Chronos
Knows what a fatty is.
I had been thinking of getting away from my Bradley electric smoker for a while, specially since it's starting to die after 10 years. So, I got a used Brinkman's vertical smoker for $20 on craigslist and am doing my first burn on it today to clean it out/re-season it.
I'm using the kingsford competition charcoal. Doing about 6lbs (did my first chimney starter - man that's easy) and got it up to about 370 at first before it settled down to about 340 with all the vents open. Now I'm playing with the vents to figure out how they change the temp.
I'm searching the forum and the web for info on best fuel to use and how to manage a charcoal smoker but was wondering if anyone could readily point me to any "gospels" or words of wisdom to help me out.
I'm looking forward to this. This is going to be fun!
I'm using the kingsford competition charcoal. Doing about 6lbs (did my first chimney starter - man that's easy) and got it up to about 370 at first before it settled down to about 340 with all the vents open. Now I'm playing with the vents to figure out how they change the temp.
I'm searching the forum and the web for info on best fuel to use and how to manage a charcoal smoker but was wondering if anyone could readily point me to any "gospels" or words of wisdom to help me out.
I'm looking forward to this. This is going to be fun!