![]() I brought it home, put it together, cleaned it, and set up an easy chicken smoke with leg quarters and bone-in breast to see how this MF would perform without trashing any expensive cuts.įilled it with a half chimney full of hot Royal Oak lump and a handful of apple chips and it quickly went to 200 and parked there for more than an hour, slowly dropping until I got another chimney ready. Who the hell handles these, Three Stooges Logistics Co.? LOL A third looked as though a granite slab had fallen on it. There were, however, two other boxes on the shelf with fork blade holes going right through the box. ![]() I picked up a third version of this same smoker from Lowe's yesterday and it was perfect right out of the box. I'm not bashing the model, I still want to get one because I like the price point and the removable base design that avoids having to mod a Brinkmann, so will keep trying.Īm I going to let two badly fabbed units and no response to my last post slow me down? Naw. I told the wife that this was a sign from the universe that I should probably look at a WSM but to my great surprise she didn't laugh. Long story short, you might want to crack the box and examine this unit in the store before you bring it home! I'll have to wait a bit now until I can start using a real smoker (I've been doing this with indirect heat on a gas grill for years). Plus these seem to have enough sealing/alignment issues as they are, without being bludgeoned into submission. I don't care that not it's not pretty I tried to tell myself. We looked it over and it seemed OK, but I somehow stupidly missed one corner and this time it was the base that had an angry dent in it, this time with all the paint scraped off. I took it back to Lowe's and had them open the other box on the shelf - the one I had passed over due it featuring a huge dent. Apparently there's a guy with a big hammer near the end of the production line, because the devastation wasn't enough to prevent this one from getting painted, packed, and shipped. the lip of the main cylinder body had been crushed massively during fab. The first unit I brought home had just a wee manufacturing flaw. Of Course I won't really know until I've really put this smoker through it's paces I'd like to get a WSM but $300 when $60 gave me perfect temperature is hard to justify. I'm thinking I can get closer to 4 hours in the 225-275 range, we'll see. Next Time I'm going to try it with a full chiminey's worth of pre-lit charcoal. I'm thinking that after theres a layer of ash in the bottom of the charcoal pan, it seems to self-dampen the air flow to just the right amount. ![]() I had an initial spike into the low 300's but after that and through 3 more charcoal refills the smoker stayed rock solid at 250. ![]() second time I just filled the charcoal pan with a half a weber chiminey woth of already lit coal. first I tried Minion Method with Kingsford original, but it burned over 350 for a couple hours problem it there's no vent on top and the vents on the bottom cannot be dampened. It worked fantastic but I had to experiment a little to get it to stay around 250. I bought the same smoker this past weekend from Lowes as well. ![]()
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