so i am just going through my routine. i have 10 butts in front of me and am preparing to spice and rub them. already stoked the smoker. oh yea, i forgot to spray. yea, i spray the grill area with pam to ease the sticky mess afterwords. so im spraying and for no reason, i read the label. hmm, it says"spray on meats to help keep rubs and spices from falling off during cooking" or something to that effect. wow! what a great idea. so i sprayed those ten butts with pam. BIG MISTAKE! DONT TRY THIS! haha, well, it is costly to be an experimentalist. everything was fine for the first 7 hours. nothing unusual at all. but then..... i was in the other room working on an order, am my wife, while in the smoke room taking an order calls for me. loudly. she says 'mike, i think your smoker is overdoing it. maybe you should check it out'. when i got in the smoke room, i could barely see. the whole outside of the restaurant was barely visible. what the? i opened the smoker door.... all ten butts were a roaring inferno! what a waste. it took gallons of water to put out the fire. i was even glancing at the fire extinguisher and thinking...'your on deck..' just hope if any of you ever read that can, dont believe what you read......
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