Smoke Pot for Pit Barrel Cooker?

[bbqoaf]

I thought you could only do that in California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado and DC?

[Jeff_Carley]

Something else you can try to create more smoke flavor is the charcoal and wood circle. I found this multiple times while looking through thread and they all have this idea yet they pepper chunks of wood throughout the circle. This allows the wood to burn in waves giving you burst of smoke throughout the cook. The bellow picture is from a post by jecucolo. Most individuals take the wood and make a clock pattern placing the wood at the 1-12 intervals. Give it a shot before messing with adding a new component to the PBC. Worth a try, and cheaper too.

[Beefchop]

That makes a lot of sense. Again, my main frustration was with how the wood either created temp spikes/hot spots or constricted airflow so that I got less cook time out of a load of charcoal.

[hogdog6]

Tried the smoke pot that is IMHO a game changer for the BGE, in my PBC. Unlike when used in the egg didn't do anything for my rib cook. Ribs were great as they always are in the PBC (never ceases to amaze) but smoke flavor was no better or worse than when I just use a couple apple wood chunks thrown on top of the charcoal. Always fun to try a new experiment but with the PBC I found "it ain't broke so no need to fix it." Haha

[LA Pork Butt]

Did you have a lid on your smoke pot? It won't work without a lid and 4 1/8 " holes drilled in the bottom.

[hogdog6]

Sorry took so long to reply. Yes I do have and use a lid, in the pic just wanted to show the pellets I used.

[fzxdoc]

Thanks for the info, hogdog6 . Your test bore out my suspicions; it's good know that the smoke pot is no better/worse than a couple of wood chunks on the PBC coals.

And thanks for doing all the work!

Kathryn

[Beefchop]

Thanks hogdog6 !!!! You just saved me time and money.

[lschweig]

Thanks hogdog6 for confirming my original thought.

[Livermoron]

Depending on the length of the cook, I'll use about half the chunks I would've used in my old WSM, or I put chips in my cast iron smoke box (like I would on the grill) and drop those on the coals. Seems to work pretty well...

[Spinaker]

Nice test. Even when an idea doesn't pan out to be better than the original. The research involved is usually a good time. Let be honest here, most of this stuff is adults playing with fire under the guise of cooking!