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I use the HeaterMeter discussed on the this forum and described in this wiki. It runs my BBQ Guru 10CFM Pit Viper blower. I also recently installed a Cajun Bandit door and compression latch so my WSM is pretty tight. -- Mache

Apologies for the cross post, but I asked on the HeaterMeter forum and thought I ask over here. I am thinking about using my WSM as a holding oven for brisket and ribs and have a HeaterMeter ATC. How low has anyone been able to get a WSM with an ATC? -- Mache

I would wrap it so the surface does not dry out. Refrigerators are very dry. -- Mache

That is what I figured and my WSM is now pretty tight. However, I was looking to see if anyone had any actual experience getting a WSM down that low. There may be a theoretical low temperature limit based on a minimum charcoal mass required to sustain the fire. -- Mache

For $200 you can build your own HeaterMeter which has its forum on this website. Here is the wiki and here is the forum. -- Mache

I have a 20+ year old 18.5" WSM with a new Cajun Bandit door, compression latch, and HM and want to find out the lowest temperature I can maintain. Once my briskets/ribs have finished, I have been doing Foil, Towel, Cooler (FTC) to safely keep them hot for several hours until its time to eat...

Wrap the re-foiled brisket in old towels before you place it in the pre-warmed cooler. You can pre-warm a cooler by rinsing it in boiling water. Also don't cook brisket to a preset temperature like 205. Start checking for probe tender around 185 and pull it off the smoker right when it becomes...

Aaron Franklin has a PBS series, BBQ with Franklin, that goes through his methods for brisket, spare ribs, turkey, and butt. -- Mache

Is it possible to use it on a bottom vent of a WSM? You could use a stainless steel bowl fan adapter to cover the entire vent and the damper mechanism. -- Mache

When the brisket is done you can separate the point from the flat, cube the point up, dust with more rub, place in a disposable aluminum tub, and smoke some more for 1-2 hours. The point is extremely well marbled and very forgiving regarding cooking so it can take the extra time just fine. I...

Use the Minion Method. I have a 20 year old 18.5" WSM and it can go close to 30 hours on a single load of standard Kingsford Charcoal Briquets using an Automatic Temperature Controller (ATC) and blower. For a 15lb brisket cooking at 225F my experience has been 1-1.3 hours per pound making the...

What were the width and thickness of the gaskets for the barrel? For the door? -- Mache

If I am to understand it correctly, the gaskets were installed on both the top and bottom of the middle section. Can you tell me the rationale for doing it that way rather than the bottom of the middle section and the top of the bowl or the bottom of the lid and the top of the middle section...

I have a very old (around 20 years) 18.5" WSM with a newly installed Cajun Bandit door and Southco Inc SC-62315 Lift-and-Turn Compression Latch that I want to seal with gaskets. 1. In order to get the best surface preparation possible, what types of solvent/cleaner do folks recommend to clean...

I had to wait until they came back in stock at Amazon and just purchased one. Do a search right now on SC-62315. Amazon has one left in stock. Also, you may be able to find it somewhere else by its Southco part number: 62-30-15. Good luck -- Mache

It sounds like you are trying to access the HM from the Internet and somehow AT&T is balking. When you access the HM from your iPad are you accessing it locally through the LAN via WiFi (using its LAN address like 192.168.x.y) or are you accessing it through its cellular data network, over the...

First off you have five null port forward rules before the active ones in the table and then some null rules afterward. Can you delete all of those null rules, save the configuration, and then reboot the router. That might be your problem right there. Are you absolutely sure the HM has an IP...

Bryan is right. Sadly, since you are using the stock Linksys firmware there does not seem to be a way to list the firewall iptables rules to see what is misconfigured. If you switched to 3rd party router firmware like tomato, open-wrt, or dd-wrt (my favorite), this would be easier to diagnose...

How did you assign the static IP to the HM? Did you do MAC-based DHCP so that the DNS cache in the router would know about the HM? If your router firmware supports it, I would go that route. Also, how did you do your port forwarding in the router? Most routers have a table. Is it correctly...

I saw your other post about having a Memorial Day party and having a DigiQ DX2 by then. If you use an Automatic Temperature Controller (ATC) you do not fill the water pan with water. You just foil it over. Only fill water pan if you are not using an ATC. -- Mache