WARNING TO THOSE THAT SMOKE MEAT

[SuperiorDG]

For those of you that like to smoke meat here is a little lesson I learned over weekend. What happened: while smoking some ribs this weekend I noticed that my smoke was cooling down. I opened the bottom up to notice that the burner was out. So I hit the igniter thingy and BOOM.

I guess the smoker had filled with propane and I set the whole thing off. The doors flew open shooting flames up my right side, legs, arm and beard and half my hair on my head were sizzled. My right ear got 1st degree burns. Had to run the trimmer through my beard to even it out and get as much of the crispy hair as I could, and the same with my head. Hair on my arm and legs are gone. I put burn cream on my ear and have had to sleep on the left side of my head for the last few nights. So if any of you have your smoker go out make sure you vent all the gas out before re-lighting it.

Edit: and no, I did not take pictures