Using propane to fuel my ECB

[steellord]

So I won a BPS propane fish fryer at a raffle years ago and it got buried in the garage unopened. Well with the forced vacation due to the pandemic I started cleaning the garage and found the cooker and thought how could I use it with my ECB. Here are the pics of my FrankenBrinkmann! I am going to give a it a go tonight and see how it goes. I did a test heat with a pan of water in it and I could get it to a somewhat steady temperature even though it was quite windy today. Wind is supposed to die down tonight and into tomorrow.

 

[fivetricks]

Anything that helps an ECB be better is a good thing

 

[steellord]

Well this was a disappointing experiment. Even though I did smoke a nice pork shoulder using the test set up. It was very labor intensive and the burner from the BPS fish fryer was not precise enough to hold even temps. I spent most of the night adjusting the temp to try and keep it in the target range. Plus the wind made a difference too. I will be going back to using the lower section of a Smoky Joe as a coal pan from now on. But like the wife said at dinner tonight "You don't know if it will work, if you don't try it!" Well I tried it and it wasn't an utter failure, but neither was it a glowing success! LOL

 

[fivetricks]

Lots of folks install needle valves for fine tuning temps on those propane burners.

Check out the propane smoker build sub forum for examples of what I'm talking about

 

[steellord]

I'll check that out, thanks!