Dirtautoguy
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Hello, my name is Tanner and I just got a new sportsman 7 pit boss.
This is my first NEW smoker I have ever bought. Iv tried several different kinds:
Little chief
Camp chef
Bradley
All of which were bought second hand.
I have done 2 cooks on my sportsman 7 this week, and I have some things I really like and some things I’m a little bit concerned with.
The first dish I did was a simple frozen pizza. I smoked it for about 1.5 hours. The smoker did not produce very much smoke and It did not have very much flavor or show much for smoke.
The dish I did today was a corned beef. I smoked it at about 225 for 4.5 hours and then finished it wrapped in aluminum foil for the last hour. The corned beef certainly looked smoked and it was very good but I’m still concerned about the smoke flavor. I tend to like a strong smoke.
For the first cook I was using straight kingsford garlic,hickory, paprika. For the beef I used a mix of some pellets that were pretty old but still were mostly the kingsford pellets.
I can’t tell if it’s the pellet flavor that just isn’t strong or if the smoker is just not imparting the smoke like I’d expect?
I plan on getting some new pellets this week, I’ll probably try some Pitboss pellets. In the past I usually get bear mountain pellets and my all time favorite is either jack daniels whiskey barrel or bear mountain bourbon. Which obviously are going to be stronger than the kingsford garlic ones.
I am hoping it’s just the pellets I used. I love the smoker other than I’m concerned about that. It came up to temp and maintained temp VERY well and was easy to set and use.
My only other concern I have is the drip tray is very stiff to remove. But I haven’t looked into what’s going on there yet.
I bought the 7 mostly because I want to be able to make and smoke 30lbs summer sausage at a time. My previous smokers could do it but it was very tight
Please note I’m in no way a professional nor do I consider my self a smoking snob. I really enjoy learning though and trying different things. But I deffinatly consider myself a casual smoker.
What are your thoughts and tips?
This is my first NEW smoker I have ever bought. Iv tried several different kinds:
Little chief
Camp chef
Bradley
All of which were bought second hand.
I have done 2 cooks on my sportsman 7 this week, and I have some things I really like and some things I’m a little bit concerned with.
The first dish I did was a simple frozen pizza. I smoked it for about 1.5 hours. The smoker did not produce very much smoke and It did not have very much flavor or show much for smoke.
The dish I did today was a corned beef. I smoked it at about 225 for 4.5 hours and then finished it wrapped in aluminum foil for the last hour. The corned beef certainly looked smoked and it was very good but I’m still concerned about the smoke flavor. I tend to like a strong smoke.
For the first cook I was using straight kingsford garlic,hickory, paprika. For the beef I used a mix of some pellets that were pretty old but still were mostly the kingsford pellets.
I can’t tell if it’s the pellet flavor that just isn’t strong or if the smoker is just not imparting the smoke like I’d expect?
I plan on getting some new pellets this week, I’ll probably try some Pitboss pellets. In the past I usually get bear mountain pellets and my all time favorite is either jack daniels whiskey barrel or bear mountain bourbon. Which obviously are going to be stronger than the kingsford garlic ones.
I am hoping it’s just the pellets I used. I love the smoker other than I’m concerned about that. It came up to temp and maintained temp VERY well and was easy to set and use.
My only other concern I have is the drip tray is very stiff to remove. But I haven’t looked into what’s going on there yet.
I bought the 7 mostly because I want to be able to make and smoke 30lbs summer sausage at a time. My previous smokers could do it but it was very tight
Please note I’m in no way a professional nor do I consider my self a smoking snob. I really enjoy learning though and trying different things. But I deffinatly consider myself a casual smoker.
What are your thoughts and tips?
