Recent content by Gil Rohde

We had a small party and I smoked a pork butt. My parents were there and I asked my father if he wanted to pull it and I gave him the bear claws. I came back a few minutes later and he was throwing out all the bark! He said "oh that looked burnt."

I find it also has to do with ash building up on the charcoal. If I knock the legs or better yet stick a poker in and shift around the charcoal to get rid of the ash, the smoke increases again. The temperature also increases so watch that. The problem with this, which I don't see people...

This weekend I did my first overnight smoke with a large 10 lb butt on my 18.5 WSM. I used Kingsford blue charcoal with the minion method. Everything seemed to be going well and I was planning on foiling it to speed it through the stall period. When it got close to stall temp I checked on it...

Dave, I have been having trouble getting the blue smoke. I have been using the minion method, burying some wood chunks in the unlit charcoal and putting some on top after I pour on the lit charcoal. I have been putting the meat on immediately, but for the first 30-45 minutes I just get tons of...

Thanks for all the useful advice. I did use apple and hickory, probably 2/3 apple. Interesting about the smoke color. I was thinking that the easily visible white smoke was what I wanted. So how to get the blue smoke? I am a big fan of Alton Brown so I'll check out the video.

For Labor Day I cooked my first pork butt for pulled pork. It was just a small 3.5lb boneless since it was just for my wife and me (and kids, but they don't eat anything). It took 9 hours and was very good, but I don't feel it was smokey enough. There was only about a 1/8" smoke ring. Here...

I am still surprised I wasn't able to get it close to the proper temperature using the standard Weber directions. Especially since it is supposed to run hot when new.

I added coals multiple times so by the end I probably had used about 100.

Last weekend I was surprised by my wife with a 18.5" WSM as a Father's Day gift. Nice surprise to say the least. After assembling it, I immediately ran to the store to get charcoal, wood chunks, and baby back ribs. I then followed the Weber instructions. Not having a charcoal starter, I piled...