A weed burner is a great tool for a cabinet smoker. Gets the pit pre-warmed and the coals lit.
A weed burner is a great tool for a cabinet smoker. Gets the pit pre-warmed and the coals lit.
The temperature of a propane torch with air is about 3600 degrees F and can be used to braze steel.
Doesn't anyone worry about the stress on the steel from going to ambient temp to 3600 degrees? Especially with repeated usage?
I get stalls at 180 all the time.My 1st brisket (12lbs) on the Vault, I put on at midnight. I had the GURU and temp at 225. It got to internal temp of 164 with-in 4 hours. Wrapped and I thought cool...It will be ready in bout 4 to 6 more hours....Nope...got to 180, dropped to 177 and stayed there....long story short, after 12 hours cook time it got to 202....
Thought that was a fluke...well at BBQ Comp....13lb prime brisket, at 225...went on at 1040....woke up at 1245 and internal was 168....thought thermometer was messed up. Got another digital and a manual and all with in 2 to 3 degrees of each other. Wrapped, went back to bed....vault stayed at 226 all night.....got up at 5, internal was at 178, and it stayed there for about 4 hours, and then climbed, took off at 11am at 203 internal. So right at 12 hours cook time. Moist, great ring, tender as heck.
1. I have Never had a brisket get to wrap temp so fast
2. Never had one that stalled at such a high temp...Anyone else gone through this?
I had been having a problem with my Guru overshooting the temp. I found a tip on another thread in BBQ Brethren that makes a lot of sense and seems to have solved my problem. This is a direct quote from that thread:
"It also has a memory feature ("anticipatory" as fwismoker pointed out) so it learns how long it takes to adjust the smoker to drops or spikes in temperatures. If you start the Guru long before the cooker comes to temperature, it will assume this is the required time for adjustment. I find it best once the smoker comes to temperature, unplug the unit for 30 seconds and then restart it. It will start with a fresh memory at that point."
Quick question for you guys, how hot does the outside of the smoker get when it's running? Is it safe to touch/bump into? I'm really going back and forth between one of these and a LSG vertical offset. It's partly a question of stick burning vs. charcoal burning, but there's also the consideration that when I fire up the smoker, there tends to be a party, or at least a family or two coming over. I don't want a kid or a dog getting burned if I can help it.