I have a homemade smoker, the box is 24”x24” x48”T (16gage black iron steel)and I’m having some concerns with how it is working. For some reason the flame will just blow out some times, making me concerned that if it blows out and the gas is still on I may have one big fire cracker on my hands…… It seems like the flame is burning too far off the burner at times, making me feel like I’m trying to push too much gas through the burner……but when I turn it down (like in the picture) it will do the same thing
…….When I light the burner it has a nice pretty blue flame on it, so I felt that it was getting plenty of oxygen, but maybe the burner is just not big enough for what I want to do…. I’m considering changing out the burner with a larger one……. In the past I have mostly hot smoking , but I have been wanting to try my hand at cold smoking (trying my hand at bacon and cheese a little more). I would still like to smoke some ribs and chicken at times…so I guess what I’m saying it I want something that is more general purpose……… I’ve been looking at installing a burner like Pop’s has in his smoker
(from Northern tools….) to try to over come this issue...before I spend a lot of money on this I thought I would ask and see if anyone else has a problem like this ? and if so how they fixed it ????? If someone has this burner..... What the lowest temperature that you have been able to achieve? What the highest temperature that someone has been able to achieve (within reason)? Here are a couple pictures of how I have it set up right now ....Maybe someone can see something that I'm doing wrong....(sorry about that fat guy in the picture, he was just too excited about his first smoke run at the time ......ROFLOL)