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  1. smoking reef

    Finally figured out my char griller

    My chargriller side box smoker for 4 months now has pissed me off because of low temp. Couldn't break 230 degrees at the rack to save my life but changed the lid thermometer 4 times and was in the 350 range on the top. Long story short I sent my 10yr old in the rain(I know I'm am ass) to put...
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    Newbie temp questions.

    Tinkering and rigging is my specialty haha but I also live with if it sing broke don't fix it. I just see all these guys with horizontal side box grills going strictly off their lid thermometers and cooking 250 on the nose and getting good food out of it. 250 my grate is only 190ish so it takes...
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    Newbie temp questions.

    Well with that being said do I need to get the temp I want at the rack or on the gauge on the lid? Or those of you familiar with this style grill should I do all the upgrades that are out there for my grill and see what happens. I know these are common sense questions really but I'm not a 100%...
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    Newbie temp questions.

    So I have a char broil pro side box smoker with a POS thermometer I just replaced with a nice one I tested on boiling water and seemed to be spot on. My question is with the thermometer being halfway up the half barrel lid I'm getting readings of 280 while at the rack is 220. Is that right...
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    Impressing neighbors with whole chickens

    That's what I was looking for. I've seen the whole spatchcock thing before never tried it. But now I'm on to new issues I shouldn't have been blind to before. I was dumb enough to go off of factory char broil therm and went to light it an hour ago it was sitting at 180 in the shade and said...
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    Impressing neighbors with whole chickens

    I don't see much talk about injecting on here is that not all it's cracked up to be? I have friends that do bbq cook offs and they don't inject much either but looking for other opinions.
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    Impressing neighbors with whole chickens

    I've liked my smoked chickens other than I haven't mastered getting the skin edible. Always like a rubber glove on the outside and that's my favorite part of chicken. The last time I did one I pulled it out the cooking chamber and put it in the side smoke box right over hot coals for 20 minutes...
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    Impressing neighbors with whole chickens

    Damn no one want to share secret recipe haha
  9. smoking reef

    Impressing neighbors with whole chickens

    I've got a couple neighbors coming over tomorrow for a cookout and I'm doing 4 whole chickens and a couple racks of ribs. I'm fairly confident in my ribs but can't seem to get the wow factor out of a whole beer cab chicken. Any secrets out there, nine don't brine, skin on skin off, seasonings on...
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    How much smoke?

    Thanks that sounds about right. I can't leave it for any more than an hour without something going on temp wise. And for the record I don't know what TBS is.
  11. smoking reef

    How much smoke?

    That makes much mo better sense thanks
  12. smoking reef

    New to site and smoking

    Thanks and hope your smoker is tied down.
  13. smoking reef

    How much smoke?

    No basket just the factory rack that holds charcoal about an inch or 2 off the bottom of the slide out pan. So should I keep a flame or no flame? I always work to keep the flame out to make it smoke/smolder cuz if I allow it to flame up the temp goes through the roof
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    How much smoke?

    I appreciate it a lot. Usually the only time I don't have actual thick smoke rolling is when all the wood is black and crumbling and my heat starts dropping then I throw more wood on and starts smoking again. Wood usually last maybe 45 minutes and I loose smoke and heat. I smoke with the intake...
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    How much smoke?

    I have a char broil professional or some crap side box. It was a father's day gift and I figured I might as well learn to use it. Mine smokes heavily white slight grayish smoke the whole time usually. I start a fire with lump charcoal then use roughly 1"x2"rectangle by 12" long hickory wood from...
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