Recent content by Christopher Sockrider

After 5 hours cook and one hour rest in foil, I had two nice pieces. We are one and I took the op there one and put it in the oven at 225 for another 6 hours to see what happens. The first one turned out great. It wasn't cooked long enough to pull apart, but it cut fine into tenderloin style...

Ive had my WSM 22 for just over a year and love it. Its been a great experience. Pork butt today!

Thank you for the replies. I have a pork butt. The packaging confused me. For my second mistake, I realized this morning that my butt needed to go on the smoker last night. After a bit of thinking, I cut it in half and added rub to the newly exposed parts. On the WSM it went and I'll see how...

I have a 9 lb Boston blade pork shoulder. I'm a year into ownership of my WSM 22 and have been very pleased, but have not cooked a pork shoulder. Is there a reason so many topics here are about the pork butt? My local grocery has plenty of pork shoulders but I don't usually see pork butts. I...

I've had my 22 about 2 months and I'm about a dozen cooks into it. Today, I am doing my second Turkey. Following the instructions, I don't seem be able to get my temp over about 310 degrees. I have yet to under cook anything, but I wonder what I may be doing wrong. I mostly fill the ring and...

Round 3 this weekend. I did three slabs of St Louis style pork ribs each with a different dry rub. No water in the pan this time. All was going well at the 2 hour mark I was running about 265 degrees. I had my 3 vents about 50%. I had put about 4/5 full Kingsford charcoal so there was plenty of...

I would like to attempt my first turkey as well and I have a 22". How long or should I say how much time/lb?

Big success today. I did end up adding about 1 liter of warm water. It evaporated within about an hour and I don't think it helped much. The ribs were really good. The sausage was a little overdone, but it all got eaten. I couldn't get the WSM over about 310 (this was after 4 hours of ribs on...

Thanks. I decided to go without water today. Maybe a mistake. I'm learning. I put about 3/4 chimney on top of a ring 3/4 full with charcoal and some hickory. It got to about 250 and started to climb. I've got all three vents closed now and its been about 240 for the last hour. I can see...

Thanks. I'm up early and should have time to do that and make a hungry crowd happy this afternoon. Worst case, I could finish one or the other in the oven if I had to overlap. I appreciate the help. Chris

What would you suggest for the chicken?

I had only one chimney full and it wasn't nearly enough fuel. Ill do better tomorrow.

I did my first smoke on my new WSM "22 today as a trial run for big family gathering tomorrow. It's also my first smoke of any type at all, so I expected some issues. I filled the chimney starter and followed directions found online. Then I added 4 pieces of soaked hickory. I put on a standard...