ArtBQ
Is lookin for wood to cook with.
So this time last year I ordered a Workhorse Pit 1957, their smallest model. It arrived in May. It was my first offset smoker, coming from owning several Weber Smokey Mountains. There was a major learning curve with a live fire and I feel like I have learned quite a bit and I do feel like the barbecue I am making these days is some of the best I have ever had.
One question I have for the community is about temperature fluctuations. I have read Franklin's book easily 4 times and took his Masterclass. I understand a 1000 gallon pit is way different than this little guy. Taking advice from these forums, I scaled my fire appropriately. I cut my logs in half and even split those down to smaller pieces. I find that's the only way to keep temperatures low enough.
I track my temps with a Thermorworks Smoke attached to a Gateway to get accurate graphs from my cooks. A question I have, is it normal to have such a fluctuation in temps from when you put a log on and then when its just about spent and you put a long on again? Franklin and others I have seen on Youtube talk about maintaining a temp of like 275 plus or minus 5 degrees.
I have not idea how to get my fire to hold in such a tight threshold. Am I missing something? I have attached a graph from my last smoke, you see major dips in temps when I opened the lid to spritz, but you can see each time I add wood - a spike to about 290 and then let it burn until it gets below 230 because I know another log will spike to 290 again.
One question I have for the community is about temperature fluctuations. I have read Franklin's book easily 4 times and took his Masterclass. I understand a 1000 gallon pit is way different than this little guy. Taking advice from these forums, I scaled my fire appropriately. I cut my logs in half and even split those down to smaller pieces. I find that's the only way to keep temperatures low enough.
I track my temps with a Thermorworks Smoke attached to a Gateway to get accurate graphs from my cooks. A question I have, is it normal to have such a fluctuation in temps from when you put a log on and then when its just about spent and you put a long on again? Franklin and others I have seen on Youtube talk about maintaining a temp of like 275 plus or minus 5 degrees.
I have not idea how to get my fire to hold in such a tight threshold. Am I missing something? I have attached a graph from my last smoke, you see major dips in temps when I opened the lid to spritz, but you can see each time I add wood - a spike to about 290 and then let it burn until it gets below 230 because I know another log will spike to 290 again.