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    Noob-need some opinion/where did I go wrong?

    Hey yeah, I'm keeping notes :) The white billowing smoke was pretty nuts. It pretty much went on for two hours, even at 260. At the time since it went on so long it just seemed normal....the taste afterwards told me otherwise lol. I think my next round I'll maybe take the wood out of the...
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    Noob-need some opinion/where did I go wrong?

    Thanks for all the replies! I did another smoke yesterday (same recipe as last week) with some mixed results. I switched out the 3 gallons of water for 1 gallon of sand. This let my temps come up and settled more or less around 260 with the same bottom vent settings as with the previous water...
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    Noob-need some opinion/where did I go wrong?

    Thanks for the reply JC. I understand. With the vents in the same position as yesterday, with less water, my temps will go up. But at the same time, with vent position the same, burn time will be the same as yesterday. So my goal should be to get the bottom vents closed more, which will...
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    Noob-need some opinion/where did I go wrong?

    But I gotta say. Best chicken I ever had. Never had one so moist in my life :) :) ! Matt
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    Noob-need some opinion/where did I go wrong?

    Hi Everyone It was my first time smoking yesterday, on my Napoleon Apollo 19". So this is how it went. I filled my charcoal basket up to the top and made it level, then removed 20 birquettes from the center and lit them to ash on my chimney. I added them back to the middle of the basket...
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