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douglasg

douglasg

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Mar 17, 2015
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Hello everyone. Just purchased a JB this past weekend and will be seasoning with a pound of bacon tomorrow morning and smoking some spares in the afternoon. A couple questions:

1. How are JB owners positioning the heat shields? The manual says that the JB only has one shield but mine came with both. Did a test with my dual probe Mavrick during the 400 degree burn. Left side was right at 400 but right side was consistently 50 higher. Did a second test tonight at 180 and moving the right shield about 1.5 inches from the center one and temps were 15 higher on right side. Thoughts?

2. This will be my first cook using a pellet grill. Thought I would start at 180 for 2 hours and then up to 250 after that. I usually do the 3-2-1 method but not sure how that correlates with pellet smoking.

Any help would be appreciate and I'll post some Q-vue tomorrow.
 
Congrats on the new toy, I have the DB model & really enjoy it a bunch ! The heat shields in my DB (there's 3) are optional though I usually have them in. I know on the DB if the heat shields are installed incorrectly or backwards it does some weird stuff with the temps !

I don't foil my ribs personally, but to each their own preference ! Post up some pics when ya can !
 
Thanks...we'll see how they turn out. I started at 180 for 2.5 hours, turned them then bumped it up to 275 and have been there for the last hour. Hoping they will be done around 6:30.
 
DouglasG said:
Thanks...we'll see how they turn out. I started at 180 for 2.5 hours, turned them then bumped it up to 275 and have been there for the last hour. Hoping they will be done around 6:30.
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Yeah, let me know.... I tossed on a slab o spares round 3:30 ! Have them at 240*... They are starting to smell good !
 
I have a JB and it took a few days to dial it in but this is how I have it setup.  I average a +/- 10 degree swing from left to right with the center being dead on.  

I have two angled deflectors and a flat one that goes directly over the fire pot.  I have one angled deflector on each side of the firepot with the lip of the angled deflector over the lip that stick up on the flat deflector, like so 

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After this I used foil to plug all of the holes on the angled deflectors.  Once all this was done, I just had to tweak the lid on the stack to do the smaller temp adjustments.
 
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