Recent content by Dan A

I have done bark and no bark with my wsm's and don't notice a difference. Both are good. The only thing I really check for on my smoke wood is termite or rot. For me they don't smoke very long and give off a stinky white smoke very quickly.

If you want to attempt to smoke boneless skinless chicken, do it on the grill. Throw a piece of hickory or mesquite on the hot coals and cook it for the 10 or 15 minutes like normal.

I've been wanting to this mod for a while. Just can't get around to ordering the vent wheels. Glad to know it helps that much.

Hopefully I will have all three again someday as well. I regret selling my 18.5. Now I'm searching CL and they are few and far between.

Dead on advice Kim. I foil my pork butts really tight and keep them dry. I put a light coating of BBQ sauce on my ribs before foiling them really tight as well. They are never mushy, and are perfect. It took me quite a few cooks to figure this out, wish I had read Kim's advice a couple years ago.

Amazon for me. I was hoping to find them locally in bulk, but couldn't.

The last butt I did took about that long too. I finally foiled it because I got tired of waiting. I think I'm just going to start foiling when I hit 175 degrees since it didn't seem to affect the final product.

I just recently fully switched to royal oak lump. Just because it's the easiest and cheapest for me to buy. I pack it in tight and then use a half chimney of kbb lit coals to start it. On my last few 225 degree long cooks I've gone 16 hours and still have leftover coals. Of course I do have the...

I use two 48" (I think) bungee cords. I run each through one side of the handle and down to the legs. Then I put the cover on and bungee it to the back seat or wall. It travels very well when it's put together and bungeed.

I also have the party q and love it. Super simple to setup and use being battery powered.

Do you have an atc unit that could help maintain your temps for you? I haven't used my party q on my performer yet, but I plan to.

So Sam, after your first cook are you satisfied with the size or do you wish you had gone 18.5? Or still to early?

I know I'm talking about the 22.5 and you have the 18.5, but my Cajun door was a terrible fit. It had huge gaps after installing the nomex gasket kit. My weber latch broke almost immediately as well. I purchased the compression latch and the fit was still awful. So I started bending the Cajun...

Oh well, it's a no. They didn't know what heatbeads were.

I saw on the heatbeads website that BBQ galore sells them. I may call to see since I have one a few miles from my house but I'm really happy with lump charcoal now. It lasts longer than all my cooks and I end up reusing it next time. I do love trying new things though, even though I really...