I will seems to be a pretty heavy smoke residue all over in it now. My trial smoke went pretty good just put small pile of coal in lit it with propane torch opened vents got it to 225 quickly it was smoking like a freight train then I started shutting vents back up, it settled right at 250 on the nose and sat there for 4 hours before dropping. I'm pretty sure its due to my huge basket and tiny pile of charcoal the big center of it was burning good but nothing scattered out around it was. Should I wipe it out then spray it do you think.