This is an old myth that\u2019s been kicking around the BBQ and cooking community for decades. It\u2019s bad advice. <\/strong>Leave your meat in the refrigerator until it\u2019s ready to hit the grill. Once the grill is ready, take the meat out and smoke it.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThen, cook it as usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I should warn you that your meat – especially larger cuts – is going to a bit longer to smoke. Plan accordingly. But cold meat attracts more smoke flavor than warm meat. Keep your meats cold until they are ready to smoke.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nWrapping It Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
If your Pit Boss isn’t smoking, there is no need to fret! This is a fairly common issue with lots of causes behind it. Most likely, your pellet grill is functioning normally – it\u2019s just producing thin whisps of smoke (which is perfect)!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nI\u2019ve dropped the top reasons here, so now you also know what the main solutions are. So, go ahead and get that grill fixed and get grilling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If your Pit Boss is not producing smoke, you can try using fresh and high-quality wood pellets, smoking at a lower temp, or cleaning out your auger and firepot. It\u2019s also possible your cooker is producing thin, barely visible smoke, which is exactly what you want. As a young Pit Boss owner, I had a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19438,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/19438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}