 Re: Smoke
I'm doing my curing fires now too. I noticed that when the fire is going good the smoke all goes out the chimney and as the fire gets hotter the smoke pretty much goes away (more complete combustion I guess). As the fire cools down the smoke comes back. Like yours, mine puts a little smoke out the door at first. I don't have my chimney installed yet so I'm not getting the benifit of a longer chimney. If you haven't installed your chimney yet and are exhausting out the vent you'll probably be happy when you have more draw. Like RT says you need to make sure you have wood that is dry. My other rule about fires is that in order to make a big fire, you have to first build a small fire.
Smelling like smoke is a good thing. Unless you're on fire too.
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