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After seven hours, I'm quite impressed. I've only had to adjust the airflow 3 or 4 times, and it has maintained between 210 and 265 the entire time.

I think ideally I'd like something silicon for easy cleaning, but I'm open to pretty much anything. I'd probably prefer something with fingers and not mittens.

They were ok, not great. I took them off when they were done after half an hour. Just put the chicken on, so I was able to take a pic of the butts:

Actually doing the butts up top. I realize I'll have to remove them briefly, but I have a plan for that. I want the chicken to be a bit lower temperature.

My name is Ben and I originally from Columbus, GA, lived in various parts of metro Atlanta (mostly Tucker) for ~15 years, and have lived in the Lowcountry since 2006. I moved to the Charleston area to work for a software company now, and was in the non-profit world working for a youth...

Too dark for pics right now, I'll post some later this morning. I am cooking, using apple wood for smoke: Two Boston Butts (one the way I'm used to doing it, one using some stuff I've read here, for comparison) 9 marinated chicken boneless breasts. (I'll put those on around 10am so I can have...

Got the meat on at 5:30am. I sensed it from my pre-sale research and from reading here post-sale, and now I feel it from my brief experiences with this sucker so far: I feel like I've entered an entirely new domain of smoking. :D

Yes, and I have a clay pot base, covered with aluminum foil, resting in the water pan.

It's here, put together, and filled with charcoal for the Minion start early tomorrow morning.

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Thanks, Chris.

One more question: how long after finishing cooking do I need to wait before putting the cover on, or can I put it on pretty much immediately?

Random side comment: I'm quite sure that part of my "issue" is that I'm off work the entire time that I'm waiting for it to be delivered, and even worse, done with all the Christmas family stuff now. (We came home last night.) I pretty much don't have anything to do today and tomorrow but read...

Agreed. As a brand spanking newbie (my WSM arrives tomorrow,) I have been very impressed and thankful for this place.

Oh, maybe this will be obvious after my first cook with it, but do I change the aluminum foil after every cook?

This makes all the sense in the world. And yes, I must confess that part of the reason for wanting to go ahead and do my mods was simply to avoid having to do it on a used grill. :D And yeah, I think I'll do something I've done before on Thursday (or Friday if it arrives late in the day...

Yup. Nope, I don't have one. Perfect info. I'll very likely get one today when I make my run to buy meat for my first smoke.

Yeah, I have a chimney starter, and it sounds like clay flower pot >>>>> water?

OK, guys. Thanks a ton. I'll fire 'er up basically un-modded (except for the wiring) and focus on temperature for now.