Recent content by MartinB

I roast My own coffee......1 lb lasts right at 1 week. If you want to preserve coffee beans vacuum seal them and put them in the freezer it will help for some weeks . If you're buying ground coffee form grocery store you're just spinning your wheels anyway. It's already old and stale when you...

I pressure wash. Works good most of time. I will also put grates and things in the dishwasher sometimes and that works pretty good too...sustained humid hot water environment

It's about all you can find and.... Let's be honest they suck...as ribs. At least that's my opinion One end of the rib is too much thicker than the other usually. Part of the ribs will be overcooked and part maybe even undercooked I wish they would go back to just normal ribs and not this...

Depending on how you cook and what temperature....3-2-1.....may be 2.5-1-0.5

I have hung ribs and I put a catch grate below them so that if they did fall they would not go into the coals.... But I also think it's too much trouble and I don't do it. Using two hooks under the second bone they did not fall apart , but it is a possibility. Due to the higher temperature at...

I just use two forks.... There's no need for anything else.... Not even gloves. Only takes a few minutes to totally shred a 10 lb pork butt. You don't need all the gimmicks

It's just basically a split range control.... Which is really common. Do one thing from x to y and another thing from y to z. The thing is even after you turn the blower off...... Natural convection can pull air through the smoker and keep it going,..... So the damper provides the additional...

Well it might be possible I would really worry about all the meat not coming out as equal due to temperature differences. The fastest cooking are the ones on the bottom and they're the hardest to get to. WSM simply are really not high volume cookers.... Because the only useful rack is the top...

The wsm temperature in natural ventillation operation depends on vent opening ....and how many coals are lit... Because that powers the draft. If you don't light enough it won't reach your temperature , if you light too much it will overshoot.... Requiring manual damper adjustments to get it...

Nothing new here, this forum has been around for years. I use a heater meter with a blower and a damper.... And it does several things: In conjunction with my expanded charcoal ring, it runs hands off for 24 hours.+ .... I do not need to add charcoal, or knock down Ash...ever...

What's the purpose of the door? My wsm runs 30 hrs on single load of charcoal with an expanded coal ring and controller. I never need to open my door or knockdown ash.

There was a small historic town 20,000 people or so I used to drive through and stop at a small barbecue joint there all the time when driving through there for work around mealtime. It had really good barbecue.... But the owner sold it.... And two women apparently bought it.... That...

I think you have to differentiate between small chains and national chains. There are small local / regional places with a few locations ...2-10 or so that are great .... Much harder to do on the national level with hundreds. But I can tell you this.... If they don't have a strong smoke smell...

Simplicity made difficult.

Friend's dad had one back in the 1970s..... I thought it was pretty dumb to have to crouch down to Cook your food