To summarize, a reverse flow would be best if you're doing a lot of catering, fundraisers, or you're cooking for a restaurant or something, and you've got a lot of the same kind of food. Keep in mind, maintaining the temperature in an offset smoker is a learned skill. Operating any offset smoker does require that you flip and rotate your meat, and maybe even move it from one side to the other if temperatures demand. To maintain temperature in this type of smoker you will vary the size of your fire, but opening and closing the smokestack damper is another method you will likely use. It is mounted about the level of the cooking grates. The smokestack location on an offset smoker will always be at the opposite end of the cooking chamber from the firebox. It is positioned at 50% or higher on the sidewall of the cooking chamber. The position of the firebox on an offset smoker helps to get the air moving straight up to the top of the cook chamber. (LIke a short horizontal piece connected to a scoop shaped piece that aims up) The air then moves across the top of the cooker and convects downward toward the smokestack on the opposite side. Starting with the throat opening there’s a baffle put in to direct the air straight up quickly. There is no baffle plate which runs horizontally through the cooking chamber. Cooking happens from the top down on this type of smoker. You can cook a variety of meats on the same cooker because of the possible different temperature zones it may produce. It’s just a firebox, cook chamber, smokestack, and a throat baffle. These are the least like a reverse flow smoker. Open Chamber Offsets or Texas Style Offset Smokers are very popular. You can check out our Offset Smoker Plans By Clicking Here! Open Chamber Offsets Some people open the cook chamber door a little. I usually close off the smokestack damper and adjust an air inlet on the firebox. Maintaining the temperature in a traditional offset is a bit more complicated than in a reverse flow smoker. Unlike a reverse flow, the smokestack location on an offset smoker will always be at the opposite end of the cooking chamber from the firebox. The setting of these tuning plates allows the pitmaster to control the temperature zones in the cooking chamber. This controls the air flow and spread of heat. The pitmaster tunes these plates with gaps between them. The tuning plate system consists of short tuning plates each one usually less than 10 inches long spread out horizontally in the cooking chamber under the main cooking grate. Radiant heat is at work to cook from the bottom up. It goes through the gaps you create by “tuning the plates”. This style smoker operates a lot like a reverse flow but the air doesn’t wait until the end of the horizontal baffle to go up. You can check out all of our Reverse Flow Smoker Plans By Clicking Here Traditional Offset Smokers All you need to do is use an air inlet damper and a smokestack damper to increase or decrease the amount of air that goes to your fire. This design assures full air flow from the firebox until it reaches the baffle plate gap at the end of the smoker, as mentioned previously.Īfter a good fire start up, Maintaining cooking temperatures in a Reverse Flow is really very simple. The firebox on a Reverse Flow Smoker is placed low in the cooking chamber just a little below the baffle plate level. The smoke stack is set at “top dead center”. At that point, there is a gap which forces the air, heat, and smoke to go up and turn around 180 degrees, hence the name Reverse Flow. It has a baffle plate which is installed horizontally in the cook chamber from the firebox end all the way across until it gets to the opposite end of the smoker. On a Reverse Flow Smoker food is being cooked from the bottom up instead of from the top down like on an open chamber offset. You may find plans for both styles on which may be built from tanks, pipe or flat metal. They usually cost more to build than the alternative styles of traditional offset or Texas offset. Back to the article! Reverse Flow SmokersĪ Reverse Flow Smoker produces a very even cooking temp from left to right and requires very little intervention from the cook. Grab as many sets of smoker plans as you want on your first purchase! And Now. Make sure to write down this special discount code for 50% Off your first set of our smoker plans! What's the difference between a reverse flow smoker and an offset smoker? What is a traditional offset? What is an open chamber offset? Read below to find out my view on these designs. If you're trying to learn the differences between Reverseflow and Offset smokers this episode of the PitMaster Secrets podcast is for you!
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