The "what-cha-ma-call-it" on a stick burner

[scottranda]

What do you call the "elbow" of the exhaust pipe that leads into the cooking chamber? Exhaust manifold? Is there a better term?

It looks like more than an "elbow". You take the steel out in a rectangular shape which then collects the smoke and draws it up the exhaust stack. Do you call it a "smoke collector triangulation"?

What-you-ma-call-it?

And what do you pitmasters think? Necessary? Nice to have?

(Yes, that is Aaron Franklin in the picture from his book)

[RonB]

Just put a welding blanket over it and don't worry 'bout it.

[NapMaster]

Look for a post called My Rebuild by crude4u I think he called it a smoke collector. I ran across it last night.

[Steve B]

You’re thinking too much into this Scott. 😁
If anything it would be called an exhaust flue.
As RonB said don’t worry bout it.

[Troutman]

Collector box.

[bardsleyque]

In the automotive world it would be a manifold.

[JGo37]

The other genres collecting effluent to spew out and maintain peak center-line operating temperatures are rather mature in their respective development life-cycles, as is their nomenclature. It's a recent development in smoking to think about the smoking chamber volume of a particular cooker in relation to the fuel source, the fuel basket size, the amount of heated gases and particulate that must be efficiently expelled for a given temperature, the structure of the convergent / divergent collector, and the volume of the proper chimney as driven by gaseous pressure, therefore needing a precise diameter and length, and the ability to fine tune the characteristics and variables in play due to such factors as weather and humidity.

This is not a watch-you-ma-call-it. This is science. It's the size of the outlet in the body of the cooker that drives the structure of the thing-a-ma-jiggy that uses a joey to connect it to the chimney base via a doo-hickey.

Let's get serious folks, this is BBQ.

[Thunder77]

It's the thingamabob that connects the do-jobber to the whatsit.

[Ahumadora]

I call it a manifold and is used to help maintain mose consistent temps in the pit and move the flow of heat lower down , reducing hot spots.

[Huskee]

Expansion chamber, lol.

[Henrik]

Flux capacitor :-)

[Steve B]

+1. Hahahahaha

[Nate]

Dang it! You beat me to it!

[Troutman]

I've changed my mind, I think it's called a polytetrahedron. I say that because a connected set of regular tetrahedra is the 3-dimensional analogue of a polyiamond. Polytetrahedra and polyiamonds are related as polycubes are to polyominoes. The only real issue that bothers me is what kind Mr. Franklin prefers because there exists two topologically distinct polytetrahedra, each made up of four intersecting triangles.

(I have no earthly idea what I just said, I think a being took over my brain. Can someone please translate?)

[JGo37]

Troutman I love polyominoes



oops - OREos - never mind.

[Johnny Big Time]

Just got back from the grocery store and couldn't find her anywhere...damn!!

[Troutman]

DANG!!! I'll take those Oreos any day !!!