Cleaning a UDS????

[shawnmcchesney12]

A 16 inch pizza pan is what I use in mine and it serves a double purpose as it works as a heat deflector and helps with the extra drippings that are not caught by my drip pan. I think it works wonderfully.

 

[Maskirovka]

I've had my UDS for a little over a month now. Done 3 racks of ribs, a pork shoulder, a chuck roast, and 3 chickens so far. Pretty good puddle forming. Tonight I looked in before setting up for a brisket. Decided the puddle had to go. Method: Lift, tip, dump on ground. Seemed to work. :mrgreen:

 

[chambersuac]

I have an ash catcher attached to the charcoal basket on both of my UDSs. now. On my old UDS, which didn't have anything to catch ashes/grease, i would simply take the basket and racks out and dump everything out.

I'm afraid that washing/rinsing will effect the seasoning of the smoker. Maybe not.

 

[Tonybel]

I dump some ash onto the fat and scoop it out with a dust pan with a long handle on it.

When I had my uds that's what I did.