Horizontal Smoker Modification
Q: Do you have an answer on how to make a baffle for my horizontal smoker so that it heats evenly throughout my smoker instead of heating real hot on one side and barely on the other. thanks alot and I will look forward to your response.
A: You have a very good question and while there is no way to completely explain with mere words how to modify your horizontal smoker with a baffle I will try to give you the basic idea and with a little creativity you may be able to make something that will work.
The problem with horizontals is that the area just inside the smoke chamber where the radiant heat enters from the firebox is blazing hot and will burn meat if placed there while the other end is usually too cool so you either have to keep the meat away from the firebox end and continually turn it and flip it to get it done evenly or you have to modify it with a baffle of some sort to more evenly distribute the heat.
I am not a welder and I did not modify mine myself but rather had it done for me however you must place a piece of flat metal just under the grate extending the full length of the smoke chamber. the baffle should have width-wise slots cut in it every couple of inches or so that are very narrow at the firebox end and continually larger/wider as you get further away from the firebox.
This allows less heat to enter at the hot end and more heat to enter at the cooler end and thereby evens out the temp a little bit.
You can also set a pan of water at the entrance of the firebox to the smoke chamber to act as a barrier to the radiant heat and to create some steam which will naturally try to regulate the temperature in the smoker.
In creating the baffle, if you do not have a welding machine you can have something fabricated and then use some long bolts anchored thru the smoke chamber walls to set the baffle onto.
Pictures would do this operation a lot more justice but at present I do not have any.
I hope to have a writeup with complete instructions and pictures for various smoker mods on the website soon..
Visit Smoking-Meat.com and WYNTK.us for hundreds of great tutorials and guides on smoking meat.
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A: You have a very good question and while there is no way to completely explain with mere words how to modify your horizontal smoker with a baffle I will try to give you the basic idea and with a little creativity you may be able to make something that will work.
The problem with horizontals is that the area just inside the smoke chamber where the radiant heat enters from the firebox is blazing hot and will burn meat if placed there while the other end is usually too cool so you either have to keep the meat away from the firebox end and continually turn it and flip it to get it done evenly or you have to modify it with a baffle of some sort to more evenly distribute the heat.
I am not a welder and I did not modify mine myself but rather had it done for me however you must place a piece of flat metal just under the grate extending the full length of the smoke chamber. the baffle should have width-wise slots cut in it every couple of inches or so that are very narrow at the firebox end and continually larger/wider as you get further away from the firebox.
This allows less heat to enter at the hot end and more heat to enter at the cooler end and thereby evens out the temp a little bit.
You can also set a pan of water at the entrance of the firebox to the smoke chamber to act as a barrier to the radiant heat and to create some steam which will naturally try to regulate the temperature in the smoker.
In creating the baffle, if you do not have a welding machine you can have something fabricated and then use some long bolts anchored thru the smoke chamber walls to set the baffle onto.
Pictures would do this operation a lot more justice but at present I do not have any.
I hope to have a writeup with complete instructions and pictures for various smoker mods on the website soon..
Visit Smoking-Meat.com and WYNTK.us for hundreds of great tutorials and guides on smoking meat.
The Technorati Tag for this post is Horizontal Smoker Modification
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