- May 14, 2020
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Hi everyone!
This is my first time posting, after finding these forums today. I've been having trouble keeping the coals hot while smoking. I've tried smoking 3 times, 1: a whole chicken and 3 brats, 2: a rack of ribs, and 3: a whole chicken. Other than the brats, I've had to finish everything in the oven. I've attached 2 pictures of the smoker. The outside (before the coals went too cold) and one of the inside.
I drilled some holes in the air-vent inside of the smoker.
The first time I ran it, I just dumped coals in the bottom, after that, I've had a charcoal grate.
I'm thinking that maybe I should try some sort of charcoal basket, to keep the charcoal together, because when I dumped them out after, there were still quite a few black ones. I've used a charcoal chimney, and let the charcoal mostly go white before dumping in the smoker.
If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear, and try them out. I really want this thing to work out.
This is my first time posting, after finding these forums today. I've been having trouble keeping the coals hot while smoking. I've tried smoking 3 times, 1: a whole chicken and 3 brats, 2: a rack of ribs, and 3: a whole chicken. Other than the brats, I've had to finish everything in the oven. I've attached 2 pictures of the smoker. The outside (before the coals went too cold) and one of the inside.
I drilled some holes in the air-vent inside of the smoker.
The first time I ran it, I just dumped coals in the bottom, after that, I've had a charcoal grate.
I'm thinking that maybe I should try some sort of charcoal basket, to keep the charcoal together, because when I dumped them out after, there were still quite a few black ones. I've used a charcoal chimney, and let the charcoal mostly go white before dumping in the smoker.
If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear, and try them out. I really want this thing to work out.