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Today I took the oath of the Certified Barbecue Judge for the KCBS! The class was great and was taught by Mike Lake, the president of the KCBS Board. He is an extremely nice, knowledgeable and talented gentleman; not to mention - a BBQ legend in the KCBS. I had a really great time and I...

Erik, I had stopped using water for over a year but have gone back to it. I was using a foiled pan instead. Water in the pan helps maintain low and slow temperatures in a very predictable way - in my opinion of course. I find that when I use water, I maintain more consistent temperature...

Mitch, I am with you. I am going to give it a shot this weekend and see how it turns out. I plan to put a butt or brisket on Saturday night.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Mike Zarecky: After I pull all the meat from the butt I sprinkle in some of the rub and then spray with apple juice. Then I mix it up with a large...

Larry, For the past year I used a foil-wrapped pan and had the problem. I recently switched back to water (just the last 2 cooks). Now, here is what I typically do whether I use water or not... The meat is usually very cold going into the smoker. When the meat goes in, the smoker temp is...

Chris A, Do you have any input on this? You have the Weber contacts... or least more than we do. What are your thoughts and do you think Weber will have any answers?

Yep, mine looks like that... but worse! I have a lot of scraping to do because I did not catch it early.

Looks great Kevin!

Those are some mighty fine looking ribs there Mitch! Great job.

George, I plan to run a burn this week with on Royal Oak lump - no smoke wood. I will definitely post my progress. But before I do that, I am going to clean my smoker to pristine condition. That will be a lot of work but worth it to me.

I usally close all the vents, top and bottom to put the fire out and cool down the smoker... this could be the culprit!

It doesn't sound like we are doing anything to cause this. Chris addresses some of this here. This sound like a common problem for the WSM as I don't have any issues with my offset.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Ernest Buckley: ...Anyway, what I wanted to ask you is how long do you put your ribs on the smoker? I have done this twice and mine look nothing like...

Oven cleaner work but it still take some muscle to get the gunk off. I immediately cleaned things up after last nights cook. I will continue to do immediate cleanup until this thing gets figured out.

...Do you think smoking on the top grate, and then putting a layer of aluminum foil on the bottom grate to prevent drippings from going into the water pan would cause a cooking difference? I don't mind it, just kind of gets everything real messy. </div></BLOCKQUOTE> I think that might not be a...

I just cleaned my water pan. I took the foil off of it. I foil my pan the way Chris instructs. I noticed that there is a bronze-ish color on the foil; in fact, it is the same color as the film that builds up in the lid when it get wet while I am scrubbing it out. Burning or scorching foil...

Mitch, are you having the same ooey-gooey around the lid problem?

Larry, I have no idea of what my problem could be. I guess I could completely scrape down the smoker, power wash it out and start from scratch basically. That will be some work but if I am going to get to the bottom of this I have no choice. Time to get busy.

Mitch, It seems to me that the beef ribs cook about the same as pork spare ribs. The ones I did today were done in 6 hours cooking at an average of 230*. Now, these were not as meaty as some I have seen so, that may be a consideration in the cook time.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Erik G: So Tony, what did your son bring to the table? How did the wings turn out? Erik </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Erik, Checkout the post above. His...