Kaptain Kadian
is Blowin Smoke!
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2014
- Location
- Broken Arrow/ ok
Well guys, I had a rough memorial day cook. It started fairly ok, I had a little trouble with my lonestargrillz vertical cabinet taking a little long to get to temperature, but I finally got it and got my briskets and some wings on around 45 minutes late. Next went to prep some ribs. I was going to do 5 racks of spares. I opened the 1st 3 and they were rotten. I debated on if it was just a smell that would go away or rotten. Should have trusted my gut and thrown them away from the beginning. I ended up taking them back and getting my money back. I then only had 2 racks of ribs. The rest of the smoke went fairly well except the butcher paper I bought sucked and just shredded. I ditched it and went to plan b. The ribs turned out well, but I wasn't real happy with my briskets. I even was cooking 2 for some coworkers. Anyway, this is when the fit hits the shan. I was slicing up the last brisket and look out the window at my 3 month old lonestargrillz vertical cabinet and their is a huge grease fire with flames bellowing out of it. The flames burned up the pop up tent I was using to keep the freaking rain off of it, since it has been raining here for over a month straight and singed all the hair off my arms as I shut the door to it. Took hours to get the fire out enough to pull the charcoal basket out to let it start cooling down. The temperature gauge was over the 500 degrees on it and it bubbled up the paint right around the gasket on the top right corner. I am hoping this is all that is wrong with it. I don't think the insulation or anything else got messed up. Man, that was a sickening feeling watching your new smoker on fire. Lesson learned, make sure you shut the door.