On Mar 27, 8:46 pm, "Brick" > wrote:
> On 26-Mar-2007, "skeeter" >
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Group,
> > Ive had a green brinkman smoker (similar to a
> > cajun cooker) and have
> > had a HORRIBLE time getting it lit. I've used
> > an electric starter, a
> > chimney, wrapped up newspaper, charbroil
> > parfaffin "candles", and even
> > standnign on my charcoal (either kingsford,
> > cowboy brand, or this
> > mesquite briquettes I found at Meijer marked
> > Frontier Charcoal). With
> > a blow torch. The most I get is a little bit of
> > grey marks, that's
> > it, no continuous lighting. I can leave the
> > electric starter on for
> > 15-20 minutes and they all do not light,or it
> > takes a long time, and
> > it's frustrating when you tell your friends you
> > have a smoker but
> > can't produce any results.
>
> > The chimney starter was my latest failure, and
> > with that I'd get the
> > newspaper lit at the bottom but then it'd just
> > let off a little bit of
> > grey smoke and then smolder and go out. God
> > forbid I do anything like
> > charcoal lighter fluid because that would not
> > give the meat a good
> > flavor.
>
> > The times when it has lit I've had trouble
> > keeping the temperature up
> > near the "ideal" mark on the thermometer.
> > Somebody suggested that
> > since I leave my charcoal in my garage, which
> > unfortunately has very
> > poor ventilation, that humidity might be the
> > problem.
> > is there any warrant to that?
>
> > Also the smoker looks like the vent holes on the
> > firebox, which sit in
> > the base, may not allow very much ventilation
> > therefore the charcoal
> > will not light very well.
>
> > Please, any advice would be appreciated, even if
> > you tell me to go out
> > and buy a propane or electric assist, or the one
> > with the side mounted
> > firebox with a cross draft (which would
> > definitely hold more meat than
> > what I've got now), but I'd like one that burnt
> > charcoal/wood to give
> > me the flavor I want, thanks in advance!
>
> The first thing you do is get down off that
> mountain so your
> fire can get some oxygen. Failing that, try
> installing a pit-
> minder guru to blow some air. I won't be surprised
> if we learn
> that you live above 5000 feet and from the sounds,
> it's more
> like 9,000.
>
> --
> Brick(Youth is wasted on young people)


The store he mentions is in the Great Lakes region. He's at 700 feet,
roughly, unless he's in the hills of Ohio.

-John O