I️ put a brisket on at 220 last night around 2 am. I woke up and check on it around 5 everything was fine. Checked again at 8 and this is what I️ found. The smoker is a pit boss pellet smoker. I️ used a new meat thermometer called “meat meet”. I️ cleaned before the smoke. Also the smoker was still running at 220 when I️ found it this morning.
by jescowhite6969
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Grease fire was my first guess but you said you cleaned the smoker.
Did you have it wrapped?
No it wasn’t wrapped.
Looks like it caught fire and burned up. There was very high heat that melted the paint on top.
Something probably caused the smoker to dump a boatload of pellets into the firepot
Must be a grease fire. My condolences
Grease fire..keep it clean-er
…and this took quite awhile to occur. Did you forget about it?
Personally, I monitor my cooks.
Carry on, live and learn.
fatty cut, rendered fat, heat plus oxygen plus fat started a fire. fire was contained but uncontrolled and burned down your brisket and your grill…
controller or probe in the pit failed and started feeding non-stop…
i have an independent wireless temp sensor with a configurable range that trips an alarm on my phone and in the house if the temp gets too high or too low letting me know before it gets out of control… and smoke alarm on my patio in case things wild…
Sorry this happened, bud. A grease fire burned everything up. That sucks 🙁
My pellet smoker has an upper rack. I put all my meats on that upper rack, and put aluminum pans of water under them for exactly this reason. It catches all the grease, keeps the smoker clean, and keeps everything moist.
This is a known pitboss problem. People will come in here and rage about you didn’t clean it. The real problem with pitboss grills is with the flame broiler grates. Grease dripping on them and even if they are perfectly clean and in the correct place, you can still have a grease flare up through them. Either grease seaping down through or embers sneaking through them. My pitboss went down the same way and I am super anal about it being clean everytime. There will be plenty of pitboss defenders coming but this is the problem.
Probably a grease fire flare up. It can happen fast and quick. Had this happen with a brisket I cooked at thanksgiving was an American Wagyu brisket. Ended up having to put a drip tray under it to stop it.
Fire?
Sorry my dude
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I don’t think anyone should leave a fire unattended. Instead of overnight, I just take a whole day like Sunday.
You should have been monitoring with at least wireless temp probes to alert of temp high and low.
You could have burned your house down and killed people
Unfortunately your brisket turned into a candle as something caused the fats to combust.
I thought this was your car’s dash when I saw the first pic. No help here but it broke my brain a bit.
I’ve had fire in a cleaned smoker. The fat dripping down wasn’t running off correctly. Set my pork butt on fire looked like a meteor, cut the badly burt stuff off, my wife said it was the best pulled pork she’s ever had lol.
Fat cap up or down?
OP, whatever the cause, don’t do what I did in a similar situation – which was nothing. On my Camp Chef Woodwind paint started peeling away under normal temps but I didn’t think much of it.
Long story short, after just a few years, my $1100 grill is headed to the dump.
Go get yourself some of this paint or similar. Sand that area down and cover it up so you don’t have a rust problem that will prematurely end your grill’s life.
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All the answers are above. Grease fire…the fatty brisket combusted.
Assuming your grill was clean without a lot of ash and soot build-up in it, a water pan under the brisket would help prevent this, or a solid drip pan design (Rec-Teq) would also help.
Contact your manufacturer with pics and tell them the story; they may throw you a bone.
It’s the grill. Time to upgrade to a better brand ie weber, recteq, or traeger
Had the same thing happen to me with my old pit boss, woke up Christmas morning to a hockey puck brisket and burned out inside. I got rid of it that week for a Grilla, no problems since. Id recommend that course of action lol
mine always comes out like that, whats wrong with it ???
Clean your shit you dirty bastard! lol