Coating on top of smoker melts?

[kbatx]

Recently bought the four rack black Bradley Smoker. We've used it four times total and smoked a turkey for Thanksgiving. We smoked the turkey
at 200 for four hours. When I went out to check on the smoker the black smoker coating under the top vent was melted and sticky. Also we did
have the vent open during smoking/cooking.

Has anyone else experienced this issue (see pic below)?

[GusRobin]

call bradley

[watchdog56]

Yep give Bradley a call.

[Saber 4]

Never seen that before so I agree with the others call Bradley

[KyNola]

I have never heard of nor seen anything like that before.  It almost looks like there was a clear plastic protective film that was not removed prior to shipping.

[pensrock]

I agree, I always thought it was a powder coating which should never bubble from the low temps we use the Bradley's for. It would be nice to find out what it is.  :-\

[beefmann]

contact bradley,,,you may also want to send them a  picture to aid in description so they  can figure  out what  happined

[Tenpoint5]

I am going to guess that if that is the setting you had for smoking the turkey at 200 degrees. The moisture and steam did that while trying to escape out under the vent. Just guessing

[Tiny Tim]

That's what it looked like to me too...the smokey moisture goo that will glue the moveable portion to the cabinet.

[cathouse willy]

When the smoker has cooled remove the vent cover and wipe off the gunk.Does the powder coating come off leaving behind bare metal?. If so that unit got very hot, much hotter than designed for and you have a serious problem. I'm betting its just built up cooking gunk.

[cajunboudreaux]

I had this happen to me, it was because i didn't have my vent open enough ( I thought I did). Since then I have removed the vent entirely. It will do this if the steam and smoke gets backed up. Also look at the hole where your burner plate fits in. It should have happened there as well.