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Ive done 6 smokes or so on the Walmart bullet so far. Only ribs of various flavors. Ive been dying to do a nice fat brisket but was afraid to on the ECB because of how much trouble I had keeping temperature. With this I know I wont have one bit of trouble, aside from picking what to cook and...

So my wife and her father teamed up to surprise me with a 18.5” WSM for Christmas. I had no idea. I’m not sure if the room was dusty but I might have shed a tear. I can’t wait to fire this up. It will blow my Walmart ECB out of the water.

I got excited and thought this was for the Royal Oak Lump charcoal.  Whats anyones thoughts on their lump vs briquettes?

Well that came out pretty good. As for cleaning up after this do you guys wash the racks or just leave it?

Definitely having issues that mods probably will help. Had great temp around 250 for about an hour. Shoveled a little more charcoal in because the pile looked small and now I can't get the temps back up over 200. I'm assuming I need to drill holes in the pan for air and to shake ash out.

Little cheapo from Walmart.

Oh. Hickory chips. I should have gotten chunks because when I did a test run the chips don't smoke for very long.

Wood? If by lump charcoal then yes. Unfortunately I didn't purchase a chimney yet.

I'm approaching zero hour for starting my first smoke. Any tips on how much charcoal to load? Is it better to load more at first so it runs longer or is having to put more on mid smoke ok?

Hello everyone, Name is Bryan.  Im from Burlington NJ.  Just found this site while looking up information on how to smoke.  Just got my first smoker, ECB style, from walmart the other day.  Long time griller just never tried smoking.  Ive fired it up twice now just to practice working it and to...