PRE-Smoked

[englishguy]

All,
I have just finished seasoning my new smoker and have a few questions,

My smoker is the Master Forge 2 door, while seasoning (just let it heat up with some wood, water and Pan sprayed all over, i noticed that it produced a lot of of blue smoke, however upon opening the door there was very little smoke inside,

A little after 2 hours i added some chucks and turned off the propane, the temp dropped to about 100 degrees (typical outdoor temp here) but it smoked for a very long time, upon opening the door it was wall to wall smoke,

So my question id this, if i bring the smoker up to temp then turn it off to let he temp drop and the smoke to accumulate, add the meat for 2 hrs before the Temp is raised to the 275 level would this help with the flavour or would it dry out the ribs, brisket or Boston butt,

Your thoughts

Wayne
W5yne

 

[soafung]

that will be to much smoke and put he meat in the danger zone to long. the smoke exiting the smoker should be TBS or "ninja smoke". if you smell smoke, that will be enough.

 

[pineywoods]

All you want is thin blue smoke "TBS" this is where its very light or maybe not even see the smoke but smell it. Theres a saying around here "if you can smell the smoke so can the meat" For "hot smoking" which is used for any meat that hasn't been cured you will want temperatures above 200 degrees and most recommend 225-235.

 

[bbq addict]

"that will be to much smoke and put he meat in the danger zone to long. the smoke exiting the smoker should be TBS or "ninja smoke". if you smell smoke, that will be enough."

Right on the money!

Not to mention if it's white smoke, you'll end up with bitter meat!

 

[englishguy]

Learning as i go, i thought the more smoke the better i was very wrong,

While seasoning the new smoker i did have a lot of smoke and it was blue, however some was also white or gray, I'm thinking the gray came from the 3 lumps of charcoal i also added,

The temp was in the region of 250-280 maybe i need to raise the wood bowl so the wood does not burn so fast....... I love the learning curve

Thanks for the replies guys