I started a thread a few weeks ago when I first bought my Mes30 asking what was the best electric smoker for a PID, and that turned into a smoke discussion and I thought I should start a separate thread for how to get TBS or how do you get a good smelling, proper smoke in your electric smoker. Here is the original thread. https://www.smokingmeatforums.com/threads/best-basic-electric-smoker-for-diy-pid-install.321745/
So, if you look at that thread, you can see I’ve tried about five or six different things. I have yet to see blue, although I am honing in on a good smelling smoke. I went to my friends, sausage making business today and he gave me a bag of shavings that he uses for smoking, it’s a hardwood blend with no specified types of wood on the outside of the bag, he buys them in commercial quantities from a company in Wisconsin, which is crazy as that’s in the centre of North America and we are in British Columbia, and he is probably not as particular as we are about the mix. However, of all the things I have tried they burn the slowest, and smell the best so far, although still not blue I am just getting a whispy trace of smoke now, for almost 2 hours with only half of one smoker tray row filled.
I would love to hear how you achieve that elusive TBS or close to it and what you do or use in your electric smokers.
Cheers
So, if you look at that thread, you can see I’ve tried about five or six different things. I have yet to see blue, although I am honing in on a good smelling smoke. I went to my friends, sausage making business today and he gave me a bag of shavings that he uses for smoking, it’s a hardwood blend with no specified types of wood on the outside of the bag, he buys them in commercial quantities from a company in Wisconsin, which is crazy as that’s in the centre of North America and we are in British Columbia, and he is probably not as particular as we are about the mix. However, of all the things I have tried they burn the slowest, and smell the best so far, although still not blue I am just getting a whispy trace of smoke now, for almost 2 hours with only half of one smoker tray row filled.
I would love to hear how you achieve that elusive TBS or close to it and what you do or use in your electric smokers.
Cheers