Jeff Davidson
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Last night I put a whole ham in the wsm with an estimated cook time of 16 hours. The wsm sits on our wooden deck. I've purchased an insulated disk that sits under the wsm and protects the deck.
As I was drowsing off to sleep, I started thinking about the possibility that operator error or a small animal could land me in the Darwin awards. It was pretty easy to dream up the Darwin Award tag line: "Barbecue enthusiast cooks delicious meat on deck in woods full of animals, blithely goes to sleep, burns house and family while squirrels feast."
Our deck is gated and there's a fence around the back yard that keeps most animals out but we do have occassional racoon, opposum and coyote. Also, late at night, I've been known to make a mistake or two..
It would be inconvenient to move the wsm off the deck in the winter because of the snow and mud we experience here in the northeast.
thoughts on how to make this safer? Or perhaps I should just put the wsm away for the winter?
tia,
jd
As I was drowsing off to sleep, I started thinking about the possibility that operator error or a small animal could land me in the Darwin awards. It was pretty easy to dream up the Darwin Award tag line: "Barbecue enthusiast cooks delicious meat on deck in woods full of animals, blithely goes to sleep, burns house and family while squirrels feast."
Our deck is gated and there's a fence around the back yard that keeps most animals out but we do have occassional racoon, opposum and coyote. Also, late at night, I've been known to make a mistake or two..
It would be inconvenient to move the wsm off the deck in the winter because of the snow and mud we experience here in the northeast.
thoughts on how to make this safer? Or perhaps I should just put the wsm away for the winter?
tia,
jd