Pro tip: that fancy offset smoker almost burned my house down

I was dead set against ceramic cookers for years, thought they were overpriced egg shaped nonsense. Then my offset smoker shot a grease fire 8 feet high during a 16 hour pork butt cook and I almost called the fire department. Has anyone else had a smoker disaster that made you switch gear completely?

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the_elliot29d ago

that fancy offset smoker almost burned my house down" ... yeah, my buddy had his weber kettle catch the deck on fire during a brisket and he switched to a pit barrel cooker the next week.

linda_wood29d ago

150 dollars worth of meat gone in a flash, @the_elliot. I saw a guy lose a whole pork shoulder that way once. Lithium ion batteries near a smoker is a recipe for disaster too.