Next weekend will be my first attempt at smoking a brisket and a pork butt. I am expecting 14-16 hours.
How do you go about adding new charcoal to the WSM smoker without getting a bunch of ash to dislodge and float around the smoker eventually covering the meat? When smoking one of my first racks of ribs, I mistakenly "stirred" the coals to try and generate a little more heat at the end of the process as I was applying BBQ sauce. The ash was evident on the ribs.
So, do you remove the meat, re-stoke the coals and the put the meat back on or is there some other method. Thanks for the insight.
How do you go about adding new charcoal to the WSM smoker without getting a bunch of ash to dislodge and float around the smoker eventually covering the meat? When smoking one of my first racks of ribs, I mistakenly "stirred" the coals to try and generate a little more heat at the end of the process as I was applying BBQ sauce. The ash was evident on the ribs.
So, do you remove the meat, re-stoke the coals and the put the meat back on or is there some other method. Thanks for the insight.