Brand New to smoking!

[dust1388]

Hi my name is Dustin and I am very new to smoking meat. I live in Ohio. I recently for the first time did two small pork loins and chicken wings for my first go around. I am using a Charbroil electric box smoker. Everyone pray for me as I have volunteered for the task of doing a full 14# brisket for the upcoming labor day weekend! I will be glued to this site until tomorrow. Thank you in advance for any tips, previous posts, etc that may help me in my first brisket run!

 

[memog]

Welcome Dust!
And praying you have a great experecine smoking those briskets!!!

 

[gary s]

  Good afternoon and welcome to the forum from a sunny, breezy and pretty darn nice day here in East Texas, and the best site on           the web.   Lots of great people with tons of information on just about everything.

        Gary

 

[dust1388]

Thanks for the welcome guys. I have two 12 pound packers in an electric Char-broil. The temperature is jumping from 225-250 and not setting. Should I be worried? Any tips? I'm guessing its not sealed very well.

 

[dust1388]

60 degrees at 66 mins in.