. just to get familiar with it. You may like how it cooks without any mods. Then later on tinker with it

 

[guitarman023]

ok, sounds like a better idea than hacking it up first thing. 

 

[da83moon]

On mine I moved the bottom rack up because it was sitting directly above the heat and had no waterpan below it. I used the original top shelf rack and moved it down to half way. I then created using long screws a shelf to hold the shelf on the top and didn't put the meat hang on the lid.