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Rodriguez,
What do you think is the best to fill your pan with and why?
Didn't mean toput you on the spot, just know you have some knowledge after the weeks I have spent on here reading
Hi WHB we meet again....
I am new to the wsm but everything I have read says that yes the water is totally for temp control. Some use nothing except tin foil( hotter smokes like chicken and turkey) and some use terra cotta pots, play sand or even bricks wrapped in tin foil to fill the water...
Rodriguez my man.....
I have seen a few of your posts on the wsm. I am probably going to grab a welding blanket as I live in Canada...enough said!
Question on the 2 closed 1 open on the bottem vents....do you find the charcoal doesn't burn evenly if you only have the one side exposed to...
Hi all- I just got my 18" wsm last week. I have done 4 smokes on it so far(2 practice
/break ins and 2 food smokes). I am also have a bit of difficulty dialling in a good solid temp for a steady amount of time.
Rodriguez- I have done the minion method twice like to have described it. Do you...
I finally went to bed about 4 hours into it. It was holding 230f when I last looked at it. I looked again at 7am and it was sitting at 225f. That made me pretty happy this morning! I think I got about 9 hours at 225-250f with a full pan of lump and using the minion method. Had boiling water in...
If your still around I got a question for ya. ..
If I am only opening one vent out of three on the bottom won't the charcoals tend to burn in the direction of the open vent leaving unburnt charcoal on all the other sides.
Just trying to figure out how some of the guys on here say they'll...
I'll take the blame for ruining the thread. I have did some very minor adjustments to the one vent and I am hanging around 230f
I am from Ontario Canada. Southern Ontario that is. You ?
Oh yeah you have been a help. Your replying to my virgin posts.!!
I think I got it going now.....I am just hoping a can keep 225 ish over night. I guess we will see
It's not billowing smoke like it was when first started the minion just the nice thin blue smoke.
I just need to get hang of...
Just went out and checked it again. Sitting at 228f so it is dropping a bit. The smoke looks like the good thin blue smoke now. Maybe it is just once the charcoal gets going it smokes until then?
The guys wife broke her ankle.? Crazy
Thanks for the reply. I have see that one as well. Seems that guy was jockeying all vents. I read to just go with one...
I have been keeping 233f for the last hour and a half with the minion. And lump. I put some bacon in just to get some meat cookings...
Hi WHB!
It is minus 8 c here. I have one vent open at maybe 10% and the rest are closed. I did put almost boiling hot water in the pan due to the cold temps outside. Not much wind though.
I have a wood stove in my house and lots of camp fires outside. I notice the same things happens with...
Hey guys, been browsing the site now for 3 weeks. I was fencing between an MES and the 18" WSM.....got the wsm yesterday. I did the Harry shoo method of "burning off and Manufatures residue" and just lit a full chimney, threw it in with all vents wide open and let her burn. I did throw some cold...
Just got my 18 " yesterday. It turned out to be the new model even though the sales guy thought it wasn't.! I was pleased, although putting your own mod. On the smoker to make for a probe hole isn't a big deal. Just saves you some time when you don't have to do it!
Hey guys, been browsing the site now for 3 weeks. I was fencing between an MES and the 18" WSM.....got the wsm yesterday. I did the Harry shoo method of "burning off and Manufatures residue" and just lit a full chimney and let her burn. I did throw some cold coals on top of the hot and noticed...
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