- Jun 11, 2018
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Happy Fathers Day+1!! So I smoked ribs for the first time yesterday.. Had the offset for 3wks now and 5 smokes under my belt. For starters I used a method from a FB picture that SmokinAl posted in one of these threads. Lump coal in the middle and two little logs, one on each side.. I lit her up and it was amazing results on temperature. 220-235 range for the first hour. After the first hour that's when I started using my head and that's when things went wrong.. Temp started to drop so I added another log. Temp did nothing and I noticed the two starter logs were only halfway burnt so I stoked the fire AND kept the new log on. 15 mins later temps are rising to 250, and 275 at the highest. I kept opening the cooking chamber to let heat out but the temps just kept moving around.. by hour 2.5 I managed to at least get the temp to stable around 240-250 when I decided to play T-ball in the backyard with the boy. I look up a good time later and tons of dirty smoke is coming out of my smokestack. I run over to the FB and bam, my fire is OUT... Rushed to get a fire going again with a few golden embers goin.. It took about 15 minutes till the sweet light-blue smoke began coming out again. And then guess what? You guessed it, temps swung back up to 260 and beyond.. all that wood I added in my panic. I actually pulled a burning log OUT of my FB. Temps went back to 240-250-ish.. My ribs were done with IT of 197deg in just 4 hours. I was hoping for 5-6 hours. I didn't wrap them. Just spritzed them a few times with apple juice.
All this trouble with my temps, The ribs still turned out excellent. Juicy, smoky, tasty, little bit of pull. I thought that dirty smoke for 15 minutes would have made and effect but I didn't taste it. Here are my pic before/after. I got pretty picture happy in the end as I was stuffing my face with this great stuff.. Enjoy!! I'm welcome to any criticism, advice, praise, jokes, and what not. Cheers.
All this trouble with my temps, The ribs still turned out excellent. Juicy, smoky, tasty, little bit of pull. I thought that dirty smoke for 15 minutes would have made and effect but I didn't taste it. Here are my pic before/after. I got pretty picture happy in the end as I was stuffing my face with this great stuff.. Enjoy!! I'm welcome to any criticism, advice, praise, jokes, and what not. Cheers.
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