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Shoutout to the guy at the Modesto swap meet who sold me a $40 offset and told me to season it before my first cook
I had two choices for my first real smoker last spring: drop $300 on a new upright cabinet or grab the beat up $40 offset from this old timer in Modesto. I took the cheap offset, spent a Saturday scraping rust and spraying it down with canola, and my first brisket came out dry as a cracker because I didn't know how to run a fire that small. My neighbor Duane says a cabinet would have treated me better as a beginner since it holds heat steadier. Now I'm stuck wondering if I learned faster by fighting that leaky offset or if I just wasted six months of cooks. Anyone here start on a cheap stick burner and actually glad they did?
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wendyprice26d ago
Did you ever think the leaky offset was actually teaching you something a cabinet never could? Tbh I used to tell new guys to just buy the easy rig and skip the struggle, but after watching a buddy learn fire control the hard way on a junk stick burner, I flipped on that. Six months of dry brisket sucks, but you now know how to read a fire in a way Duane's steady cabinet would have hid from you.
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