Offset Smoker Firebox Door

Your fire box sounds like it would be big enough for the size cooking chamber that you will have.

Offset smoker firebox door.

This might be a surprise but the best way to fire up your offset smoker is with charcoal once you have enough heat in the coals then you add the wood. But a rule of thumb that goes for a lot of things is bigger is. Made a charcoal basket from a fry basket i found in the bargain bin at the hardware store for 5. Regular flow offset smokers draw the heat and smoke from the firebox over the meat once on its way out of the chimney.

Hi guys sounds like you are building a reverse flow smoker with an offset firebox. Used dap high heat mortar to seal between the firebox smoker and to seal cracks. This offset smoker belongs to the classic horizontal group with a firebox on the left side and a 2 wheel system on the bottom for more portability. Get free shipping on qualified offset fire box barrel grills or buy online pick up in store today in the outdoors department.

That s a reverse flow smoker. Seal doors fix leaks. When buying an offset smoker you ll want it to be constructed of a minimum of inch thick steel with well made vents and food chamber doors. Smoker gasket kit smoker door seal nomex aramid strip gasket pan material felt gasket big green egg gasket kamado seal.

You might be able to mitigate the problem by making a gasket. Assuming you don t have any fancy gas ignition systems on your offset smoker the best way to light your coals is with a chimney starter. It s a fantastic design for making great bbq. Unfortunately that isn t going to come cheap.

Are reverse flow smokers better. It is a feltlike material and has an adhesive on the back. One option suggested by reader davidhag1 is to buy a replacement gasket designed for a big green egg. Lavalock fireblack total control bbq gasket seal adhesive leak stop food safe bbq gasket.

Once your coals are lit dump them out of the chimney smoker into the fire box. Cleaned it up added new wheels added a char griller fire box to one end added a smoke deflector using some bricks sheet metal i had laying around.