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Q-talk *ON TOPIC ONLY* QUALITY ON TOPIC discussion of Backyard BBQ, grilling, equipment and outdoor cookin' . ** Other cooking techniques are welcomed for when your cookin' in the kitchen. Post your hints, tips, tricks & techniques, success, failures, but stay on topic and watch for that hijacking. |
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06-23-2018, 04:23 PM | #46 | |
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The handle is rock-solid. Not an ounce of flex. I could pound on it with a hammer for a while and it still wouldn't give. So far three annoyances I've encountered. All are small, and none make me regret the purchase, nonetheless: 1) The cool touch handles on the firebox and the griddle do, in fact, get too hot to touch without a towel or something. Six hours in, I've been at around 300 for most of the day, with a couple brief stints at 250. And the handles are pretty toasty. 2) The ball valve for draining the water and grease out of your cook chamber points straight down at the log rack below. Emptying it onto your storage rack is obviously......not good. Even if you don't use it for storage, no one wants to create additional cleanup by having your cooker spray greasy water all over itself. Rus Jones of Smoky Ribs BBQ & Southern Cuisine on YouTube added an elbow fitting to his 24x36 to make it point out the side at a 45 so it would drain properly. This is something I'd like to see Lone Star add right at the factory. It is very inexpensive and makes better sense than the current design. 3) Lastly, I scratched my paint preheating logs on the firebox lid. And I was being incredibly careful. That stuff is very easy to scrape up, even after seasoning, and I wish I'd known that before trying. An easy solution on these new 20" models is to put logs under the firebox on the log rack. Because the firebox is smaller on these 20-inchers, there's actually a spot to put logs directly beneath the firebox unlike the 24" models where the firebox goes all the way down to the frame. I'll mention each of these in future videos as I develop my channel. Thank you for your input and questions!
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06-23-2018, 04:25 PM | #47 |
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Another thing I'll mention in a future vid: once you have your whole smoker up to full temp, right after you add a new log to a good coal bed, you can get that griddle well over 600 degrees for searing smash burgers. So definitively, you can smoke and griddle at the same time with no prob if you plan your timing right.
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06-23-2018, 05:07 PM | #48 |
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The first suggestion I have for any potential YouTuber is: Fix the sound. Invest in a shotgun (if you're always infront of the camera) or lavalier (if you jump around) mic. People on the tubes seem to be far more forgiving of video than they do sound.
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06-23-2018, 05:24 PM | #49 |
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06-23-2018, 06:52 PM | #50 | |
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06-23-2018, 09:24 PM | #51 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
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The paint on the firebox is a known thing. I've seen it a few times. I wish i had remembered to post that in your other threads. Did it go all the way to the metal? I can't understand the hot cool touch handles. I've never heard that one before.
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06-23-2018, 10:53 PM | #52 | |
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06-23-2018, 10:56 PM | #53 | |
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I'm wondering if the hot handles was because I had the firebox door cracked open several times today for airflow. I cannot remember if it happened right after one of those times or not, but it's possible. The outside of that firebox was reading 550 degrees at one point, so it could also just be that it made the handles straight up hot.
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06-23-2018, 10:58 PM | #54 | |
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06-23-2018, 11:26 PM | #55 |
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"2) The ball valve for draining the water and grease out of your cook chamber points straight down at the log rack below. Emptying it onto your storage rack is obviously......not good. Even if you don't use it for storage, no one wants to create additional cleanup by having your cooker spray greasy water all over itself. Rus Jones of Smoky Ribs BBQ & Southern Cuisine on YouTube added an elbow fitting to his 24x36 to make it point out the side at a 45 so it would drain properly. This is something I'd like to see Lone Star add right at the factory. It is very inexpensive and makes better sense than the current design."
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06-24-2018, 07:51 AM | #57 |
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Were you having issues with the logs smoldering with the firebox door closed? Just curious. I own a 24x36 horizontal offset from LSG and have had issues with it. Fixed it by enlarging the air intake.
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06-24-2018, 07:53 AM | #58 |
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06-24-2018, 08:54 AM | #59 |
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I see replacement grease buckets for pellet poopers a lot of places.
You should be able to hang one off the ball valve handle. Or even a small cattle bucket from a farm supply store. TSC or FleetFarm. If you're broke from the lsg purchase...make one from a large soup can and a hanger? |
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06-24-2018, 09:27 AM | #60 | |
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Perhaps you are just opening the intake all the way? My LSG vertical offset drafts like crazy. This is the first I have heard of an intake issue with any of the lSG smokers.
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