PeterD
TVWBB Super Fan
Hi all,
After my big weekend cook was successfully completed one of my guests accidentally bumped the now (thankfully) empty WSM about 5 hours after the last butt was taken off. The smoker was still at full operating temperature and the water pan full of water, pork and brisket drippings. After 17 hours of operation, there was a lot of fine powder from Comp-K in the bottom of WSM and about a third of a ring of lit. Once about half the water pan's contents hit the coals, the resultant WHOOSH was frighteningly spectacular to witness. Beige-coloured ash blew out every opening with incredibly ferocity and the stink was beyond belief.
In the cooled-off aftermath, no amount of water soaking is getting the discolouration off the enamel surfaces (inside or out) and the smell is still beyond belief. I was thinking to just run the WSM empty, on high-heat, empty water pan and let the coals burn themselves out but I'm wondering if that is the best approach to getting this back to the way it was. Should I use some kind of de-greasing solvent, oven cleaner or something else? I'd like to get the outside looking like new again but the inside had a nice coating of grease and smoke. Whaddya think I should do here?
After my big weekend cook was successfully completed one of my guests accidentally bumped the now (thankfully) empty WSM about 5 hours after the last butt was taken off. The smoker was still at full operating temperature and the water pan full of water, pork and brisket drippings. After 17 hours of operation, there was a lot of fine powder from Comp-K in the bottom of WSM and about a third of a ring of lit. Once about half the water pan's contents hit the coals, the resultant WHOOSH was frighteningly spectacular to witness. Beige-coloured ash blew out every opening with incredibly ferocity and the stink was beyond belief.
In the cooled-off aftermath, no amount of water soaking is getting the discolouration off the enamel surfaces (inside or out) and the smell is still beyond belief. I was thinking to just run the WSM empty, on high-heat, empty water pan and let the coals burn themselves out but I'm wondering if that is the best approach to getting this back to the way it was. Should I use some kind of de-greasing solvent, oven cleaner or something else? I'd like to get the outside looking like new again but the inside had a nice coating of grease and smoke. Whaddya think I should do here?
