New Camp Chef WoodWind

[kruizer]

Thanks for that. I will be running some spare ribs soon and give that a try.

 

[Geebs]

I Received a personal hand written letter from Camp Chef today thanking me for my purchase. What an outstanding company, this alone makes me extremely happy to support a company that does something like that.

 

[kruizer]

I will be attempting a 12 to 14 lb beef brisket on my pellet smoker for my birthday and am concerned about the results. Any tips you guys could give me would be greatly appreciated.

 

[airman]

Happy b-day kruizer. Good luck on the brisket. Doing baby backs on Sunday. Please let use all know
How the brisket turns out.

 

[Geebs]

I raised the cap to about 2 inches and temps seem to be staying +- 15. I am happy with that. Got some more ribs on today.

 

[kruizer]

That seems counter to the Camp Chef recommendations

 

[markh024]

I raised the cap to about 2 inches and temps seem to be staying +- 15. I am happy with that. Got some more ribs on today.

Whatever works right?

 

[Insdagator]

I am looking to possibly buy a Woodwind. I am not seeing a water pan, which I am used to having. Is it not necessary or do you all just add water in a bowl or something?

 

[kruizer]

If you want a water pan, you will have to add your own.

 

[Insdagator]

If you want a water pan, you will have to add your own.

Thank you for the reply. Further research says that the water pan is for temperature control. I guess I have been wrong on that for quite awhile. Thanks again.

 

[kruizer]

Adding a water pan in the cooking chamber will also add moisture to the cook.

 

[robwcormack]

I have a new Woodwind hopper arriving tomorrow myself. Seems odd to have to cut the harness as I thought the hopper contained all the electrical/electronic parts. I'm hoping it is just a matter of unbolting the hopper, sliding the old hopper (with auger inside) off the grill and sliding the new hopper in place.

I did have to disconnect/reconnect the wiring harness when I swapped just my controller but that was very easy and harness was well labeled and easy to reach. But the controller did not resolve my temp swing issues.

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[kruizer]

Temp swings of 25 to 30 degrees is not uncommon in pellet smokers. My Camp Chef does the same. Not to worry.

 

[robwcormack]

Temp swings of 25 to 30 degrees is not uncommon in pellet smokers. My Camp Chef does the same. Not to worry.

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[wahoowad]

I would use the Camp Chef Smoker Smokers group on Facebook for advice - they get more traffic specific to Camp Chef than here.

Sadly you have changed seemingly everything related to the combustion process. I too replaced all that crap but in the end switching to Lumberjack pellets helped mine a lot. Turns out the hickory pellets from Camp Chef and Pit Boss I was using were both causing it to run hotter than usual which upset the whole process and caused it to have temp spikes and then dips. Lumberjack, particularly cherry in my case, provides the most consistent temps.

That said, you appear to have a different issue than I did. I would recommend a totally different bag and brand of pellets if you haven't tried that. I suspect you have as usually it is the first thing to try. I admit I was skeptical as heck about trying a different brand of pellets but in the end it truly made mine perform differently.