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Showerthought: Saw a pitmaster in Franklin using a hair dryer on his fire
I was down in Tennessee last fall and watched a guy at a well-known spot use a cheap hair dryer to stoke his coals before putting on a brisket. He said it gives a more even start than bellows or just waiting... but I've never seen that trick before. Is that a common practice for managing airflow, or just a one-off hack?
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sam_rivera1mo ago
My uncle in Lockhart swears by a hair dryer for his offset smoker. He says it gets the coals to that perfect gray ash faster than anything else. I tried it last summer and it really does cut down the wait time before you put the meat on. It feels like a weird trick but it just works.
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