Never happened before? Just throw a little bit of water on it, and you’ll be fine. Probably due for a scraping sometime soon. I find that when I smoke a ton without grilling in between, I get a flareup. I just throw a little water on it, cook what I have and before I cook again, scrape the shield.
dasnoob
Is it just me or do the grease fires always happen with people using these as grills and not smokers?
PuzzleheadedStuff2
Baking soda normally works. For future reference I use big baking pans and a cooling rack on top. Then I put my meat on top of the rack. The pan catches the drippings and greatly reduces the chance of a grease fire. Additionally the meat can still get smoke on all sides with the wire rack. Plus cleanup is crazy easy. Also, you can add the rendered fat back onto the meat before you wrap. One grease fire and I’ve changed my mind on pans.
AnonymousCreamPie
It just got turned into a BBQ. You took to searing the steaks beforehand instead of reverse style.
Jaxcat_21
PwnedByBinky
Instructions unclear, baptism by fire mode activated
awesometakespractice
that happened to me the first time i tried 0 to 400 chicken thighs. that was some smoky chicken lmao
Early-Fortune2692
Some men just want to see their grills burn 🔥
basement-thug
Obviously cleaning is key… You can avoid this by heating it up gradually. I turn mine on, let it stabilize at 180, and then set to 275, settle, 300, settle, 350..when the smoke mostly clears up I cook. These things really don’t like going above 400 or so I have learned. Cooked the paint off my stack when I set it to like 450 once and it ran away on me. Paint on stack outside was literally on fire lol.
Late_Fisherman575
everybody has a desk pop
CCCcrazyleftySD
I get this whenever I do something low and slow, so there are hours of drippings, and then crank the heat up, all that grease goes right up in flames. After the first time, I’ve kept a fire extinguisher close by
cmtalkington
This happened to me over the weekend!! I should have been more diligent cleaning it!!
Dan_H1281
The best way to put this out is to close the lid pull the power wrap the exhaust with a wet towel. I was once cooking like 20 lbs of some greasy sausage it wasn’t quite done yet for the church so I turned it up just a little and when I did it caught fire burned everything down bad got my fire box the cord all kinds of stuff the way I got it out was the towel on the exhaust
RedDeadYellowBlue
This is why I dont smoke over 275… Smoke point on animal fat is 300*
My GMG turned into a jet engine shooting flames out the grease outlet
dubie2003
Is this due to grease or is it due to lack of cleaning out the ash?
TrashKingBob
Mine always does this when I crank it up to 500 so I stopped trying to char steaks
1crps_warrior
Had a pretty bad grease fire in my Rec Teq. Had the temperature set to full to do some burgers. Destroyed the light and all the paint peeled off the inside.
chiefbeefsalad
Yeah I lost my Austin XL to a fire the burning box kept stuffing more pellets and they caught fire and started spreading uncontrollably
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Finally happened… grease fire?
Fast temperature start up mode? Lol
Never happened before? Just throw a little bit of water on it, and you’ll be fine. Probably due for a scraping sometime soon. I find that when I smoke a ton without grilling in between, I get a flareup. I just throw a little water on it, cook what I have and before I cook again, scrape the shield.
Is it just me or do the grease fires always happen with people using these as grills and not smokers?
Baking soda normally works. For future reference I use big baking pans and a cooling rack on top. Then I put my meat on top of the rack. The pan catches the drippings and greatly reduces the chance of a grease fire. Additionally the meat can still get smoke on all sides with the wire rack. Plus cleanup is crazy easy. Also, you can add the rendered fat back onto the meat before you wrap. One grease fire and I’ve changed my mind on pans.
It just got turned into a BBQ. You took to searing the steaks beforehand instead of reverse style.
Instructions unclear, baptism by fire mode activated
that happened to me the first time i tried 0 to 400 chicken thighs. that was some smoky chicken lmao
Some men just want to see their grills burn 🔥
Obviously cleaning is key… You can avoid this by heating it up gradually. I turn mine on, let it stabilize at 180, and then set to 275, settle, 300, settle, 350..when the smoke mostly clears up I cook. These things really don’t like going above 400 or so I have learned. Cooked the paint off my stack when I set it to like 450 once and it ran away on me. Paint on stack outside was literally on fire lol.
everybody has a desk pop
I get this whenever I do something low and slow, so there are hours of drippings, and then crank the heat up, all that grease goes right up in flames. After the first time, I’ve kept a fire extinguisher close by
This happened to me over the weekend!! I should have been more diligent cleaning it!!
The best way to put this out is to close the lid pull the power wrap the exhaust with a wet towel. I was once cooking like 20 lbs of some greasy sausage it wasn’t quite done yet for the church so I turned it up just a little and when I did it caught fire burned everything down bad got my fire box the cord all kinds of stuff the way I got it out was the towel on the exhaust
This is why I dont smoke over 275… Smoke point on animal fat is 300*
My GMG turned into a jet engine shooting flames out the grease outlet
Is this due to grease or is it due to lack of cleaning out the ash?
Mine always does this when I crank it up to 500 so I stopped trying to char steaks
Had a pretty bad grease fire in my Rec Teq. Had the temperature set to full to do some burgers. Destroyed the light and all the paint peeled off the inside.
Yeah I lost my Austin XL to a fire the burning box kept stuffing more pellets and they caught fire and started spreading uncontrollably