Forgot to Poke A Hole in Foil

Open it and poke the hole and make sure there is a drip pan under it. If you have some welding gloves, now is a good time to use them.

or: reach up from underneath and poke it open. Be careful of the drippings and make sure the edges of the foil are pulled down a bit by running a finger around the hole.

As GLH says... use gloves.

Hook

I am sitting here repeating DUH-DUH-DUH over and over to myself!

Good job, Hook!

Obviously you're not the first one to have neglected to poke a hole in the foil...in fact, if we had a show of hands you'd find most of ours in the air! Then the 'next' thing to forget is to put the pan under the smoker...Oh, yeah, like nobody else has forgotten that!!

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Originally posted by Thousand Oakie:
Obviously you're not the first one to have neglected to poke a hole in the foil...in fact, if we had a show of hands you'd find most of ours in the air! Then the 'next' thing to forget is to put the pan under the smoker...Oh, yeah, like nobody else has forgotten that!!

Exactly...and the great part about it is a person only makes these mistakes once...well, hopefully.

The second time is a lot harder to explain.

Welcome to the club!

The only "mistake" you made is you didn't find the thread below. It's got a LOT of these kind of lessons from other owners.

I think that one's in there.

Now if you do it AGAIN, we'll probably not be as helpful

Lessons for New Users

I don't think you forget the pan but once. What a mess to clean up Or use a pan too small for the load either !!

Well forgetting to poke a hole is understandable especially if you set it up after first removing your last smoke! Once I remove my meat I clean up my smoker and set it up for the next smoke minus the wood chunks. I always double check my hole when I add my wood for my smoke. ALSO, I do NOT let anyone clean it or set up for the next smoke but ME!!!!

Well this morning I started smoking 2 slabs of beef ribs. I kept checking the temp but it was not going up as fast as I thought it should. I thought it had started the plateau stage sooner than expected. WELL, my huband went to check on it and discovered my smoker had been UNPLUGGED!!!! UUUUGGGGHHHH It seems my son unpludded it the other night to plug in a flood light so he could use his solar baseball hitter! UUUGGGHHH

I think forgetting to poke a hole is more forgiveable than smoking with out the smoker plugged in!! I feel soo stupid!! UUUGGGHHHH

Hope NO ONE EVER EXPERIENCES THIS!!

HEHEHEHEHEHE

Now that is very funny!!!

Lovetocook.....That happened to me once.......now, after I place the meat in the smoker, I don't leave until I see smoke....then I know all is working fine!!!

As far as circuits popping.......you can always plug a night light in the other plug and turn it on.....if the circuits pop you will know if the nightlight is out...

dan

Don't feel bad lovetocook, I forgot to plug it in once too. Felt stoopid as you said.

But I haven't done it again.

Jim...