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FM Former Member
I am new to this group. My name is Chris . A little back ground. I have been smoking commercially with Cookshack smokers for 6 year. I have been around them for about 9 years. This spring I opened a Restaurant . I needed a bigger smoker. I went with the Fast Eddy 100. Wow I have had 3-5 good fires in it. I have talk to a lot of people. Still cant stop it from catching on fire. It seems to work fine then it wil catch on fire. I am looking for any and all help. This is what happened last night.

I turned off the smoker. It had been on for 12 hrs. I smoked 80 lb of pork. I let the smoker cool for about 1 hr. I then cleaned the “drip tray” , fire box, rack, grease run. I emptied the grease pan.
I then loaded the smoker 3 pork butts on the bottom self 3 pork butts on the next self 1 brisket on the 3rd self and 1 brisket on the top self. Approx 80-85 lb of meat. Set the unit to cook for 14 hrs at 250. This was about 10 pm. When I left at 10:30-10:40 it seemed to be going great. Temp was at 220 and going higher. Around 6:45 am I got the call. “the smoker seems to be on fire again”. When I got to it there was a small grease fire. Small because it had already burned up all the meat. I but the fire out and took pics.
Can anyone give some word of help. Starting to wish I stuck with the Cookshack. I do love the ribs that come out of the fast Eddy. Could use a little more smoke in the meat. Thanks for any help

Chris
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M maxqMember
Welcome aboard Chris.

It sounds like you're doing all the right things to keep the box clean and grease free. Check the firepot for excess ash after a long smoke. Unless someone else has a better fix, give Cookshack a call in the morning. Don't despair...you have a great smoker and a solution will be found.

There are some tweaks for more smoke flavor but let's get you up and running first.
FM Former Member
Still didn't give enough details.

Grease has to be splashing to the fire in order to catch fire, that means it's collecting somehow.

My guess would be something isn't level.

It's not the design, I've cooked 16 PB in it plenty of times and never a fire.

Seriously look at the amount of grease and that it has to be either splashing or collecting somewhere.
L larryjacobsMember
I wish I had an answer but after several bad fires here's what I came up with:
1) I forgot to clean the drip tray and re-foil.
2) I didn't seat the drip tray properly on the high side so it went flat.
3) I over loaded so some grease missed the tray and went to the floor. If you are finding grease on the unit bottom where the hole is, that could be a clue.
4) I spent to much time foiling with the door open, the temp dropped, the auger over filled the pot, when the door closed the to full pellets caught fire and spilled onto the floor catching grease on fire. I now shut off if I need to have door open for more that 1 minute.
FM Former Member
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Originally posted by Larry Jacobs:
I wish I had an answer but after several bad fires here's what I came up with:
1) I forgot to clean the drip tray and re-foil.
2) I didn't seat the drip tray properly on the high side so it went flat.
3) I over loaded so some grease missed the tray and went to the floor. If you are finding grease on the unit bottom where the hole is, that could be a clue.
4) I spent to much time foiling with the door open, the temp dropped, the auger over filled the pot, when the door closed the to full pellets caught fire and spilled onto the floor catching grease on fire. I now shut off if I need to have door open for more that 1 minute.


how do you shut off, just open the pellet door?
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FM Former Member
You forgot that many of the IQ4 models have a hopper lid switch that stops the auger from turning when the hopper lid is opened.

I still need to know what he's wanting to shut off... the unit or the fire.

If it was ME, and it was a fire, I'd unplug the whole thing and grab a box of baking soda.
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S smokeniceMember
I believe he is refering to pellet feed and the current version FEC 100 has a lid switch required by UL to do just this. Open the lid of the pellet hopper and it will shut the feeder off.

Just cooked 4 butts and 6 briskets and no issue. Make sure the cooker is level and the grease is going into the hotel pan and not accumulating on the floor of the the cooker. If it's on the floor then look for the reason why.

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