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  1. cookie714

    First Pork Butt and Pulling My Hair Out

    Thank you for showing me these pictures.  I did as you said and put the foil packets right over the heat, but no smoke--ever.  I'll try it right on the grate next time. I didn't know you could do that.   Yes, the oven thermometer seems to be the one that is correct and successfully used it for...
  2. cookie714

    First Pork Butt and Pulling My Hair Out

    I finally figured out the temperature thing and got some pork finished in 7 hours registering 180 degrees.  I would have left it in a while longer but it was going to rain.  I can't figure out how to get smoke.  I put the hickory packets in foil and lay them on the grill, but at 220 degrees they...
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    First Pork Butt and Pulling My Hair Out

    What kinds of tests should I do to produce smoke?
  4. cookie714

    First Pork Butt and Pulling My Hair Out

    Is this pellet smoker something that hooks to a grill?
  5. cookie714

    First Pork Butt and Pulling My Hair Out

    Thanks everybody.  I really appreciate all your helpful comments.   Now:    Round two (beginner's smoked pork butt). As advised, I put the DRY hickory chips in the foil packet and put three slits in the top of it. Never once in the 7 hours that this pork has been on the grill did I see any...
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    First Pork Butt and Pulling My Hair Out

    I'm not sure I'm doing this right....it's not very intuitive where you post your questions (do you start a new thread?)  Anyway, I read you're supposed to keep putting dry chips in the smoker and replenishing them as they burn up, but aren't you then opening and closing the smoker a lot and...
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    First Pork Butt and Pulling My Hair Out

    Thanks everyone!  The pork is in the trash but I'm not giving up.  
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    First Pork Butt and Pulling My Hair Out

    Hello, everyone!  I'm here (first) in desperation and second, to learn a lot more than I do about smoking on my grill.   I live in eastern Tennessee.  Cooking on a new NexGen Infrared grill.  So, the grill is new to me and so is the aspect of smoking on it. I'm a first-timer.  I've been reading...
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