Recent content by bscruggs99

Yeah I don't mind the fluctuations too bad, I just thought they would be much bigger without the water. I had it where the temp varied between 210 and around 260 and I was OK with that. I was just expecting a much bigger difference without the water to soak up the heat.

Also how many chips should I be using initially? When preheating, I put maybe 5 or 6 chips of varying size just to get them started. I didn't soak them at all.

Thanks guys, I'll give it another shot without out the water. I was just worried the temperature swings would be huge without any thermal mass in there.

Hi guys. I'm pretty sure this is covered somewhere here and I'll be going back to the search tool right after this but here is my dilemma. My wife got me the smoker as a gift and I tried smoking some ribs over the weekend(321 method), and the only time it would get smoking was when if was way...