Recent content by Brian C.

I did my first pizza cook last night, long story short I will never cook pizza in the oven again! I got dough from Trader Joes and sauce as well, just didn't have time to make my own like I normally do for my deep dish. Got home and fired up a full chimney of coals, while those were going my...

Where can you find it in TJ, frozen or fresh?

Nice job! Sounds like you are going to be working your way through the KCBS meats!!

Rbanks, nice to see you finally got your 22 in, good looking first smoke!

Good afternoon all, my name is Brian and I have been smoking for about 2.5 years. I started off drinking beer with a buddy while he did his smokes. That lead to me helping more and more, which then lead to he and I being on a competition team together. While I have been smoking for a couple...

Jeff, you certainly could run your leads through the top vent, that's what I do with my kettles when I'm running them as smokers. The problem with doing that on the WSM is that there is nowhere to hang the lid off the side of the unit like the kettles. Because of this you have to disconnect...

Bob, nope the squirrels are a pain in the arse! RBanks, that would be cool!

Yeah, I have a few toys, WSM 18.5, 18.5 kettle, 22 kettle, Gas portable, and two burner gas no-name. Two IQ110's, and a Maverick. James, yes it was a nice first smoke. I was a bit disapointed that I ran them too long and dried them out, but being the first smoke on this one and trying to do...

Well I got my WSM 18.5 yesterday; I have been smoking for about two years on my buddy’s WSM and have done a few KCBS comps with him as well. The last comp, my wife came along and got excited about smoking and gave me the go ahead to get my own smoker. I have used my kettle prior to this to...