New Pellet Grill owner
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nepas
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contracted cooker
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not sure .where were your drippings going dureing thesmoke and what temp did you go up to
contracted cooker
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is it a traeger
Smokenidaho
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What kind of Smoker do you have?
Colleen,
Do you know if you have a series 2 or 3 unit? (Does it have a rubber paddle wheel at the bottom of the hopper, or a short steel auger?)
Could be a couple of things...
1. Meats that have alot of fat (esp. chicken) -- if you run them on smoke, and the grease doesn't burn off or run off the deflector plate; when you turn it up above the flashpoint of that grease, it can catch fire. Once it does catch, you are force feeding air, and creating a grease powered blast furnace. So Unplug, let die, open, clean... and you are usually good to go. It sounds like this was the issue. On the CS units if you have the rheostat (dial) controller... about 1/4" below medium is usually around 230, Medium is 290, 1/2 way between Med and Hi is 350-375, Hi is 475-500, "Preheat" if you leave it there will go up to 600. If you are running on Hi or Pre-heat, you'd better have a clean grill, or a grease fire will ensue
2. If you have a series 2 unit, and your pellets were very small, or broken down, On low, it can shuffle all the small ones in a 1/4 turn at a time, and jam them around the edge of the wheel. when it turns, they all fall through when the next large ones hit... so you get a little bit of a "flash" when you crank it up and let all the smaller wedged in pellets break loose with it running in med/hi... causeing yoru temp to spike, which could have ignited the grease also.
Glad you chicken turned out fine!! You'll love the cooker. And for the record, I dont know why Kim would think I know tricks about burning them up
Do you know if you have a series 2 or 3 unit? (Does it have a rubber paddle wheel at the bottom of the hopper, or a short steel auger?)
Could be a couple of things...
1. Meats that have alot of fat (esp. chicken) -- if you run them on smoke, and the grease doesn't burn off or run off the deflector plate; when you turn it up above the flashpoint of that grease, it can catch fire. Once it does catch, you are force feeding air, and creating a grease powered blast furnace. So Unplug, let die, open, clean... and you are usually good to go. It sounds like this was the issue. On the CS units if you have the rheostat (dial) controller... about 1/4" below medium is usually around 230, Medium is 290, 1/2 way between Med and Hi is 350-375, Hi is 475-500, "Preheat" if you leave it there will go up to 600. If you are running on Hi or Pre-heat, you'd better have a clean grill, or a grease fire will ensue
2. If you have a series 2 unit, and your pellets were very small, or broken down, On low, it can shuffle all the small ones in a 1/4 turn at a time, and jam them around the edge of the wheel. when it turns, they all fall through when the next large ones hit... so you get a little bit of a "flash" when you crank it up and let all the smaller wedged in pellets break loose with it running in med/hi... causeing yoru temp to spike, which could have ignited the grease also.
Glad you chicken turned out fine!! You'll love the cooker. And for the record, I dont know why Kim would think I know tricks about burning them up
KimG SOW
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And for the record, I dont know why Kim would think I know tricks about burning them up
Yeah.....Don't know where I got that idea. Hmmm... should I start counting the fires...