- Sep 1, 2020
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Alright yall. I posted a picture of my ribs I threw on this morning. I was excited and curious how my first smoke would go on my new WSM. It turned out to be a learning laughable experience. I thought I'd throw a few things out there in hopes you folks would know what I could have done wrong.
I filled the base with charcoal and used the minon method. I used the water pan About half full. I put 4 fist sized (maybe smaller) hickory wood chuncks. Stayed a little over 225 for the first hour. There was smoke! More smoke then i could ever want and I cant for the life of me figure out why! I posted a picture so you guys could see how much there was.. I closed the bottom vents to about quarter of an inch and left the top vent open hoping it would hold temp. When I came back about 15mins later temp was over 250 and decided to throw my thermometer In my meat and the smoker so I could watch from inside the house. Thermometer read it was done already and my temp was almost 278 in the smoker! These ribs were done within 2 hours and my temp rose over 325!! Smoker smelled my fireworks. Im telling yall. This was a damn disaster! I'm thinking I put too many charcoals in I planned on smoking these for about 5 hours... ish so I used quite a few hoping I wouldn't have to add more later, obviously a dumb mistake. So.... let me have it folks! What were my biggest mistakes today?
I filled the base with charcoal and used the minon method. I used the water pan About half full. I put 4 fist sized (maybe smaller) hickory wood chuncks. Stayed a little over 225 for the first hour. There was smoke! More smoke then i could ever want and I cant for the life of me figure out why! I posted a picture so you guys could see how much there was.. I closed the bottom vents to about quarter of an inch and left the top vent open hoping it would hold temp. When I came back about 15mins later temp was over 250 and decided to throw my thermometer In my meat and the smoker so I could watch from inside the house. Thermometer read it was done already and my temp was almost 278 in the smoker! These ribs were done within 2 hours and my temp rose over 325!! Smoker smelled my fireworks. Im telling yall. This was a damn disaster! I'm thinking I put too many charcoals in I planned on smoking these for about 5 hours... ish so I used quite a few hoping I wouldn't have to add more later, obviously a dumb mistake. So.... let me have it folks! What were my biggest mistakes today?