Winter smoking

I have done a couple overnite brisket cooks outside when the temps dropped to 15-22 degrees and didnt see any increase in cooking time. Remember the 008 is insulated to 1000*. That HAS to help.

bob

there will be no noticeable difference.....

Hey Geiser

I cooked throughout the winter last year and there has been no differences in my cook times.

I had a 008 until my dad swiped it from me! LOL

Check out my post on the Fe100.

http://forum.cookshackamerica.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cg..._topic;f=23;t=000050

I did my first winter smoke last year - 14 degrees and a howling wind. No effect whatsoever. I know there are others here who have used the CS in worse conditions, making no compensations for time or temp. You'll love your CS! It's a year-round cooker.

Big Daddy Groetsma uses his outdoors at -45� in Alaska.

The drain hole may form an icicle though.

Just be sure to clean out the grease drain holes in the bottom and front of the smoker. They tend to close up in real cold weather. Roger

Thanks guys. Its been really mild here in Ohio thus far, but just give it 5 minutes and it can change. I'll be doing summer sausage chubs next week for Christmas presents and didnt want any surprises.

RStrand -- Thanks for reminding me about the grease. I remember last year cooking a butt and the little mountain of solidified drippings almost clogged the drain. Ya need to move the drip pan every once in a while to create a mountain range and not let MT Everest develope

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Originally posted by Tom:
[qb] Big Daddy Groetsma uses his outdoors at -45� in Alaska.

The drain hole may form an icicle though. [/qb]

-45 degrees? Wow. I'm planning on smoking when it gets real cold here... just because I can! But we usually only hit -30 degrees at the coldest....