Center Firebox Build

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If you look at my post on #26 I have pictures of baffle I used. I built something like an air duct to it . That is what keep the heat flowing and prevents the hot spot. Then another layer of steel for grease catching.
 
  • Hephaestus, Dave has a point, its the old saying."if you cant say something nice, don't say anything at all".
So...either I don't say anything for risk of offending you,...or offer you my best advise, and that is to re-think your design. There may be some builds out there of this style, and because the builders put so much effort into the build they will triumph their build as the "holy grail" of smokers, this design is flawed from the beginning, instead of trying to redesign the wheel, go with a design that is tried and true and one that have have hundreds instead of a handful of previous builds to pull information from.

And I paused for a minute before submitting this post, but then I thought, these words may be just what this thread needs to start getting you some feedback...everyone loves a good debate right?
I know this is an old comment but if nothing newwas never tried we all would still be smoking meats in the old smoke houses. i am sure when someone was designing the brick smoker where the fire was built outside the pit on the ground or in a pit they was told it wasnt going to work so why build it when the smoke houses work. Then came the offset smokers made out of pipe to keep oilfield employees busy when the oil boom slowed down. That would have never happened if they was told not to try it cause the brick pit and smoke houses worked so well , why change something that works.And so on and so on through the vertical smoker , the cabinet smoker , the reverse flow smoker , pellet smoker , gravity feed smoker , the UDS. A center firebox if built right and used right can be almost if not as efficent as the UDS. it is just people see the center firebox smoker and think of it as a stick burner. They have to use either lump and chunks or they have to use coals from a fire and small chumks of wood for the smoke. Burning sticks in them make them burn way to hot cause all that heat people are losing out the top of the firebox in an offset is now going into the CC. It is just a bad idea to build a center firebox smoker cause most people dont understand how to use them.
 
This thread is so old many of the participants are no long active...JJ
 
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