Decided to play around with the Little Chief tonight since i'll be smoking salmon in it tomorrow.
I fired it up, put some chips in it and got the temp up to 155 (50 degrees out with slight wind) so I was pretty happy about that.
Then I decided to place the box over the top and wow, what a difference. The smoker temp shot up to 225! and from the looks of it, it's still climbing.
Knowing this, my plan is to smoke the salmon without the box cover for all of the smoke unless I'm not feeling good about the time it's taking and if, that's the case, i'll simply throw the box over it.
I'm using my Maverick to check the smoker temp.
I think I'll pull the box off, crack the front loading door down 7 inches and try and smoke some cheese tonight and have that and smoked salmon tomorrow! Thanks to whoevers idea that was - I can't remember.
Bryce
*** Wow up to 245 now!