06-09-2005, 02:20 PM
I also have a little chief and use it as often as I can. I was having problems with it in cold or windy weather, it would take hours longer to dry the jerky or fish that I was smoking. I found that if I placed a cardboard box over the smoker, it retained its heat and would dry the morsels inside much quicker. I have noticed in Cabela's magazine that they now sell an insulating blanket of some type for the little chief. But why pay the $20 for a blanket when you can use something else? It works well. Jerky that was taking upwards of 12 to 16 hours to finish in the smoker, now only takes about 9 hours. Just a suggestion.
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