To Be Clean or Not to Be?
 

Let’s start with Dirty Smoke.
Dirty Smoke is caused by fresh wood added to a fire that has not had a chance to fully light and may not be fully carbonized.  This can also happen with soaking your wood in water prior to burning it. I should also mention that this process happens with most charcoal, whether its briquettes or natural lump. Now I will admit that Dirty Smoke is smoking and grilling to me. I love the sight and smell of the rolling smoke when you fire up the grill or smoker. The neighbors are smelling it and everyone’s nose is in the air like dogs trying to sniff out some food. It’s all joy to watch the cloud of smoke roll out of a smoker into the sky.  As one of our teammates likes to say, “this is ambiance”. However, if not tamed and managed it will cause a creosote type covering on your food and render a bitter taste to your food if exposed for a long time.

Clean Smoke
Clean Smoke on the other hand is usually light blue and only slightly visible. You’re still getting all the benefits of cooking with a natural fuel source, such as charcoal or wood, you just aren’t getting all the dirty smoke. Clean Smoke comes from a fire that has already been lit and has had a chance to stabilize.  

One could say that clean smoke comes after the dirty smoke has burned off. Clean smoke is effective, but boring.

Of course when adding more fuel and/or stoking a clean, burning fire, you will get active smoke rising for a short while. This is not a bad thing. It just means that the fuel you added is going through the process of Dirty to Clean. 
 

Joffre Disabatino
Pitmaster
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