FL county tells resident:keep barbecue smoke in own yard

cbshoestring wrote:
Judging by the comments, the man was cooking at home, then selling in a neighborhood parking lot. I can see were I would NOT want a neighbor of mine commercially cooking on a daily basis. Should have went after him for a zoning violation (commercial business in residential neigborhood, etc....)not the B-B-Q smell.


§1107. Smoke.

A. The maximum amount of smoke emission permitted shall be determined by the use of the Standard Ringelmann Chart issued by the United States Bureau of Mines or most recent industry standard. No smoke of a shade darker than No. 2 shall be permitted.

Got to admit after watching the video THAT is a lot of smoke going on :B

They may think they are doing a good 'smoke job' but it isn't good for the meat. Now they could hire out for special effects to lay down smoke screen for an reenactment battle.


AS for that Ringelmann Chart.....
Very familiar with it and it's use. EPA Commercial Boiler Stack Opacity. Visual chart used to 'subjectively' read stack opacity and whether or not a fine is in order.
Inspectors show up after complaints, takes a visual read (eye-balls it) and references the official chart to determine YES/NO on fine

Having operated commercial boilers for 30 yrs. I have seen ALL of the shades.........Sent a huge BLACK cloud so dense and long in duration that fire departments got calls from Los Alamitos to Pico Rivera in California. Unit tripped while burning fuel oil....smoke so dark/black and heavy that it fell out of stack :B