Smoker Contest Winners

[NSalzmann]

I was going to ask for advice for long-burning smoker fuels (my current fuel, bailing twine, just doesn't cut it), but I noticed old posts about DCBA meetings with Smoker Contests.  Does anyone remember what fuels were used by the winners?  (I'm assuming the winners aren't so proprietary as to not share their knowledge.)

 

-Nolan Salzmann

Wigglemuffin Honey

[Betsy True]

I have had very good luck with a handful of hardwood sawdust over a piece of flannel cloth. Once it gets going, it stays lit. …I light off with a propane torch.

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Betsy True

[jeanne hansen]

Nolan,

Those wood pellets they sell for pellet-burning stoves smoke a long time, but you need a propane torch to get them lighted.

I roll up strips of corrugated cardboard, the height of my smoker,  making the rolls fat enough to fill the smoker but still slip in easily.   Make sure the corrugations run from top to bottom, forming natural chimneys.   I light them over a candle, because I don't have a propane torch, and I'm not buying one!  A fresh roll of this cardboard smokes for a couple hours.

The smoker contest was fun, but we never actually named a winner.

  

Thanks!

Jeanne Hansen

824 Jacobson Ave

Madison, WI 53714

608-244-5094

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From: NSalzmann <koo...@hotmail.com>
To: mad...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:26 AM
Subject: [madbees] Smoker Contest Winners

I was going to ask for advice for long-burning smoker fuels (my current fuel, bailing twine, just doesn't cut it), but I noticed old posts about DCBA meetings with Smoker Contests.  Does anyone remember what fuels were used by the winners?  (I'm assuming the winners aren't so proprietary as to not share their knowledge.)

 

-Nolan Salzmann

Wigglemuffin Honey

[marcus]

I used corrugated cardboard like Jeanne, but more recently moved to burlap.  I find it easier to light and lasts as long.  Landscaping burlap might be contaminated with pesticides so you can wash it or use fabric store burlap.

[Paul Zelenski]

I jut use dried grass, leaves and twigs. It doesn't last particularly long, but there's always more underfoot.

[Josh Whitlock]

We use a mixture of egg cartons/fast food drink carriers and bailing twine. I take 4-6 cups of the egg carton (so about 1/4 of the whole egg side) and wrap bailing twine around it loosely. The bailing twine has some straw or hay from teh floor as well sometimes.

Josh

 

Josh Whitlock
bwa...@yahoo.co
Columbus, WI

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Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [madbees] Smoker Contest Winners

[Marcus Hagen]

I use the bedding wood chips you can get them at any pet store, I use the pine and cedar wood chips. Pine is cheaper but cedar smells better to each their own, just crumple some news paper up in the bottem of the smoker and use a grill lighter to get it going then dump some of the wood chips on the burning paper. It works pretty well for me and will stay going for a good time as long as you keep using the smoker. I always try to use smoker fuel that doesnt have any chemicals added to it and that is the best I have found.

[Dan Curran]

I use wood pellets, started with corrugated cardboard. I find the key is to keep the blackened pellets from previous burning (stored in a coffee can in an airtight ammo box with the smoker); they start right up.

Dan

On Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:26:17 AM UTC-5, NSalzmann wrote:

[Donald Butzke]

I like to use teak sawdust and a couple pine cones. Burned teak sawdust kinda smells like church incense I think.

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[Ruth Harms]

I too use a pine cone with pine needles. For me, the key is to get it going well enough in the first place. Don't put it down until it's really lit. It's also part of the whole of bee keeping!  Kind of one of those , "what kind of a bee experience will I have today?" questions for the very-hobby keeper.