Primitive pits- Fire management! Starting, and maintaining a fire!
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- In this video I try to show one method I use to start, build, and maintain a fire!! I attempted to do it on a slightly smaller scale than I would for a long cook. Hopefully you enjoy!
Great video. Fire management is for me one of the enjoyable things of making bbq video’s. Just chilling and hanging out my the offset smoker 🔥🎉👍
Me too!! I will have to say for this video it was actually harder to make a small fire than it is when I make the bigger ones! I wasn’t expecting that lol
@@jcbbq7468 i experience the same and can conclude that fires suppose to be big 🔥
Sweet, thank you! My Primitive 500 gets delivered today!
That’s awesome!!
Appreciate the fine details 👍
The wood sticks your talking about aren’t soaked in fire starter they come from the center of pine i believe it’s were the resin stores in the tree and is very flammable and is great natural fire starter
I appreciate your comments about being neighborly. Hopefully you have succeeded in their eyes.
Good video thanks. A question please: I have good success getting a good bed of coals and managing a good fire, following your technique... for about 4 hours. By that time my coal bed has bled out. I have added splits from the start, frequently it seems, and it keeps up a consistent temp, but then the coals fail about 4 hours in. What do you do to keep the coal bed active for a loooong cook? Thanks! Scott PS: I have a bravos. Good heavy duty machine.
Is it normal for that much smoke to be coming out the firebox door when opened. I would think the draft should take it out the stack. Hmmmm, good video, thank you
Depends if I had the doors open and the direction of the wind at the time
Would it help to put a piece of expanded metal in your fire box to elevate the fire. Let the air flow all around the logs
Very nice. What is the diameter of that firebox?
Thank you
What are your typical sit sizes? Also how much wood do you typically use in a 12 hour cook?
Are the firebox’s made out of a 250gal tank on the outside and like a 24” diameter pipe on the interior of the firebox?
How do you feel about people saying not having a fire box grate will cause rust? Is this true?
I don’t have any rust forming. I also have another smoker manufactured by Lang that came with a grate and I see no difference at all. The big contributor to rust is people not cleaning the ashes out. When ashes are left in the fire box (grate or not) they will get wet. Either from rain or pulling the humidity out of the air. When wood is burned to ash it produces potassium hydroxide, and potassium carbonate which is where pot ash gets its name. Both easily dissolve in water and can get a PH as high as 11 or 12. It’s how some people get the lye to make soap. That’s why people have fire boxes and BBQ grills that rust so bad and fast.
Once your coal bed is established, how often are you adding logs ?
I would say every 40 minutes or so