Hey everyone, I'm from the Texas panhandle just turned 29, and just got a Kingsford Sierra grill with smoke box. It was in my budget and have always wanted to try smoking meats. I've already spent a good couple hours on here reading up different things people had to say about smoking meats and what interested me the most was the foiling-towling-cooler phase of smoking. I've never heard about that before. I'm sure that no matter how much I read up on smoking that it's going to take several several several attempts before I learn how MY smoker works and how to best smoke on MY smoker. Something that I wondered about, and haven't read up on yet, is the charcoal to wood ratio in my smoke box, and if my charcoal dies or starts to die out do I add more charcoal or just keep adding wood or both. I have read that wood burns hotter than charcoal does. I've also read that you should wet your wood before smoking with it and I've read that you should't wet your wood at all. I was also wondering if it's better to use wood chips or wood chunks. Another thing I'm wondering about is if i need to rotate my meat every hour or whenever or not and just leave it alone. I know some of my wondering might sound a bit "duh", but I'd rather be prepared to start smoking than not prepared at all. What I've gathered about smoking so far is that it comes with experience and preference. So hopefully from here I can gather some useful tips to help my experience to learn my preference to become a master smoker.
