yep hello what's up guys it's susie hey i'm Todd
we're from HeyGrillHey.com we've had a ton of requests with people
when they see this beautiful blue smoker in our instagram stories they want to
know what it is and how to start it and this is todd's grill so today we're
going to show you how to fire up a drum smoker i've never done it before
so todd's teaching me
are you starting without me yeah i'm gonna have to go get scissors
because i've watched 10 videos on how to do this
and i'm just a amateur
oh i really thought i had it that one
ah i started it for you
okay open it that's why you get paid the big bucks we did it
wow i started from the wrong side okay todd give me a step one for firing
up this beautiful blue drum cooker step one
is clean it out because you've got nasty
grilled drippings and old coals and dust in there you don't want that blowing
around on the next cook so
scrape this extra gunk off guys this is kind of gross
i mean you can leave it if you want i don't think it's any harm but
i like to have a bit of a clean grill is that my spatula yeah
rude the handiest tool i'll wash it for you real nice
did you just snort about as good as you're gonna get
it's clean for a grill yeah step two step two
um we wanna put the charcoal basket back in
boom
and then we wanna fill it with uh some lump charcoal
so you can either dump the coals in before you put it in but i always find
that makes a bit of a mess if i just dump it while
it's in there and also you want to use a really good
lump charcoal B&B is a good option but if you
especially if you can find the huge like mega lump charcoal that stuff works
really good on these barrels so
so you want to fill it just a little over half
um depending on how long you're going to cook so
if you want to go longer then obviously fill it more but if you're only going to
go like five to eight hours probably about
half to two-thirds is about all you need
so in these barrels the best thing that i found are just
wood chunks about that size and my favorite because i like texas style is
post oak so i usually put anywhere from
10 to 15 in there just kind of sprinkle them on the top there
boom just like that so the next thing we want to do is light a chimney
like a half a chimney of charcoal just to put on there and then just let it
burn out
loud truck fight it guys look we got the ac rolling because
we live in a hot area i'm really sorry about the audio but
it's the info that matters okay what we're gonna use today
is check this out
so this is a secret of barbecue backyard pit masters is something like
this barbecue ultraQ so what this does
#NotSponsored I wish you just like it i just like it so
there's uh this thing links to bluetooth and wi-fi which is pretty cool
um and links to a cloud but it basically sends a signal you set a temperature on
the thing that sends a signal and this is a fan
and it blows on the coals down here so down here at the bottom most barrel
manufacturers have this little three-quarter inch
or whatever i don't know what it is um but they most of these companies will
sell this adapter so you just screw this in and then that
just pops in like that make sure that it's
open put this thing somewhere where you won't
lose it like i always do so there's a power plug
a fan plug and
there's a pit temp which is this guy that clips to the
grill grates or to itself
and a food one then they give you this handy dandy little thing
that just oh snap just like that i love it it's great
hello um coals are hot so we're gonna go put
them in whoa don't ruin the camera do you like
my shadow that was nice
okay so we dumped our hot coals in and also
this thing is just reading the ambient temperature out here so it's like oh i
need to blow air on here so it's just really going to burn this
it's going to help you know burn this fire so the coals will really start
and we'll let this go for just a little bit let a bunch of those wood chunks
catch and then we'll put it all together and
let it pre-heat and get ready to put meat on it how long are we gonna
leave this in here with the hot coals on top of the
not hot coals like 10 ish minutes just let the fire really
pick up otherwise it'll just be like a plume of
nasty smoke and you don't want that you want clean smoke also don't forget
to mine is closed don't forget to open this
little thing here we go airflow airflow
i'd say that's pretty good guys so now gloves 10 bucks off of amazon guys just
i buy a new pair once every couple months
so the diffuser plate goes in
real great we need to get this hot so we can clean it off
now i leave it like that
maybe even throw the lid on just a tiny bit
open the dampener just like kind of on so it can heat up
in there so most of these drums unless you're
making one at home you gotta put this in yourself but most of these
drum manufacturers come here put a little like access so that's kind
of like a let's see push it through there
and then clip it onto the grill like so now it's reading the temp
grill instead of the ambient temperature you can watch it go up right
here so let's set this so what temperature do
we want 250 250 okay i'm cooking
beef short ribs today so you hold down the side button
flashing 220 so we go up to 250
push the side button locked in boom now you let it just get up the temp
probably like 20 to 30 minutes for the smoke see how nasty the smoke is
you really want the smoke to just clear out you don't want it to be
this white nasty smoke and you'll know when it's ready it'll tell you
um listen if you don't have one of these things
it's fine and it's currently beeping at me because
the temperature got above 250 and it's like whoa it's too high but that's fine
so i like to bring my temperature way up and then what you do
is put the lid on and just kind of close these dampeners and these
dampeners is what's really going to help you if you don't have one of these cool
little machines um put in get a good temperature reading
like a thermoworks or something you can read your grill temp so you know
where it's at and then just use these temperature
things to kind of just up and down and it'll really these
things will just you don't need one of these this is just a shortcut
and a cheat because i'm lazy but they're awesome
but you don't have to have one
downwind of the smoke while trying to film
if only there was a better grill brush option
susie we should fix that okay just like that so these dampers are
about so it's still sitting at about 270
um but that's fine that's a that's a good point to start the cook as you can
see there's literally zero smoke coming out of this thing like
but it smells incredible and we're ready to cook on it hey sus
cook me some beef you got it