Do all pellet smokers burn the bottom of food?

[FlipprDolphin]

Well, I have a camp chef sg24 and it burned the bottom of my brisket really badly.

Another person had the same thing happen with his camp chef.

Is the burning of the bottom something that happens with all pellet smokers or just something with camp chef and their heat deflector.

I know I can always smoke it on the top shelf, but I would like the bottom to be used too.

[Fire Art]

My pellet pooper has never burned my food. How hot we’re you cooking at

[FlipprDolphin]

A 18 lb packer brisket at 225. I didn't wrap it eithee

[Jerod Broussard]

I only use the very bottom of mine (blaze n grills Grid Iron) when I fill mine to the gills, and even then I start things off slow and get it to where the lowest temperature throughout the grill is at least 225. That means running the actual grill setting at ~200 most times. Lotta radiant heat coming off that drip pan. Have not burnt anything but good thing I checked some flats early cause them dudes were cooking along.

[FlipprDolphin]

So you use the top most of the time?

[Jerod Broussard]

FlipprDolphin I have three higher racks and I use the second to highest for things that will fit one rack since it is inline with the chimney

[jerrybell]

I have a Camp Chef. I've only overcooked, not burned, the bottom when I was running late on the cook and turned up the heat to 300 (might have been 350). Have you checked your grate-level temperature to see how that compares to the cooker temperature readout?

[FlipprDolphin]

Yup, it's the same

[Bumby]

Hasn't happened to me yet, knock on wood!

[treesmacker]

No problem with my Rec Tec burning the bottom.

[Troutman]

None here as well. Did you have your sear plate removed exposing the burn pot by chance?

[Greasy]

That's what I was thinking as well

[FlipprDolphin]

Nope

[CaptainMike]

My old Traeger doesn't.

[MBMorgan]

No such problems on my Grilla ...

[obiQsmoker]

I’ve not had that issue on my Traeger. It has a heat deflector over the fire pot, and the drip tray over that.

[Donw]

I always try to be positive but I got to say, it might be worth traveling the 50 miles to return your smoker. With the grease leak problem and now it burning a brisket, something is just not right with it. I want you to be enjoying BBQ’ing and not start dreading each cook.

[FlipprDolphin]

They sent me a new one still in the box. Contemplating returning it and getting.a green mountain. My stupid brisket never got over 194 either and last night my short ribs never got past 198 unless I raised the temp to over 275. I had 3 different probes and they all had the same readings. The temp inside was 225 for the whole cook too and the short ribs all stopped at 198 (6 separated ones)

[Texas Larry]

Just did a brisket yesterday on my Yoder ys640. Upper rack, came out gorgeous. Major smoke ring. No burning. I use the upper rack for all long slow cooks.

[Troutman]

Nice looking brisket

[bten]

+1

[Sweaty Paul]

+2

[jgreen]

No problem with my original Grilla. It has a double baffle plate on the heat deflector and does not seem hotter in the middle.

[MBMorgan]

Same here ... the OG behaves like a true "convection smoker" ... even heat everywhere.

[CandySueQ]

No Flip Burgers!

[Potkettleblack]

It’s a little hotter around the edges of the deflector plate, in the convection current.

[cgrover60]

A coworker recently bought a Campchef SG24 and had exactly the same problem - burned bottom of the brisket cooking at 225. Seems like this might not be a unique problem.

[jumbo7676]

Only burn issues I've had on my GMG Daniel Boone have been when I had food too close to the edge of the grate where all of the heat is coming up around the edges of the grease tray below.