I've been using a COS for a few months now and saw a smoker for sale I needed to jump on. It comes from a guy who was a welding student and made a smoker for a project, but never used it after it was done.
I seasoned my COS when it arrived and everything seemed to work well. My question is: do I need to do anything differently now that I'm using a smoker that's coming from a person in a shop as opposed to a company that sends the grill out clean? Do I need to wash it/vacuum the inside before putting on the oil and lighting it up? I've never had a customer made smoker, and it seems a bit dirty inside compared to the one I got out of the box.
Here's the smoker, plus the pork belly I bought to smoke this weekend. Any help is greatly appreciated, very excited to try a smoker that is properly made and should keep temp a lot more than my COS
I seasoned my COS when it arrived and everything seemed to work well. My question is: do I need to do anything differently now that I'm using a smoker that's coming from a person in a shop as opposed to a company that sends the grill out clean? Do I need to wash it/vacuum the inside before putting on the oil and lighting it up? I've never had a customer made smoker, and it seems a bit dirty inside compared to the one I got out of the box.
Here's the smoker, plus the pork belly I bought to smoke this weekend. Any help is greatly appreciated, very excited to try a smoker that is properly made and should keep temp a lot more than my COS