Well I'm waiving the white flag of surrender.
First smoke ever and it had to be in sub-10F weather for 12+ hours just wasn't the best idea.
Starting out, everything looked good - held 300F+ at the grate for most of the night (at least when I was up).
Woke up this morning and the coals where almost out - and ever since then it's been a battle to keep the temp up and as of 2:00pm EST I'm moving the butt inside to finish off in the oven.
I started with the ring filled with unlit K, and threw a full chimney of lit K ontop - that didn't even last me 6 hours. I polished off the rest of my 18lbs bag within 12 hours, and actually used another 20 in the chimney from a new bag.
I'm really hoping that the weather begin so low (5-10F) had a lot to do with this. I had a poor excuse for a windscreen (WSM box) but I think it did its job. Either I need someone to ease my mind or point out what I did wrong!!!
Need some help!
First smoke ever and it had to be in sub-10F weather for 12+ hours just wasn't the best idea.
Starting out, everything looked good - held 300F+ at the grate for most of the night (at least when I was up).
Woke up this morning and the coals where almost out - and ever since then it's been a battle to keep the temp up and as of 2:00pm EST I'm moving the butt inside to finish off in the oven.
I started with the ring filled with unlit K, and threw a full chimney of lit K ontop - that didn't even last me 6 hours. I polished off the rest of my 18lbs bag within 12 hours, and actually used another 20 in the chimney from a new bag.
I'm really hoping that the weather begin so low (5-10F) had a lot to do with this. I had a poor excuse for a windscreen (WSM box) but I think it did its job. Either I need someone to ease my mind or point out what I did wrong!!!
Need some help!