On 27-Dec-2004, "Brian Worthey" > wrote:

> I got a new smoker for Christmas, an offset by Chargriller, and I will be
> curing it first thing in the morning. I noticed in the instructions about
> rubbing down all surfaces with vegetable oil and building a fire, but also
> noticed that somewhere it mentioned that it had already been rubbed with a
> "specially approved" vegetable oil to cure/season it. The cooking grates
> and inside of the smoker was just sticky though and I am wondering if I
> just
> need to let this burn off first then rub it down with some vegetable oil,
> or
> just go ahead rub it down with a bit more oil and build me a fire. Any
> advice here?
>
> B-Worthey

Get that sucker good and hot before you put any food in it. I built a fire
right in the cook chamber of my New Braunfels when it was new. I think
I only had briquettes at the time, but it got the job done very nicely. When
you get ready to cook and build your fire in the firebox, it will burn clean

long before the cook chamber gets up to temp and stabilizes. It only takes
a few minutes in a small area like the firebox.

--
Brick(DL5BF, WA7ERO, HS4ADI)


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