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  1. bbqwillie

    Kingsford Briquettes vs. Royal Oak Ridge Briquettes: Burn Temperature, Time, and Ash Comparison

    Very nice review. Thanks.
  2. bbqwillie

    aluminum ok for a smoker?

    Aluminum should hold up to the heat generated in a typical smoker. Only down side I see is that aluminum doesn't hold heat very well. After all we do use aluminum for heat sinks in our electronics when we want to dissipate heat. Keeping the cooker hot in cold weather would be a challenge.
  3. bbqwillie

    Wood Magazine plans for propane smoker cabinet

    Thanks for the heads up! I've been wanting to build something like this. I'll check it out.
  4. bbqwillie

    Lilac or roses?

     I use lilac all the time on fish and chicken. It has a rather delicate flavor to it. I also use blackberry bramble from the yard. Adds a really interesting taste to pork.
  5. bbqwillie

    Wood in Las Vegas?

    I don't live there but based on where you are and the price and how I know wood is sold, I would say 5 to 7 logs about 18" long by 4" in diameter. It probably comes blister wrapped with a nylon carry loop stapled on.
  6. bbqwillie

    Mediterranean Smoking Wood--My Exotic Woods

    WOW! I would love to have some Fig and Bay Leaf wood to play around with. The Olive sounds nice too! You're very lucky to have native woods like that to use for smoking. I envy you. I wonder what a Fig or Olive smoked brisket would taste like...
  7. bbqwillie

    Lifespan of a Masterbuilt Smoker

    Dalber, I have the exact same model that you will have soon and I just finished the 4th season of Winter cooking with it and it shows no signs of giving up the ghost. Mine sits on an enclosed back porch but it is not climate controlled, so it sees the temperature swings year round.
  8. bbqwillie

    If you could own any smoker under $2,000???

    For that money a Backwoods Party w/ diverter, 2" insulation, castors  and adapter door for my DigiQ DX2. (And I can hear my wife right now..."OH GREAT another monument in the shrine of the Holy BBQ"
  9. bbqwillie

    MES40 Temp Inaccuracy Making Me Crazy

    How many pounds of food did you put in the smoker? Did you preheat to temp and then load cold meat into the cooker? Is the Maverick ambient probe close to any cold meat?
  10. bbqwillie

    MES40 Temp Inaccuracy Making Me Crazy

    The MES temp probes are notoriously inaccurate. Believe your Maverick. You did test the Maverick probes with the boiling water test, didn't you?
  11. bbqwillie

    Masterbuilt 30" PID controller for $30.00 !! OH YA H!!

    I definitely agree with this.
  12. bbqwillie

    Masterbuilt 30" PID controller for $30.00 !! OH YA H!!

     And the A-MAZE-N, I bet.
  13. bbqwillie

    Backwoods water pan help

    Fell free to PM if you need to. As you can probably tell I don't get here that much (work and life get in the way) so be patient with respect to the time it takes me to respond. I will get back to you.
  14. bbqwillie

    Backwoods water pan help

     That's a hell of a deal for $850. The stainless steel doors, heat deflector, casters and cover are all extras. It's hard to tell from the picture but it may also have the commercial grade fire basket. I'd have to see it up close to tell. At any rate you got a great smoker for a very good price...
  15. bbqwillie

    3-2-1

    Wife likes FOB, foil for 2.5 hours like JJ does. Me I like bite through, so two racks are the order of the day, about 6 hours. Everyone happy at the end of the day.
  16. bbqwillie

    Backwoods water pan help

    One other thing I forgot to mention. In your picture you have the water pan sitting on a grate. That's wrong. The pan sits in the hole below that sixth grate and the grate goes over the top of the water pan. That pan seals off the FB from the CC. If your cooking with the water pan sitting on the...
  17. bbqwillie

    Backwoods water pan help

    If you fill the pan and the cook is of length (more than 4 hours) the water will boil in the pan and a lot of it will escape as steam through the exhaust with some rising into the CC. The pan will be about half  to a quarter full ( maybe less on a long cook) when the cook is done. It's not bad...
  18. bbqwillie

    Question about wood

    That's actually a pretty good price in places where hardwood is hard to come by.
  19. bbqwillie

    Backwoods water pan help

    For starters, the Backwoods smoker is a reverse flow cooker. The top racks will always be hotter than the lower racks, that's why your burning your food on the top rack (that and the fact that you are only filling the water pan to a half). All the heat is coming into the CC from a slot near the...
  20. bbqwillie

    Step away from the pit! BBQ Shrimp, Cajun Style

    Boy I miss the food down there. Every so often I get crawfish withdrawals.... Those shrimp look Delicious!
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