you know you're hooked on smokin' when you stay up until the wee hours trying a new charcoal placement method with temperature probs and all and you dont even have meat in the cooker. just bought a new weber one touch gold and got bored after cooking hamburgers. thought i would test out the method of placing briquettes in a snake around perimeter of kettle. works pretty good. a bit hot though: 242F. charcoal 1/4 way round gave 4 hours of heat.