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Any successfull Q`s in the rain?

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Was a perfect day today. Maybe a bit breezy. But able to season the smoker for a good 5 hours.

Wanted to cook tomorrow early (6-7am, 40-45º at start) with possible light drizzle toward the end of my cook time. Anyone with suggestions whether to light up or not?

Greedy
 
If I may, I suggest to Light Up!!

Drizzle towards the end means your stuff is probably wrapped, done using flavor wood and only concerend about heat. Drizzle is nothing. Heavy downpour, maybe shelter of some sort is in order, but just fashion some sort of chimney cover that will allow ventilation, use the side door for adding fuel, and leave the smoke chamber closed

(this process is much easier with a couple digital readout probes. Pyrex I have seem to not mind getting wet, although I magnet them to the legs under the smoke chamber and stay pretty dry.

Good Cooking to you Greedy

(I forget where your from. Add a city or state to your "Doublewide" location)
 
By all means LIGHT UP!!! ...

Damn, i open up a patio umbrella and pull it up next to the firebox so it protects the wood on top and the guy standing in front of the box. (me). Were more devout that the postman,

rain, snow, hail, sleet....
nothin stop a Brethren from smokin meat!!
 
If I think it may rain, I use my ECB, and I put it on the porch that has a limestone deck. Then the rain is not at pain. 8)
 
Hey Heath... comment on this one.

Try living in the NW. It rains for most of the year in Portland, and seattle is worse.

Light up the fire, and add some extra wood. And buy a rain coat.
 
Rain, ain't no stinkin rain here!

Seriously though, if your wood/charcoal/fuel is dry and you have your electronics protected then no worries mate. I will put a large stainless steel bowl upside down over the exhaust. Propped up on something, it works great for keeping rain out. I only worry about washing the rub off the meat in the top of the 'Dera. After all, we put a pan in the chamber to "add moisture", how much more can we add if the humidity is 100%?

Only thing that pisses me off when it lightly sprinkles all day is the rust. Seems that the next day I'll have a lot of surface rust. Probably cause of all the humidity burning off during the cook? Anyways, best thing to do is spray the "dera down with vegie oil while it's cooking (It can ignite, so be carefull). When it's hot the oil will spread out and cover everything really well. At the end of the cook I'll spray it again while it's warm. If I follow this religiously I tend to not have a lot of rust.

Otherwise wear your rubbers.
 
Go for it! If it becomes more than drizzle, you can always finish in the oven. I've done that 2 or 3 times at least half through the cook. Everything had plenty of smoke to it.
 
Rain?

Thats why I have my bandera mounted in the garage with a vent out a window :P
 
Anyone with suggestions whether to light up or not?

Crawling out my weekend haze, I know I'm late with this. I'll light up in all elements. The toughest ones are gusty cold winds and torrential downpours, or a combination of both. Don't let 'em stop ya though.
 
tommykendall said:
Anyone with suggestions whether to light up or not?

Crawling out my weekend haze, I know I'm late with this. I'll light up in all elements. The toughest ones are gusty cold winds and torrential downpours, or a combination of both. Don't let 'em stop ya though.

Well get your farking WSM out of the damn box in the basement and fire it up.

Pit Bitching Mod

:o
 
tommykendall said:
Anyone with suggestions whether to light up or not?

Crawling out my weekend haze, I know I'm late with this. I'll light up in all elements. The toughest ones are gusty cold winds and torrential downpours, or a combination of both. Don't let 'em stop ya though.

Just turn up the gas.
 
No way man. I'll buy another before I pull that one out of the box. Ya never know - someone with a strong aspiration to take up Q'ing may get a little starter gift from me some day.
 
Weigh it down in the wind.

Hand mine blow over while setting up.

Farking vents are bent to POOPIE already.
 
willkat98 said:
Weigh it down in the wind.

Hand mine blow over while setting up.

Farking vents are bent to POOPIE already.

Obviously, If it's windy enough to blow it over then don't light her up.
 
Yeah, I'm not concerned with the rain as much as the wind. That really farks with temps. We're planning/hoping on building the new house in the next year and I'm looking at how to block off the wind from the smoker & grill area.
 
jt said:
Yeah, I'm not concerned with the rain as much as the wind. That really farks with temps. We're planning/hoping on building the new house in the next year and I'm looking at how to block off the wind from the smoker & grill area.

Build a smoke house
 
I just brought home the new Jenn Air grill - I don't think I'm going to get THAT much agreement from my better half! :D
 
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