smoke questions??

[lennyluminum]

I smoke on a GOSM the middle sized one. it seems that my wood chips only smoke for maybe an hour or so before i have to re-fill the box. The chips don't seem to be ash at this point just black and not smoking anymore.

does this sound right?? I use chips cause they seem to smoke better than chunks or cut wood. is there a way to get good smoke for more than an hour?

my chip box is the one that came with the smoker.

 

[justpassingthru]

First off is your smoke box cast iron? If not you might try what others have done using a cast iron skillet with the handle cut off. Mine is and I have found that if I mix some lump with my chunks it works well.

Also does your smoker have bottom vents? I bent the tabs on mine so that they will close completely and open them only at the beginning of my smoke, giving it more oxygen to start the wood and lump and then close them after it has started.

I hope that helps.

 

[miamirick]

i got the gosm big boy but it has the cast iron box also, just try to get some larger chunks and soak em first then you only have to replenish once during a smoke

 

[lennyluminum]

yes my box is cast iron but its a small one. and there is no bottom vents

 

[chisoxjim]

back when I had a GOSM, I quickly got rid of the small cast iron chip box, and replaced it with a black cast iron skillet. Worked much better.

 

[mballi3011]

I also have a gosm and that used to happen to me from time to time and all I did was crank up the temp a few degrees and thay would smoke right along. Now I ususally smoked around 240° or so for most things and then about 325° forpoultry.

 

[bmudd14474]

I use small chunks on my GOSM. I had the same issue with the chips. I have also added a piece of lump coal in my chip box and that seemed to help too.

 

[Dutch]

That's one of the issues with any of the GOSM's. You have to change out your chips; crank up your heat or move to a large pan. I still use the original cast iron pan in mine but I long ago got rid of the lid and made the move to chunks.