The Smoker Fuel Budget

Fuel loaded for the long end of your cook, a burn rate you weigh yourself, charcoal, pellets and wood in whole bags, and the price of a cook and a season

SmokerGear's Fuel Burn Time Calculator and Wood Chunk Calculator both ask for one number of hours, and a long cook does not end at an hour: it ends when a thermometer says so. Type the hours you hope for and the load fits the hope. In the worked example, 10 hours of briquettes at a 250 pit loads 8.0 lb, which the calculator itself says lasts 12 hours, while the cook could run to 14. The Smoker Fuel Budget loads for the long end of your own window (11.2 lb in the example), has you weigh one cook to find your smoker's real burn rate (87.6% of the average in the example, so 9.9 lb and two cooks from a 20 lb bag instead of one), counts how many cooks a bag of wood covers, prices a cook by what it burns ($12.31, not the $30 of bags opened), budgets a season in whole bags, and divides any new smoker's price by the fuel it could save: an $800 upgrade would need to cut the example's fuel by 244% to pay back in 5 years. Every figure is computed by code from the site's own calculators and every price is an example. It names no smoker or brand and gives no cooking times or meat temperatures: a food thermometer and the USDA minimums decide when meat is done. Included: 7 steps, 4 printable working pages, a burn-rate and wood table, a quickstart, and a personalised sheet worked from the numbers you enter in the calculators.

What’s inside

The full contents of The Smoker Fuel Budget: one cook, the money, and the working pages

Step 1, The Long-End Rule: the fuel burn calculator's load for both ends of a worked cook window

The Long-End Rule: the fuel load for the longest your cook might run, and what the short-end load really lasts
The Scale Rule: one weigh-in turns the calculator's average burn rate into your smoker's own
The Chunk Count Rule: wood chunks for the long end, and how many cooks one bag covers
The Whole Bag Rule: bags for a load, and the reserve that carries into the next cook
The Burned-Not-Bought Rule: the price of a cook from the pounds it burns, not the bags it opens
The Season Rule: a season of long cooks in whole bags of fuel and wood
The Payback Rule: lump, briquettes and pellets priced per cook, and the years any new smoker needs to pay back in fuel
Working pages: a cook fuel sheet, a weigh-in log, a season bag plan, and a switch and payback sheet
Bonus: burn rates, loads and briquettes by fuel and pit, and wood chunks by smoker, from the site's calculators
A quickstart that closes the before-and-after score loop, plus a personalised sheet from your own calculator inputs

Plus a second PDF, worked out for you

Run one of the free calculators first and buy from that page, and this sheet is computed from your own figures. Buy from here and the pack still arrives complete — the sheet simply has no numbers of yours to work from yet.

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