Explain to me again about why the CS doesnt make a smoke ring?

Read these links:


http://forum.cookshackamerica.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cg...f=16;t=000152#000000

http://forum.cookshackamerica.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cg...f=16;t=000114#000000

http://forum.cookshackamerica.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cg...f=15;t=000519#000001

So chicken, our posts are just a bunch of blah, blah to you? No offense intended, none taken

We get lots of people asking the same questions over and over and over...but we have a great group here that jumps in and tries to be helpful. If all the old users will bear with us repeating ourselves, we'll try to explain. Just sometimes the answer is right there in the Search Option.

Thanks Dave for posting those links.

Russ

Oh, and Chicken...blah, blah, blah

DOH

no seriously, I read those posts, learned about the nitrates and oxides causeing the reaction and so forth to make the ring from the heat source and not the wood....however, .I still dont understand what makes our heat source different than others if we maintain the same slow and low temp?

david
blah

Ah, Grasshopper, I see potential confusion...

quote:

...the reaction and so forth to make the ring from the heat source and not the wood

Nope you've got it backward. The wood not the heat creates it. Don't know about "oxides" causing it, but I do know about Nitrates/Nitrites doing the work.

The difference is that it's not Heat that creates nitrates/nitrites. Electricity burning a heating element creates none of that. Proof? That's why a Cs doesn't create a SR.

What does? Go to the first link above.

Wood/Charcoal and other artificial sources will work their magic.

That's why putting in a piece of charcoal works better than just a piece of wood. Oz for Oz it will put out more Nitrites than wood, until wood hits the charcoal stage (but then it's smaller)

Chickenlips, it comes down to the CS is to effient. It does not use enoough wood to have the nitrates from the wood cause the smoke ring. In a charcoal or stick burner there is a lot more fuel (heat source)with nitrates. In the CS the heat comes from the electric heating element which has none.