Stick burner Qs?

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BobF

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I have been reading leanza's thread "Stick Burner A$$ whooping" and it brought up a Question. What is a stick burner?
The pics I see look mostly like what I would call an offset. Is this correct?
The reason I ask. My brother in Texas has several cookers and calls one a stick burner. Its a longish covered cooker made from welded steel. He uses sticks - small pecan limbs that all the pecan trees on his place shed all year long. Most are 1/2" to 1" diameter and by the time the tree sheds them they are nearly dry enough to burn. They light easily and don't take long to make coals. He uses this more as a grill. He also has an offset that he smokes on most of the time.
I am still relatively new to this and pardon my ignorance. :icon_blush:
 
BobF said:
I have been reading leanza's thread "Stick Burner A$$ whooping" and it brought up a Question. What is a stick burner?
The pics I see look mostly like what I would call an offset. Is this correct?
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Yes,
"Stick burner" is a euphemism for a wood burning pit. You don't have to use sticks. Chunks, splits, or even logs can be used depending on the size of the fire box.
 
This is a stick burner, I use twiggs:-D Chips, logs........

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Those pics were of some very nice (and expensive) stick burners. I would love to have any of them but, you can burn sticks in a less expensive rig too. I have to admit my prejudice here, I have an ugly drum, a weber kettle, a gasser, more than a few electric gizmos, they all have their place. They can all produce a great product, but to me cooking with well dried oak wood and nothing else for fuel is my favorite.

This is a Brinkmann Smoke King Deluxe, or commonly referred to as a BSKD AKA left handed Bandera. Paid less than a couple hundred for it new several years ago and it's still going strong. BTW, googling Bandera is how I found this forum.
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When it get's a little chilly out in the winter I bring him up to the back porch and monitor temps from the kitchen window.
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This is a Chargriller, about the same price new, he can burn wood too but not my favorite. Sure does make a big grill though.
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He can cook in the cold too with a little help. He is up for adoption.

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I would point out that even though most folks use offsets, a stick burner can also be direct fired, there are some pits that use a direct fire to cook low and slow. I think it is often a misunderstanding that low and slow has to be offset. I have done all wood cooks in a kettle for salmon and ribs, no lump or briquets, just splits of alder and oak. Works fine.
 
Looks like I really need to expand my definition of a "stick burner".

Some fine looking hardware.

Thanks again everyone.
 
bocephus said:
Im more wondering about this... do you have some pics, so I can see how you burn sticks in a spicewine?
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i didnt mean to hijack.. the traditional stickburners are all the pits shown above my spicewine. Spicewines are designed to burn briquettes or lump... I However, do burn logs in mine with lump. Then it takes tending just like a stickburner. If I want a 14 hour burn, i load the thing up with kingsford and some chunks and I use it the way spicewine designed it. But for a regular cook(to me), i like using logs in place of lump or K. I treat it the same as my Klose.



No pics, but all u would see is a log on top of a coal bed.

We start with a chimney of lump and get the pit hot. Once theres a nice coal bed, we add a split log. Treat it just like a stickburner.

Instead of adding chimneys of Kingsford and closing donw the vents, just add a log and leave the vents open.

Keep adding a log ever hour or so. If coalbed disssappears or temps drop, add half a chimney of lump and go back to adding a log every hour or so.

keep vents full open, as much as u can. I keep a split in the front of the firebox to preheat the wood throughout the cook. , so when i need to add one, i take the hot one, add it to the fire, and put another one in the front of the box.
 
BBQchef33 said:
We start with a chimney of lump and get the pit hot. Once theres a nice coal bed, we add a split log. Treat it just like a stickburner.

Instead of adding chimneys of Kingsford and closing donw the vents, just add a log and leave the vents open.

Keep adding a log ever hour or so. If coalbed disssappears or temps drop, add half a chimney of lump and go back to adding a log every hour or so.

keep vents full open, as much as u can. I keep a split in the front of the firebox to preheat the wood throughout the cook. , so when i need to add one, i take the hot one, add it to the fire, and put another one in the front of the box.
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Wow, that's just how I do it in my stick burner. Wonder where I learned that technique?:icon_wink
 
Definately NOT a Stick Burner!!!!!!!
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Great assortment of "stick burners", in fact, I just learned that I am a stick burner. I am so happy, I could cry.
 
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