rikun
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Hi,
Been struggling with my homemade stick burner, especially with fire management. It's going ok now, but I still have a few problems.
One is soot, no matter how clean fire I run, I always get a little bit of darkish brown soot on my meat. And I've tried with lots of different woods.
With chicken it's most noticeable and I can actually wipe it off from the skin with paper. However it doesn't taste bad, so I guess it's not creosote? It does taste "smoky", though.
With big meats like brisket, it really isn't that noticeable except when they weep fat.
I searched for threads with same problem, this picture shows exactly how my grates look after each cook: http://s1039.photobucket.com/user/Jg891/media/Mobile Uploads/image_zpsgcwu4csm.jpeg.html
Could the soot become from grease vaporizing / burning on the RF plate? I noticed last cook there was lot of grease on top of the FB sizzling like crazy.
I guess I'll need to do a cook with 100% charcoal to verify if it's my fire or not...
Been struggling with my homemade stick burner, especially with fire management. It's going ok now, but I still have a few problems.
One is soot, no matter how clean fire I run, I always get a little bit of darkish brown soot on my meat. And I've tried with lots of different woods.
With chicken it's most noticeable and I can actually wipe it off from the skin with paper. However it doesn't taste bad, so I guess it's not creosote? It does taste "smoky", though.
With big meats like brisket, it really isn't that noticeable except when they weep fat.
I searched for threads with same problem, this picture shows exactly how my grates look after each cook: http://s1039.photobucket.com/user/Jg891/media/Mobile Uploads/image_zpsgcwu4csm.jpeg.html
Could the soot become from grease vaporizing / burning on the RF plate? I noticed last cook there was lot of grease on top of the FB sizzling like crazy.
I guess I'll need to do a cook with 100% charcoal to verify if it's my fire or not...