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  1. paulstat

    Cook for the weekend

    What with fathers day coming up this weekend I have been tasked with the cooking, I am going to do a pulled pork and a whole chicken (home made pesto inserted under the skin, and smothered on top with a salt and herb rub). As the pork will take 9hrs or so (?) I was going to get it smoking with...
  2. paulstat

    How much water in the waterpan?

    As title really, I smoked a leg of lamb a few weeks ago using cheap charcoal from Asda, I used the whole 5kg bag and lit it using the minion method. I had about 2.5 litres of boiled water in the water pan. Even with the vents open fully the entire time I could not get the temp to go above 200F...
  3. paulstat

    Popped in to say Hi

    Thanks to Danny for the invitation. I'm Paul, I live in Bristol, I'm relatively new to smoking, the smoker I have is the ProQ Excel vertical charcoal smoker. Whilst I'm here I may as well ask a question, which charcoal do you guys use and where do you get it from?
  4. paulstat

    Hello from the UK

    Hi Guys, My name is Paul and last summer I bought my ProQ Excel smoker, I'm still quite new to it but hopefully this year I'll make some proper use of it :) Paul
  5. paulstat

    How much charcoal?

    Hi Folks, I have a ProQ Excel, similar in style/size to the WSM. The charcoal basket is quite large and obviously for long cooks of 7 hours or so I fill it right up. But should it always be filled? What if I'm only doing 3 hrs for a whole chicken for example? If I only fill it part way will it...
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