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    This is my mountain to climb

    Thanks! Everybody had a great time. The t-shirts are from Fletcher's Barbecue in Brooklyn. My wife and I went there with the folks who hosted the barbecue a few weeks ago, before a music show. I said I wanted to buy one of the shirts. Lee, the husband of my partner in crime, said, "Let's wait...
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    "Ducting down" to grill from smokestack

    Not aluminum foil, exactly. One of those heavy-duty disposable aluminum pans. A picture earlier in this thread shows the "baffle" when I was trying to use the charcoal tray, drilled with holes, to distribute heat and smoke evenly through the cook chamber. It didn't work out too well. The tray...
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    This is my mountain to climb

    My iPhone was not cooperating, but my partner in crime took some photos.
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    This is my mountain to climb

    Sorry to just now reply to all the excellent advice and good wishes. The cook went off quite well. I lit the smokers at 6 a.m. Friday and took the last ribs off at 5:30 a.m. Saturday. There was a period there where I, um, lapsed into unconsciousness, in a chair beside the smokers. There were...
  10. This is my mountain to climb

    This is my mountain to climb

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    This is my mountain to climb

    Tomorrow, at the crack of dawn, I'll be firing up my brand-new Char-Broil 1280, along with two Weber kettle grills (set up as smokers) and a Brinkmann cabinet smoker, and putting the smoke to 103 pounds of meat. Six picnic shoulders and I don't know how many slabs of baby backs. Forty pounds or...
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    "Ducting down" to grill from smokestack

    Thanks! Here's what wound up working for me: I gave up on the re-purposed steel charcoal tray shown above. I used the same aluminum foil "baffle" shown above, and laid a couple of well-perforated heavy-duty foil cookie sheets atop one another on the fire box side. Left the away side completely...
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    "Ducting down" to grill from smokestack

      So here's what the finished product looks like. I cooked a picnic shoulder and a rack of baby backs Saturday night. I had trouble getting temp much past 160. I used two Weber charcoal baskets designed for offsetting the coals from the meat in a kettle grill. I kept piling on pre-lit coals...
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