WSM Flaking?

I had an odd occurance today on my Weber Smokey Mountain.

Now let me preface this post with the fact that I have used my WSM maybe 6 times, 8 at most, in 5 months.

This happened on a small scale before, but this time it was big.

At the top of the smoke chamber, there were large flakes of brown flaking off and exposing the original black enamel interior.

What appears to be happening is, is that smoke from the wood is leaving a thin layer of brown soot. I got some of the liquid on my fingers today, and it smelled like resin, or liquid smoke actually.

Well at the top, this dried out, and was flaking off and blowing on the meat.

Under the dome this was happening too. Tiny little specks of this brown, dried, smoke resin, was releasing from the dome.

The brisket had bacon covered in specks. I ripped off the bacon at 165 when I wrapped it. The chicken had it on its skin, but we don't eat the skin on smoked boobs.

Do I need to wash the inside of the WSM each time I use it? That seems farked up. Do I need to clean it, then brush with peanut oil?

Anyone else have this happen?

Saiko said:

Creosote, black flakey POOPIE, it's all the same

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Thanks Saiko.
This, and moreso your previous post, helped me.

I clang it, and the little chips come off.

I would offer this:
The Weber Enamal is too good at repelling stuff. At some point, it flakes off.

My ECB, that resin just becomes part of the interior. It does not flake, but adds to the sides.

I wonder is spraying the sides down with Veg oil will help. If not, I gotta clean that thiing each time out.

Well
its been almost a year, and I still get the flaky stuff on each and every cook.

pre-cook, grill brush to the unit as Seiko suggests. most of flakes off.

clean off the rest with sponge and water.

At the end of the cook, there is all this brown and black flaking POOPIE going on.

I reseasoned once scraped clean, and it still flakes each time.

What gives?

Flaky POOPIE on every cook.

Rinse the meat mod is bullshit

jminion said:

I have seen a sheet of that same stuff that flakes come off at one time, not good at a competition.
Cleaning the lid once or twice year eliminates the problem,

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thats the thing

I clean the lid 8 times a year, and it still flakes.

I don't get it.