dust it with gold leaf

Willy Wonka said:

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dust it with gold leaf

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aggie2812-2 said:

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Anyone else smoke BBQ on a traditional offset smoker? I've cook on this Mill Scale about 7 times now and I'm loving. Never tried BBQing before this and my wife seems to think I'm nuts spending my Sunday's outside doing this.

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Yes, exclusively. It's more work than the Easy Bake Ovens....I mean pellet "smokers", but it is worth it.

I suppose it works like the primary heat deflector in a pellet grill. Interesting design! Would love to see some temp charts on a long cook.

Rattler12 said:

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When I first built this it I built it as an offset. I decided that there was no use losing all that heat out of the top of the firebox and moved it under the pit and used the piece out of the barrel as a "control" by turning it upside down and inserting it inside the pit. Uses a whole helluva lot less wood than the original design and works well

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Very interesting build have seen many variations of fire box constructions and placements but not like this. Sure would like to see a internal pic of cooking grate in correlation to upside down deflector plate. Someone was thinking!!

Crow Valley said:

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Rattler12 said:

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When I first built this it I built it as an offset. I decided that there was no use losing all that heat out of the top of the firebox and moved it under the pit and used the piece out of the barrel as a "control" by turning it upside down and inserting it inside the pit. Uses a whole helluva lot less wood than the original design and works well

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Very interesting build have seen many variations of fire box constructions and placements but not like this. Sure would like to see a internal pic of cooking grate in correlation to upside down deflector plate. Someone was thinking!!

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The deflector plate is not stationary and can be moved from one end to the other and covers about a third of the area at a time wherever placed. There is a stationary grate about a foot or so wide at each end and a removable grate a little bit narrower that the door opening in the middle.

So basically, when deflector is moved to smokestack end there is no smoking of meat directly over exposed firebox?

Crow Valley said:

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So basically, when deflector is moved to smokestack end there is no smoking of meat directly over exposed firebox?

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No. Searing steaks directly over high heat from the hot box. The flat on the top of the fire box end is for a pot of baste. The slide controls on each side of the firebox control air as does a circle vent on the fire box door. I can also cook with coals/ charcoal with them directly under the center grate and just pull the deflector/baffle right over the coals. Great for cooking chickens as the drippings fall onto the hot baffle and sizzle and not onto the coals for a flareup.

Understand. Very versatile smoker!

This sounds really cool!

Stick burned two racks of spares and two dozen wings on Sunday. Forgot to get a pic but the ribs were pretty perfect. Great smoke ring and nice clean pull off the bone. Apple and post oak, 4-2-.5 was how it ended up, just by look and feel and toothpick test.

Been a while since I smoked and now I've got the itch back to smoke everything all the time.

I need to figure out a way to better damper the heat on the firebox end. It has a built in deflector and I wrap the first third of the grates in foil, but that first exposed row of wings definitely got cooked faster.

Looks great.

You've set the bar for yourself pretty high

You can almost see the blistering 75 degree heat wave temperature in those pictures.

wow

"Life is good" seems to be quite the understatement... awesome place!