Smoke (Alton Brown)

[addicted-to-smoke]

@sunsanvil: Hope I didn't come off as too gung-ho.
@1buckie: I couldn't have said it any better than Tim did.

I especially appreciate the "preheat" aspect to help avoid a big "catch" from rapidly going from cool to hot very fast.

[1buckie]

"I especially appreciate the "preheat" aspect to help avoid a big "catch" from rapidly going from cool to hot very fast."


^^^^ That's something I've found very useful.....the heating on the kettle lid I think I either came to by default, or got from MacEggs....he does that too.......
That's a way for anyone doing a shorter cook to get a edge.....not everyone wants to deal with 14 hour cookups.......

the additional info is all just fine, never really too gung-ho......unless you're bashing the heck out of somebody when their way may work just fine for them.......I try to stick to what I've found works & why.....seems the cleanest approach......


Now......Fatcap up.....or Fatcap down?

[sunsanvil]

"I like to approach things like this analytically."
                                ~~~> sunsanvil


Well....OK !!!!

A tone of thanks for taking time out from the kettle for such a wealth of info/links in one post.  Cheers.

Interestingly on Sunday as I was doing the chicken and tossing the occasional chip on the coals, at one point after the initial billow of smoke I was sitting back staring at the vent (mesmerized?) and thought..."hey.....that smoke is blue in color!". 

[1buckie]

"(mesmerized?) and thought..."hey.....that smoke is blue in color!""

AWwwww....get outta town.....Really?












Just Kiddin' !!!!


So.....less worry, more fun.....tasty, tasty....FUN !!!!!

[1buckie]

      (mesmerized?)



     This is another symtom of Weberitis..................BTW................

[sunsanvil]

Yea it was pretty trippy.  Had started to rain so I was sitting alone in a lawn chair under a golf umbrella watching the wisps of smoke, listening to the ting-hiss ting-hiss of raindrops hitting the dome...holding a glass of red, for some reason still wearing a massive weber oven mit. 

[addicted-to-smoke]

Yea it was pretty trippy.  Had started to rain so I was sitting alone in a lawn chair under a golf umbrella watching the wisps of smoke, listening to the ting-hiss ting-hiss of raindrops hitting the dome...holding a glass of red, for some reason still wearing a massive weber oven mit. 

Damn, son, I can see it now ... I think you reached Another Level of Consciousness. Did George Stephens' face appear in the smoke wisps?

[1buckie]

Yea it was pretty trippy.  Had started to rain so I was sitting alone in a lawn chair under a golf umbrella watching the wisps of smoke, listening to the ting-hiss ting-hiss of raindrops hitting the dome...holding a glass of red, for some reason still wearing a massive weber oven mit. 

Whadda ya think, gang?

Might have gone around the bend......should we send in a "Team" or wait it out for awhile?

[1buckie]

Oh, OK......reread this & also saw this:

"Another Level of Consciousness"...............................

It's just the "Altered State of Consciousness of the Smoke Shaman"......nuthin' to worry about, proceed as usual.....

[colin.p]

"Another Level of Consciousness" ?
That was wood you threw on the coals, right?

[1buckie]

A conversation that was on Smoke Ring awhile ago about this soaking thing just cropped back up.....with a somewhat scientific testing of some aspects of the question....


http://www.thesmokering.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60560&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

[1buckie]

Here's another one from Smoke Ring's "Commercial" section....
Giant AN Bewley industrial pit.....down low in the post, by the food pics (great, BTW !!)

he says it likes wet, unseaoned wood......however, this is pretty different than a 22-1/2" kettle.......

http://www.thesmokering.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63658

[Hogsy]

This is a great thread. So many questions I've been meaning to ask have been answered
Thanks all ....... Especially Buckie for taking the time to explain some of the basics that often get overlooked