Well I'm back at it again. A few weeks ago I made some smoked salmon and it came out nicely. Somehow, actually by dumb luck it seems, I managed to get the big kahuna external smoke generator loaded just right and it lit and smoked for several hours. But, as it happens to be, I don't know just what I did right that time but can't seem to get it going nicely again. I made some more salmon yesterday and had to keep trying to re-light it every 20 minutes or so. I use mixed hardwood scraps from my workshop that I cut into small irregular pieces along with some coarse saw dust and shavings in hopes of getting it to light and stay going for awhile.
Am I doing something wrong here
? When I attempt to light it with my torch it smokes very well for awhile but just won't stay lighted as I hoped it would.
I was looking at this Bella device that Smoking-It is offering and like the concept ( seems to be much like the Kahuna) but I don't like that it takes pellets. So that might be a deal breaker for me.
So, still working on a workable (for me) cold smoke method.
ThanX all,
Roger from NJ