Spring maintenance of the offset smoker

Offset smokers rust, that's the sad truth. You can sandblast and paint with high temp paint but usually at leats the hottest part, the fire box, will rust. That can be dealt with in different ways. After a tip, I last year used cooking oil and coated the firebox and main chamber. With good result. But after a Norwegian winter, even under canvas, it needed some attention again. I used cooking oil again but coated the whole thing this time. So this year I fired up in all three compartments to dry the oil.

This how I did last year: http://grillpjokken.blogspot.no/2017/07/oiling-offset-smoker.html

Before

Before

Before

Before

Prepared for three fires.

This got over 260 degC, so I took off the thermometer as it went to peak.

Not so hot in the tower, actually a bit too low to dry the oil as good as the other sections.

After

After

After

After. Nice and shiny!