The Bradley puck feeder requires two non-burned pucks to push #3 and
more onto the heating element. When the hopper is empty and the smoking
has ended, the last two pucks remain on the slide to the heater.They
sell aluminum "dummy" pucks for this purpose, but I haven't gotten them
yet. That means if you want to feed in 4 pucks to the smoker, you need
to load the hopper with 6. The downside to the Bradley design is that
the next-to-last puck gets partially consumed because of the heat of the
one on the heating element. It's really no big deal, but the aluminum
dummy pucks would stop that small bit of waste.

So far, I'm really impressed with the puck and heater concept. Like all
of us, I've used preburned coals generally for my old smokers and have
experimented with briquettes and lump. The most bitter smoke is that
from wood chips heated over a fire, such as in foil or a covered pan,
IMHO. The sweetest so far was the preburned wood, such as hickory
coals. Right now, I'd have to swear that the Bradley puck system gives
me a sweeter and cleaner smoke than any I've had before over all these
years. I'm really impressed. A side benefit is that between cranking
the damper down pretty tight and the water pan that catches the burned
pucks, the smoker does a darned good job at giving a high humidity- as
in an R2D2. I've just dumping my used marinade into the pan, and it
seems to give the humidity a little bit of flavor in and of itself.

I also went out to Bass Pro Shops today and got a second set of 4 racks.
The idea is that you can invert one rack on top of another, doubling
the amount of thin meat, such as fish or jerky, that you can smoke in
one sitting.

Nonny

Steve Wertz wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:58:16 -0800, Nonnymus wrote:
>
>> The wings went onto 2 racks, set in the center at 240f, with 4+2 pucks
> ...
>> They're cooking with 8 +2 pucks of Pecan with the
>
> What is the meaning of the "x+y pucks" notation?
>
> -sw

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