Well, I had a nice rack of spares rubbed and sitting in the garage fridge ready to be smoked yesterday. Well, as luck would have it, something came up and I wasn't going to have 6 hours to smoke them in the smoker... but I was dead set on ribs for dinner... so I decided to go with the Weber and indirect cooking/smoking. I can usually turn out a very respectable rib in the Weber in about 3 1/2 hours....That wasn't the experimental part of this cook....
I've been wanting to try out my AMNPS in the Weber for a while for this type cooking but hadn't gotten to is.. well here was the opportunity....
So I filled up a little more than 1 row in the AMNPS with a mix of 75% Hickory and 25% Oak... lit it off and let it burn for a good 10 minutes... the lump coals were ready by the time the AMNPS was ready to go. Bottom and top vents on the Weber were wide open....So everything in the kettle and we're off....
Here's the set up. You can't see the smoke from the AMNPS in this shot but it was definitely putting out smoke.
Well this is where the experiment encountered the 'not so good' results... after having the lid on the Weber for about 15 minutes I noticed there was no TBS rolling from the top vent....pulled the lid and the AMNPS was completely snuffed....lit it again with a plumbers torch and gave it a good 10 minutes of more burn time....on went the lid... after about 10 minutes... same results....I have come to the conclusion that I love the AMNPS for cold smoking but after 3 attempts to use it for hot smoking with anything but an electric, it appears to get oxygen depleted. I've had this result with my gasser and now with charcoal in the Weber. I truly thought that if there was enough oxygen to keep the charcoal burning there would be enough to keep the AMNPS going as well in this set up... but wasn't the case. I haven't given up on the AMNPS by any means and the engineer in me already has a couple ideas how to make the AMNPS work better in my gasser...I was really hoping the AMNPS was going to work in the Weber like the above set up, especially since I love to use the rotisserie on the Weber and the AMNPS would be perfect for a spit/smoke... oh well.. back to the drawing board.
As for the rest of the story (this is the 'good' part of the experiment)
Reverted back to soaked hickory chunks and kept on going... adapt, improvise, overcome!
Finally some nice steady TBS rolling
Ribs are done after 3 1/2 hours... nice pull back and I was happy with the bark.
(although there's foil in the shot, I don't foil my ribs)
Tossed on a few chicken thighs as well....
Ready to plate up
Money shot....
This is kind of a personal thing, but one of the ways I judge my own ribs - other than taste obviously - is with final bone pull.
This is exactly what I like....the ribs weren't truly fall from the bone but there wasn't any major tug in them either...
Thanks for taking the time to take a look....
-Salt
I've been wanting to try out my AMNPS in the Weber for a while for this type cooking but hadn't gotten to is.. well here was the opportunity....
So I filled up a little more than 1 row in the AMNPS with a mix of 75% Hickory and 25% Oak... lit it off and let it burn for a good 10 minutes... the lump coals were ready by the time the AMNPS was ready to go. Bottom and top vents on the Weber were wide open....So everything in the kettle and we're off....
Here's the set up. You can't see the smoke from the AMNPS in this shot but it was definitely putting out smoke.
Well this is where the experiment encountered the 'not so good' results... after having the lid on the Weber for about 15 minutes I noticed there was no TBS rolling from the top vent....pulled the lid and the AMNPS was completely snuffed....lit it again with a plumbers torch and gave it a good 10 minutes of more burn time....on went the lid... after about 10 minutes... same results....I have come to the conclusion that I love the AMNPS for cold smoking but after 3 attempts to use it for hot smoking with anything but an electric, it appears to get oxygen depleted. I've had this result with my gasser and now with charcoal in the Weber. I truly thought that if there was enough oxygen to keep the charcoal burning there would be enough to keep the AMNPS going as well in this set up... but wasn't the case. I haven't given up on the AMNPS by any means and the engineer in me already has a couple ideas how to make the AMNPS work better in my gasser...I was really hoping the AMNPS was going to work in the Weber like the above set up, especially since I love to use the rotisserie on the Weber and the AMNPS would be perfect for a spit/smoke... oh well.. back to the drawing board.
As for the rest of the story (this is the 'good' part of the experiment)
Reverted back to soaked hickory chunks and kept on going... adapt, improvise, overcome!
Finally some nice steady TBS rolling
Ribs are done after 3 1/2 hours... nice pull back and I was happy with the bark.
(although there's foil in the shot, I don't foil my ribs)
Tossed on a few chicken thighs as well....
Ready to plate up
Money shot....
This is kind of a personal thing, but one of the ways I judge my own ribs - other than taste obviously - is with final bone pull.
This is exactly what I like....the ribs weren't truly fall from the bone but there wasn't any major tug in them either...
Thanks for taking the time to take a look....
-Salt
