View Single Post
  #7 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to alt.food.barbecue
Steve Calvin Steve Calvin is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 933
Default better luck smoking

Steve Wertz wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:55:01 -0400, Steve Calvin wrote:
>
>>>> I used the chimney starter saturday with the newspaper drizzled with
>>>> corn oil (the can of PAM was near empty so I used in on the grates)

>> Just curious, why the corn oil? Couple of sheets waded up
>> (not to tightly) and my lump starts fine with no additional
>> fuel other than a match.

>
> I've never had luck with the unfortified newspaper thing. Maybe
> it's the humidity in Texas, even though I keep my B&B lump inside.
>
> -sw


hm, that's bizarre 'cause we get some brutal humidity here
in the summer. I keep my RO lump in the garage which
certainly isn't air conditioned and I've not had any
problem. I usually use two full sheets of the paper. You
know, the sheets that are the entire paper width wide.

Sometimes it doesn't look like it "took" but I go back in 10
minutes or so and that puppies crankin'. <shrug>

--
Steve
http://adirondackoutdoors.forumcircle.com