Recent content by BruceW

I have no idea why, but mine did the same thing but stopped after I refilled the tank. The propane tank was low but not empty, I have no idea how low. I'm curious to know the reason too.

The flakes are pretty much normal with the charcoal webers. Just wipe/brush off the loose stuff and don't worry about it.

Last Saturday, I did my first pork butt, a 9.25 lb. picnic butt. Had to do it on a kettle because I don't have a WSM, yet. Basically, everything went wrong right from the start. After 4 hours, the temps climbed up to 275-300 at the dome and stayed there. Nothing I did could bring it down...

Thanks guys - I just wanted to make sure I was in the ballpark with my logic. My last rib cook was two racks of pork spare ribs with the temp at the dome hovering between 225 and 250. When I took the ribs out to foil them, the temp never came back up. I was around 5 hours in, and had not put...

I've got a Weber kettle, and for years I thought I was cooking at low temps - until I got a thermometer! It was way hotter than than I thought. Anyway, I've done two cooks using ribs using the Minion method basically trying to figure out time and temperature control. Its working out pretty...