Recent content by MichaelR

Thanks everyone. I think I now understand how my experience, frustrating, fits into the way things generally should work. Next time I cook pork butt it will be on the upper rack, at slightly higher temperature, and I'll be prepared for a longer cook. My fiance found the "Renowned Mr. Brown"...

Thanks Mitch, you have no idea how helpful your response is. If it wasn't raining cats and dogs, and if everything I owned didn't smell like a campfire, I'd run right out and try it again!

I received an 18.5 for Christmas and finally got around to firing it up yesterday. I smoked a 7-1/2 lb pork butt all by itself on the bottom shelf. Although the dome thermometer said I was in the zone most of the time (dipped to 200 once or twice when I was out running errands), the internal...