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    How do i use finishing sauce?

    i have smoked a few butts over the last year i have started smoking, and just now made a finishing sauce.  The finishing sauce i used is apple cider vinegar, a little brown sugar, some water, ketchup, pepper, red pepper flakes.  Simple right?   When do i put the sauce on it?  When i pull it and...
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    Vertical smoking and cross meat contamination

    Thanks JJ.  This is the best gd forum on the internet.  With this post, i had a logical theory that that was the case.  Further, i had a difficult time searching this topic in the forum, so i wanted to verify my theory as correct and perhaps ask that this be sticky'd somewhere for new smokers...
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    Vertical smoking and cross meat contamination

    All very helpful.  So how about this...I cook pork butts and spatchcock chicken.  Chicken cooks 2 hours about and butts about 12.  I put them on at the same time so i can eat chicken for lunch and pork for dinner.  Both are raw at the start, so for 2 hours the pork drips on the chicken.  at what...
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    Vertical smoking and cross meat contamination

    Kind of eliminates the possibility of putting something on the lower rack if you have a pan there.  
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    Vertical smoking and cross meat contamination

    I have searched and couldn't find a good thread for this question.  I have a WSM with two racks and wonder if there is a fear of cross contamination from one meat dripping on the one below it.  For instance, my first smoke was a rack of spare ribs and two spatchcock chickens.  I used the 3 2 1...
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    WSM FAIL! Help...I guess

    UPDATE:  Wrapped in foil after the 5 hour lag, and it immediately climbed to 204.  Pulled it, put them in a cooler, and took them to the lake.  I pulled them when i got there, let them cool a bit, and packed them in ziplocks after squeezing all the air out.  Refrigerated over night and crocked...
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    WSM FAIL! Help...I guess

    Exactly. I've read about lags but not 5 hour lags on an 8 lb picnic. Haven't checked the 9 lb butt
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    WSM FAIL! Help...I guess

    Stuck at 189 for 4 hours now. Here comes beer number 1
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    WSM FAIL! Help...I guess

    I did not. No wind. 75 degrees out side. Just a lull I guess. Dropped to like 210. Panic might not have been the best reaction. I should have been sleeping anyway. Just a bone head move. Now with a clear head I should tell you a little more about the water pan. I did a smoke about 2 weeks...
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    WSM FAIL! Help...I guess

    Saw the washer mod last night. Good idea prankster.
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    WSM FAIL! Help...I guess

    Got two pork butts rubbed and on the top rack of my wsm. Temp started dropping after four hours and I thought coals might have gotten choked so I gave the base a gentle kick and splash. The top grate slipped and both butts went into the water pan. The pan wasn't exactly spotless from the...
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    New smoker in Fort Wayne, IN

    Sure does.  thanks
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    New smoker in Fort Wayne, IN

    How do you get it under the skin? Let it sit? Also had a sale on ribs bought a pork sparerib. I know how to cut it but I'm trying to time it right with the bird. If it's 6 hours with the ribs and roughly 1 hour with the bird. Should I throw the bird on with the ribs for the last hour of the...
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    New smoker in Fort Wayne, IN

    Just bought a used WSM 18.5 inch for 220.  Its about a year old and have heard good things about it.  I have been grilling for years kind of by feel and not by temp.  I have made some killer chicken breast and steaks over the years. and want to branch into smoking.  I have also been brewing beer...
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