Jeff Brown (KY)
TVWBB Super Fan
Welcome Jamie and thank you for taking the time to be here!
In Weber's Smoke, your steps to preparing the smoker include putting a full chimney of unlit charcoal into the charcoal ring and then lighting a 1/2 to a full chimney and poring it on top of the unlit. The unlit eventually lighting and extending the cook.
In the tending to the fire section, if you need to add fuel you recommend adding lit charcoal because unlit can emit an acrid aroma at first that can ruin the food.
My question is - Why isn't there a concern of this acrid aroma from unlit charcoal at the start of the cook but there is when adding unlit later in the cook?
In Weber's Smoke, your steps to preparing the smoker include putting a full chimney of unlit charcoal into the charcoal ring and then lighting a 1/2 to a full chimney and poring it on top of the unlit. The unlit eventually lighting and extending the cook.
In the tending to the fire section, if you need to add fuel you recommend adding lit charcoal because unlit can emit an acrid aroma at first that can ruin the food.
My question is - Why isn't there a concern of this acrid aroma from unlit charcoal at the start of the cook but there is when adding unlit later in the cook?