Hello all....hope everyone is staying safe. I'm breaking in my first stick burner. When I get the initial fire going, it's easy to wait until the smoke gets clean/thin to put the meat on. My question is, when adding a splint hours into the cook, it still has to go through the initial burning stages before it puts out clean smoke. During that time, that grey dirty smoke is hitting the meat. Any tips/tricks for this?
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I always tried to heat up at least the very next log prior to adding it to the fire. My firebox was big enough to lay it just out of reach of the flames. Then it would burn instantly upon being added to the fire. This makes managing the temperature a little easier as well.
There used to be this one guy who was really passionate about pre-burning his wood.Last edited by Steve R.; March 25, 2020, 01:12 PM.
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Jus keep feedin it splits, it'll be otay.
What kinda cooker are ya runnin? Whatcha cookin up?
We'uns'd sure love to see some pics!!!! </hint>
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They look fine to me..As Steve R said. Toss the next split into the corner of the firebox to ppreheat before adding to the fire. Have your exhaust wide oen and try to maintain temp by the amount of wood you add. (more air passing equals cleaner smoke).
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I took a three day BBQ class with Myron Mixon in GA and took a picture of the wood he used as I was interested in what he considered the best size. As you can see he splits them pretty small. Maybe 1" to 1.5" on a side. I'm new to stick burning, too, and so far I've used the wood as it comes from the tree guy but plan to try some smaller wood like shown here.
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I've got an M1 from M Grills. I agree on size seeming small. My plan is to split the sticks I get in half which would be somewhat larger than pictured and see about that. In my limited experience, if you are smoking hot (say 350 ish) the large size works but if you want a smaller fire to smoke cooler (~225 ish) they don't work as well. I am thinking the smaller sticks might be better for that. I'll try ~2 to 3" inch split sticks this weekend.
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