Smoking pork butt

[buzzirko1976]

What's best way to keep temp at target temp on wood smoker?

 

[buzzirko1976]

What's best way to keep temp at target temp on wood smoker? Wife upset when I stay by smoker all day

 

[chef jimmyj]

Best way to maintain temp a long time with a stick burner...Buy an Electric Smoker and put it next to the stick burner.

 Stick burners make great tasting Q but by their nature, to maintain a clean hot fire that holds 225, you have to stay at it's side and feed wood every hour or so, tweaking the air intake. You can gain some walk away time with a GURU type Controller and Fan but that is an additional couple hundred dollar investment.Last  invest in a high end stick burner. A Lang is much more controllable than a $300 offset from Walmart. I ran a stick burner for years and had to babysit it. It was not until I got my first MES and AMNPS that I could set it and forget it for 9 to 10 hours...JJ

 

[buzzirko1976]

I'm actually going to stasrt catering. People real like the taste and texture of my meat so far. I need a bigger smoker as it is. I'm going to stick with wood I gues.lol