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    Cook for the weekend

    Yeah it was good thanks, didn't manage to achieve the pull from the pork I wanted annoyingly, despite starting at 6am and finishing at 5pm. It was a big chunk of meat though (boston butt) at just under 4kg
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    Cook for the weekend

    What with fathers day coming up this weekend I have been tasked with the cooking, I am going to do a pulled pork and a whole chicken (home made pesto inserted under the skin, and smothered on top with a salt and herb rub). As the pork will take 9hrs or so (?) I was going to get it smoking with...
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    Popped in to say Hi

    Unfortunately not no, we have a baby imminently due in the next few weeks and what with also having a four year old I think we'll have our hands full :p
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    How much water in the waterpan?

    As title really, I smoked a leg of lamb a few weeks ago using cheap charcoal from Asda, I used the whole 5kg bag and lit it using the minion method. I had about 2.5 litres of boiled water in the water pan. Even with the vents open fully the entire time I could not get the temp to go above 200F...
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    Popped in to say Hi

    Yeah I've bought myself 8 4kgs bags of that stuff, yet to try it though. Annoyingly I've only just seen Danny's offer code at WOW BBQ for 27% off. I could have bought 10 bags (7kg bags) for £87. Oh well!
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    Popped in to say Hi

    Thanks to Danny for the invitation. I'm Paul, I live in Bristol, I'm relatively new to smoking, the smoker I have is the ProQ Excel vertical charcoal smoker. Whilst I'm here I may as well ask a question, which charcoal do you guys use and where do you get it from?
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    How much charcoal?

    Yeah it's good, still getting used to it. I've only tried the grill part once but I either didn't put in enough charcoal or the the charcoal I had was cheap as it didn't stay hot for very long at all. Live and learn. I will probably use it as a grill a bit more this year, sometimes it's nice...
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    How much charcoal?

    Brilliant thank you very much, I take it the "minion method" is best used for long cooks? How did you light the coals, chimney starter?
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    Hello from the UK

    Hi Guys, My name is Paul and last summer I bought my ProQ Excel smoker, I'm still quite new to it but hopefully this year I'll make some proper use of it :) Paul
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    How much charcoal?

    Hi Folks, I have a ProQ Excel, similar in style/size to the WSM. The charcoal basket is quite large and obviously for long cooks of 7 hours or so I fill it right up. But should it always be filled? What if I'm only doing 3 hrs for a whole chicken for example? If I only fill it part way will it...
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