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Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Charbroil Infrared & SRG style Cookers => Grills & Smokers => Big Easy (BEESR) and SRG Type cookers => Topic started by: Stefanyjoy on January 06, 2018, 05:37:21 PM
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Greetings from North Carolina!
I’ve been lurking around these parts for a couple months, when I stashed away a Big Easy SRG for my husbands Christmas present. He was very excited to receive it!
We did have a problem with our maiden voyage however. We bought a 9” springform pan to use for tommy ring. We spread out hickory wood chips at the bottom starting at 5 o clock position like he suggested. Our smoker box on the side works great - well, as expected. It smokes pretty well for a short time then dies out. My problem is, none of the wood chips on the bottom are catching. We started the grill on high until we got rolling smoke (from the smoke box) but then it dies out without the chips around the bottom catching.
It has been cold as all get out on the east coast and I’m wondering if the 20 degree temp outside was to blame, or is it something else? We have made no mods to the grill yet. My husband also complained the smoke from the smoke box does not get down to the bottom of the grill and bypassed his pork butt entirely.
Can anyone explain what we are doing wrong? Any tips?
Thank you!
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No worries. The "King of Infrared" Tommy should be on shortly to help you with any SRG problems.
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Welcome from SE Georgia!
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Hi from Ct
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Welcome from Minnesota
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Welcome from Pensacola FL
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Welcome from Pensacola FL
My brother went to his flight school there in Pensacola in training for air traffic control in the Marine Corp. He still talks about a restaurant name McGuire’s and their hickory smoked prime rib. He says of all the places he has lived (a lot, lives in San Diego now), this has been his “death row last meal” dish! It actually inspires me to maybe cold smoke (with a tube smoker) a prime rib in hickory before I make one next time. :)
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Welcome from Wisconsin :)
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Hi and welcome to the forum!
The Chips your having issues with are they touching the chamber wall? You said you started them at the 5 O'clock point which is the best place to start them.
Now I use pellets not chips so please keep that in mind. I also found with Unmodified SRG's you need to crack the lid about 1 in by using a stone or something else. This helps with air five low and this should fix your issue.
Give it a try Also, the side smoker box that comes with the SRG have a tendency to smolder out after 15 to 30 min's because of air flow through them. If you like I have pictures of how to fix this issue
TMB