How to Make and Test a Smoke-Pot for your Existing LP Grill

This is a video on how you can use your existing LP grill to smoke food and get results similar to a traditional Tennessee style masonry BBQ pit without actually having one. It requires that you get and modify a #8 Lodge cast iron skillet lid and skillet (no change to it) and place it directly on your rock-grate in your existing LP grill. You have the responsibility to ensure that the burner is not obstructed an functions properly. Run the grill on low and watch for flare-ups. Space the meat as high as possible and KEEP AN EYE ON IT.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Lodge
• Manufacturing
• 10-1/4
• #8
• skillet
• smoke-pot
• smoker
• masonry
• pit
• wood
• chips
• Dutch
• oven

[pleal1]

Have you ever tried cooking you're venison summer sauages in you're BBQ with the smoke pot? Thinking about trying it? I hope you do try it just for the heck of it! Thank you so much for this vid!

[rldel149]

Oh yea.. sure

[hardhitter0421]

Ok..I do not want to seem stupid..however, are the wood chips in the cast iron placed on fire or does the charcoal briquette heat the skillet and make the wood chips smoke?. I must have missed something here. In other words...I have never done this and I just was at a lose for the heat and smoke techniques...what are the steps needed to make the wood chips smoke and what heats the wood chips?

[rldel149]

The chips are dry, but could be wetted/soaked before. They are not lit or started on fire nor anything like that, the pot simply deprives the the wood of oxygen while the heat from underneath makes all water and fluids essentially, steam out (i.e. smoke out). What is left is pure charcoal.

If the pot get hot enough, the smoke being boiled out the 8 holes will ignite and it will quit smoking and act as a blow-torch and you won't get any smoke (burning smoke produces little smoke of its own).

[rldel149]

@robertmyers04 - how about this brother?

[hardhitter0421]

Thank you so much...I have an opportunity to use this method and up until this demonstration of yours, well we have simply placed chips on the grill? I mean this is so much more controlled and sensible. I bet my next batch of ribs will be sooo good...have a great day.

[rldel149]

I don't get them to stretch quite that long but on low I probably get more than a day's worth of burn. Never timed total hours on a tank.

[07HONDA400EX07]

ok. thanks for the tips. but on propane tanks, most only last about 4-5 hours full. i plan on running mine for 6-8 hours or even longer. how do you keep yours going longer? do you switch propane tanks or what?

[rldel149]

It works for me. ;-)

To really slow smoke you can move the meat over the other burners on the upper rack and even use the heavy turkey for a drip pan to keep the grill cleaner. What will work for you is of course - grill dependent.

Good luck.

[07HONDA400EX07]

thanks alot for this video! this is so simple. i plan on making deer and beef jerky by smoking it like this. alot of "how to make a grill smoker" require 10 different things you need but all you need is a cast iron skillet and some wood chips! thanks again!