Recent content by John A

Thanks Jim, This is for a party and the day of I'm baking the bday cake! I figured I'd like to have the jalepenos done the day before. Thanks for quick reply!

Hi - Last week I made my first ever batch of stuffed jalepenos: colby jack and cream cheese inside a halved pepper, wrapped in bacon and smoked for a couple of hours. Incredible! My question is: do you think the peppers could be prepped the day before they are smoked in the WSM? I think the...

Yes, I think the ribs fit great on the 18.5. However, I do a lot of trimming on my ribs b/c I think that Costco ribs just have too much meat on certain portions of the rack and it makes cooking very uneven. So I trim them up quite a bit. I also cut 1-2 bones off of each side to make sure it...

ding ding ding. Yes it is the Charcoal Companion. I really like it. I have two of them.

This has been my 5th or 6th smoke on my new 18.5in WSM. Yesterday I smoked 9 baby back rib racks (from Costco) - 5 on the top grate and 4 on the bottom grate. I am so impressed. First, the ribs were done after 5 hours. Second, I was able to do all my other pre-party chores (lawn mow, ice...

Outstanding estimations! The ribs cooked for about 4-5 hours and were easily done at the 5 hour mark. They were very good. I had real trouble getting over a 215-225 degree temperature hurdle. So pretty much the whole cook was at 215-225 and never higher. I thought this would screw me but it...

It depends how hard the smokenator is to maintain temperature. I used to smoke on my Weber performer (no smokenator) and i used to have wild temperature fluctuations and it required quite a bit of work. The WSM is an incredible piece of equipment - set up the minion method and that sucker...

Thanks guys - great answers. I think that the consensus is that it may take an extra hour at most. I'll schedule for 5 hours after seeing what everyone has suggested. Chuck - I think all rib racks are terrible to clean. I clean mine off the next time my performer is warming up coals. I'll...

Can anyone give their best guess at the following, it would really help me out for my big rib smoke this weekend: I normally smoke 1 rack of costco baby back ribs laying flat on the top grate for 4 hours; how long do you think 5 racks would take on the top grate in a rib rack? Normal...

This is interesting. My question comes about b/c I used to smoke ribs on my standard weber kettle. It worked great with 1-3 racks. When you get more than 3 (say 6) it would take 2-3 times as long. But I guess that is understandable since the fuel source in the kettle was literally 6-10 lit...

Oh well- I can live without posting pics on this forum; but I would like to know: What would the time frame of a fully loaded top grate with 6 racks of baby backs? The picture that is unable to be shown on this forum in the first post shows 6 baby backs jammed tight in a rib rack on the top...

Thanks for your response Terre! So you've done 3 racks of baby backs in 4 hours. That's in line with about how long I've done 1 baby back. This weekend I'm doing 5 racks of babybacks on the top grate in a rib rack - do you think I should allow maybe 5 hours to get them done? I'm sure the...

Yeah - maybe i'm at fault. Most discussion forums allow you to upload a jpg from your desktop. This allows most people to upload photos quite simply. As I understand it, this forum only allows photos linked to photo storage sites. If I'm wrong please let me know - I am a food photography...

I know this thread is a few years old - but I'm curious: A loaded top grate like this - what cooking time are we talking about for standard bbq temps (250ish)? I know I can happily do 1 rack in 4 hours - adding 5 more racks are we talking about a 6-8 hour smoke?

you know - i like this forum - some good advice on here - but it is really annoying to post photos. it should be like a normal forum where you can just upload a pic, rather than all this link nonsense. and the links internal to weberbullet dont work when linked to. regardless, above i was...