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I had an odd occurance today on my Weber Smokey Mountain.
Now let me preface this post with the fact that I have used my WSM maybe 6 times, 8 at most, in 5 months.
This happened on a small scale before, but this time it was big.
At the top of the smoke chamber, there were large flakes of brown flaking off and exposing the original black enamel interior.
What appears to be happening is, is that smoke from the wood is leaving a thin layer of brown soot. I got some of the liquid on my fingers today, and it smelled like resin, or liquid smoke actually.
Well at the top, this dried out, and was flaking off and blowing on the meat.
Under the dome this was happening too. Tiny little specks of this brown, dried, smoke resin, was releasing from the dome.
The brisket had bacon covered in specks. I ripped off the bacon at 165 when I wrapped it. The chicken had it on its skin, but we don't eat the skin on smoked boobs.
Do I need to wash the inside of the WSM each time I use it? That seems farked up. Do I need to clean it, then brush with peanut oil?
Anyone else have this happen?
Now let me preface this post with the fact that I have used my WSM maybe 6 times, 8 at most, in 5 months.
This happened on a small scale before, but this time it was big.
At the top of the smoke chamber, there were large flakes of brown flaking off and exposing the original black enamel interior.
What appears to be happening is, is that smoke from the wood is leaving a thin layer of brown soot. I got some of the liquid on my fingers today, and it smelled like resin, or liquid smoke actually.
Well at the top, this dried out, and was flaking off and blowing on the meat.
Under the dome this was happening too. Tiny little specks of this brown, dried, smoke resin, was releasing from the dome.
The brisket had bacon covered in specks. I ripped off the bacon at 165 when I wrapped it. The chicken had it on its skin, but we don't eat the skin on smoked boobs.
Do I need to wash the inside of the WSM each time I use it? That seems farked up. Do I need to clean it, then brush with peanut oil?
Anyone else have this happen?