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Well after some tuning and patience (probably my biggest issue) I am currently holding 300 degrees with a beautiful blue smoke coming out of the stack. I basically built a big fire and let it cook down into a nice coal bed and went from there. I actually had to gate my stack a little bit because...

I use royal oak

I leave everything wide open, like I said times I struggle to even get to temp. That may be my issue, not enough of a coal bed or fire going before I start

I am considering a coal basket as well, do you guys think this will help or hurt this?

Well when I got it, it was prob about 50 degrees and I smoked yesterday it was about 30 degrees. I think I may not be getting a good enough coal bed down. I have used a fan and it helped, but I also felt like it burned much hotter and faster. I’m not opposed to the fan but if I could, I’d like...

So I have been leaving stack open and the door wide open to get good flow. I even tried to leave door open about an inch( that seemed to yield the best result)

So I a new to the world of offset smoking. I have an OK joe highland offset smoker and I am struggling with fire management. I can’t seem to get it to pull a good draft over the coal bed. Iv tried with the grate , without the grate; only lump charcoal, only wood; fire near the door fire away...