sirloinoftexas
Newbie
Thanks for this thread! Just wanting to let you know it still the best example of smoker mods out there.
I bought it on sale at Lowe's for less than $300. ($279 I think) I was just at Lowe's getting some chunks and they have another one that is similar (Oklahoma Joe maybe) for $479. Mine has ceramic grills and has six separate grill plates. The one at Lowe's now has two pieces on the left side and 1 piece n the fire pit side. They grills don't look like they are as well coated as mine.Looks like a horizon pit. What did pay for it? Your mods...to say the least.. Innovative
As long as it works
Ok, 1 hour into this and all is well. I am pretty excited to be able to control the temp like this. The bricks are doing great. Holding around 250 deg and just adding a few pcs of pecan chunk and then a few lumps of charcoal. I think I have the air flow right where it should be now. I have always had problems with this thing running away with me.
I bought it on sale at Lowe's for less than $300. ($279 I think) I was just at Lowe's getting some chunks and they have another one that is similar (Oklahoma Joe maybe) for $479. Mine has ceramic grills and has six separate grill plates. The one at Lowe's now has two pieces on the left side and 1 piece n the fire pit side. They grills don't look like they are as well coated as mine.
We will know about 7 PM if the mods are going to work like they did on a small sausage for an hour and a half yesterday. I am doing 2 racks of ribs and a chicken starting in about 30 mins. I got a big bag of lump charcoal too.
Steve
Had to put this off for a day. Very windy here today anyway.
Ok, here's the setup I plan to try tomorrow. I added the 90 deg elbow at the stack and have my new cheap charcoal basket ready to go. I took the foil wads out of the bricks to allow a little more heat in the smoke chamber. Going to do a Butt and a fattie tomorrow.