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stirthepot · Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 14 Location: Just Outside Boston

Try putting your Chimney Starter on top of a small can of lit sterno. Takes about 2-3 minutes for the coals to catch...move the starter off the sterno. No more fuss with paper!
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cityevader · Posted: Jun 22 2010 Post subject:

Pork chops? Watch your temps....get ready to pull at around 140-145�...so easy to overcook.
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feldon30 · Posted: Jun 23 2010 Post subject:

After you put your 2 sheets of newspaper into the chimney starter, spray the paper with some Pam cooking spray (vegetable oil). That will increase your luck of getting the charcoals burning the first time.
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Toga · Posted: Jun 23 2010 Post subject:

I say you give up now. Box up that smoker and send it to me for proper disposal Laughing

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PearchMan · Posted: Jun 23 2010 Post subject:

BriGreentea · Posted: Jun 23 2010 Post subject:

I like my charcoal chimney....beats lighter fluid on many levels. I like to put it straight in my pit on my offset or on my water smoker will put a grate at the top and light it. Putting it on concrete can create a mess.
I have found cheap charcoal brands do not light well. Kingsford lights much better and stay lit for a long time. I have tried once putting wood chunks at the bottom with the charcoal and had trouble getting it lit so stopped that. If I see it's not lighting very well then will stick in more newspapers on the sides with a poker stick and keep lighting it on all sides. Eventually will light and as long as you leave it alone for at least 10 minutes will be good enough to toss it in the pit. Then it's a matter of time to wait until the smoker gets up to temp.

matman9 · Joined: 19 Jun 2010 Posts: 9

Chicken turned out much better on Sunday. Still took a long time to get the starter going and longer than the book said for the heavey smoke to go away I reduced the amount of wood chunks and it was less smokey like everyone said. I am doing the brined chicken today so I will see how it turns out. I am getting a little tired of chicken however but I am going to follow what the book says to a t. Thanks for all the input.

ChuckieD · BBQ Super Pro Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Posts: 1129

Matman9,
Keep chasing that chicken you will get it soon! You are on the right track! Like Jarhead said �it has happened to all of us!� I still have problems with chicken every now and again. Wink

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cityevader · Posted: Jun 25 2010 Post subject:

WHEW!!!
All this talk of chicken had me drooling....so here's some food pron from tonight's dinner cooked over the ol' Smokey Joe. Ten more degrees till yummy yumminess!!

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