Smoker

Cooking Temperatures

• Low Smoke: 160º with lots of smoke
• High Smoke: 220º with lots of smoke
• 175–450º: 5º increments
• >350°: smoke settings are unavailable
• High: 500° with less smoke

Camp Chef Instructions

• Adding pellets (only if auger is empty of pellets)
  1. Using FEED setting, open clean out port and wait until pellets drop into ash cup, close clean out port
  2. Do not over feed pellets into burner!
• Startup Mode
  1. Add pellets to the hopper (about 1–3 lbs/hr)
  2. Hang grease drip bucket with foil liner under drain port on right side of grill
  3. Line grease tray with foil
     • Two sheets can be folded over on one end to create a one-piece sheet
       • Make sure the foil’s seam is laid flap-side down so the drips will not get into the seam
     • Do not block grease’s ability to flow off tray and into trough.
     • Do not block airflow to the temperature sensor on left side of grill
  4. Do not use the meat probe for temperatures exceeding 350º
  5. Always route meat probe through port on side of grill, pulling as much wire as possible to outside of grill
  6. Do not let meat probe wire lie in direct heat zones (front and back)
  7. Select a temperature and smoke setting, press START (startup cycle takes ~8 minutes)
• While cooking
  1. Check pellet hopper level every two hours
  2. Don’t open the lid! “If you’re lookin’, it ain’t cookin’.”
• Bypass Mode
  1. Only use if the grill is still hot after a power failure, grill is accidentally turned off, or anytime it needs to be restarted.
• Shutdown
  1. When done cooking, press SHUTDOWN
  2. Fan will run for another 10 minutes to finish burning any pellets and cool the grill down
  3. Display and auger will turn off automatically
  4. Then it can be powered off using the power switch
  5. The grill must be powered off then on before it can be used again
• After each use
  1. Unplug grill after shutdown is complete (display is off)
  2. Return as many pellets as possible from the hopper back into the bucket
  3. Wash grill grates with soapy water and thoroughly dry them
  4. Carefully discard foil lining from grease pan
  5. Wipe clean grease pan, grease trough, and grease drain tube with paper towels
  6. Do not allow grease to build up on grease tray or in grease trough
  7. Scrape grease out of foil cup into garbage with a silicone spatula
  8. Place grease bucket and foil cup into the pellet hopper
  9. Pull burner clean out port knob to drop ash into the ash cup
  10. Wipe ash inside grill to the ash cup using a clean paper towel
  11. Close and lock burner clean out port
  12. Empty and reinstall ash cup
  13. Place weather cover over the grill and secure
• After every 50 hours of use
  1. Remove grill grates, grease tray, and heat deflector and clean inside of grill
  2. Use warm soapy water on all painted surfaces
  3. Use a wire brush to clean screen area of chimney outlet on inside of grill