Hello all, new Weber smoker owner or at least soon to be. I ordered a 22.5 WSM after beating my head against the desk reading countless posts about which smoker to get. Still a little scared I over did it with the 22.5 but I know I bought a great unit and like someone else stated buy the weber and cry once. Too late for me though I bought a Brinkman off set and spent a lot of time learning how to control temps. Ate some good food but threw away some really bad stuff early on. I have a Weber Genesis Silver C and love it, my favorite piece is the rotisserie for Turkey. I'm gonna try the Apple Brine this weekend on my new 22.5 WSM.

Congrats Tim and welcome.

You will have a fun time with the wsm.

Take some pictures of that turkey

And good luck!

Well 2 days of BBQ and must say I'm happy but not ecstatic. There is a little bit of a curve with this but I must say it is easier than my offset was when I first started.

I started out with the beginners BBQ chicken which was easy and very good. Really enjoy the video on halving a chicken, I will use that a lot (might try it on the turkey next time).

Next I did the Apple Brine Turkey which turned out really good but I was a little frustrated with the temps on my 22.5 WSM that is were I need the learning curve. I never reached 350 only 325 which was difficult at that. I read a lot of advice on the site and will be trying some of those. I just had to finish off the turkey on my weber gas grill at 400 for a little while but smoked it for 3 hours at about 250 to 325.

The one thing I was excited about is how easy it is to maintain 250 to 275. Next weekend is rib time, very excited to see how much better my Weber is and glad I experimented with the poultry first.