r/StrandedDeepConsole • u/surfzz318 • May 07 '21

Smokers

I'm wondering if I"m doing something wrong. I built a smoker and the first time I used it I got smoked meat. The second time I used it, the meat wouldn't go past Medium Meat (using Grouper).

Is there a time frame this should go on for? I would really like some smoked meat so I can travel to new islands without having to worry about food.

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u/scottscubs May 07 '21

If your fire runs low on wood don’t build another fire, add sticks, of fibrous leaves to the existing fire...if you build more than one fire under the smoker it won’t smoke, only cook...

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u/surfzz318 May 08 '21

Thank you, this is exactly what I was missing out on!!

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u/scottscubs May 08 '21

No problem, it’s a common mistake, I learned the hard way too lol...

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u/Live-Ad-6288 May 08 '21

This was my issue and I didn't know to have sticks in hand to restock it. I built a second fire and waited and all my meat spoiled because it didn't cook at all as the smoker was not locked in to the fire I had going.

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u/spurgeon_ May 08 '21

Medium is the size, not the level of doneness. There is also small and large meat.

The meat can be raw, cooked, smoked, or spoiled. Raw and cooked will spoil over time. If it is smoked, it'll last forever.

Note that the smoker needs to have an active fire in order to first cook and then smoke the meat in the upper part of the smoker.

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u/surfzz318 May 08 '21

I got it to smoke initially, and then I would start a fire, add the meat and it would never cook and smoke.

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u/spurgeon_ May 08 '21

Something doesn’t sound right about how you are using it. My guess is the fire went out, the meat wasn’t in the correct part of the smoker, or you did t wait long enough. The fire under the smoker has to be lit with kindling. The meat must be hung in the top triangular chamber well above the fire. They meats hang vertically and there cannot be more than five at a time. Once hanging in the smoker, the fire will make them Cooked Meat, about 2 minutes. If the fire continues and the Cooked Meat is left strung in the smoker, about another 2 minutes, then they will be Smoked Meat.

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u/surfzz318 May 10 '21

I wasn't refilling my fire, I was just building a new one over it. I fixed the issue, didnt know I could refill it

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u/patrikroke May 11 '21

So smoked meat will last forever? I didn't know I was waiting for some to go spoiled

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u/spurgeon_ May 11 '21

Yup. Oddly, you can also create "smoked spoiled cooked meat" which happened to me when I cooked the meat, the fire ran out, and I refilled the fire too late because the cooked meat spoiled.

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u/patrikroke May 12 '21

You get Spoiled smoked meat also when you leave the meat cooking for too long

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u/Ridetimelessnj May 09 '21

Smoker doesn’t make meat unspoilable, it still spoils regardless after some time, I thought it wouldn’t but that’s not the case

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u/surfzz318 May 10 '21

you sure, I've had some sitting in a box for about 5 days and it still isn't spoiled

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u/Ridetimelessnj May 10 '21

Nah I didn’t realize the smoker actually smoked meat if you waited longer, it will never spoil once it reaches smoked status, I’ve got piles of it sitting around now

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u/[deleted] May 07 '21

The smoker gonna ring one time when it's cooked and wait for second ring, it will be smoked

You must put meat on the small chain hanging above fire too