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So I opted to make some pulled pork for a holiday party tomorrow. I usually leave for work around 5:30 am. So, using a conservative 2 hrs/lb, I put two 6lb butts on at 5:45 pm today. It is now 8:35, roughly 3 hours into it, and I'm sitting at 130*. It's extremely windy outside and my temps are...

This past weekend my fiancé took a walk down to the local farmers market with our little Boxer pup and brought home some very nice looking veggies. One of the locals gave her a couple fist fulls of fresh rosemary, which smelled very very good. Last night, she had grad school class so I was left...

Why don't you try using one full heaping chimney of fully light coals on the bottom, and then filling up the charcoal ring to the top with unlit coals. That way the lit coals will surely light the unlit coals and you should have a pretty raging inferno going. I did a couple HH chickens yesterday...

Hey, anyone ever have the igniter fail on their Performer? Mine is fairly newish, only about 25 cooks on it, and I had a heck of a time getting the Gas Assist started to light my chimney. Wound up using a long lighter to get it going. Replacement parts easy to install?

I've found that lump burns alot hotter and faster than Kingsford. I've had a full charcoal ring loaded with Kingsford roll at 220* for almost 22 hours straight. Haven't done a long cook like that w/ lump, but the 14 hour butt cook w/ RO Lump didn't look like it would last that long with the...

Just a thought... here is the contact list for the reps at Maverick, maybe if we inundate the president on down with emails about their crappy reception, they'll make a change ? Worth a try? http://www.maverickhousewares.com/contact_us.htm

I just can't believe no one has come out with something that rivals the Maverick in features that actually does what it claims to do. If the Maverick had none of the range issues, and went through walls up to 100ft, I would love it. It would be perfect. Is it really that hard to perfect ? They...

The ET 73 does everything I want it to do, except have the range it advertises. Dual Probes, which you can set min/max temps for both smoker and grate, alarms, timers, etc... the Maverick would be the perfect unit if I could just get it to the advertised range. i don't mind the shoddy...

You'd think that they would have given Chris the best possible WSM they had, or made sure it was 100% peffect. I mean, they knew he was going to critique it and tell all of the enthusiasts on the board. Maybe it was a shipping problem. You would think they'd send the best, thats all..

I'd be curious to see how long after they introduce the 26 3/4 OTG (or Silver), will they bring out the 26 3/4 Performer. I'd certainly love to get my hands on that. 26.75 inch Kettle Performer and a 22.5 WSM. Oh the toys!

This is awesome news. I've already got a prospective buyer at work for my old WSM. Can't wait for this bad boy to come out. I wonder how many butts we'll be able to throw. I'd like to hope for 4 on top 4 on bottom. What a wonderful world it would be...

Hmmm, I wonder if they have taken a look at some of the suggestions here to improving the WSM and taken some cues. If they just take the current model WSM and "blow it up" to proportion, I would be greatly disappointed. However, if they made structural and functional improvements, and the MSRP...

Yeah, I was pretty shocked that I couldn't get my pit beef medium rare. In an ideal world, I would have gotten in rare. I just asked for medium rare because I didn't think they'd do it rare. Little did I know they didn't have medium rare either! It was still a decent sandwich, definitely not...

Almost! They came out fantastic! A little darker than Larry's pics because I put a teaspoon of cayenna pepper into my dry mix... But my friends were amazed at how crispy these things got on the smoker. Since I cooked them around 275-300 for about 2.5 hours, they fell right off the bone. The...

Update: I've got about 6 pounds of chicken wings on the WSM. I don't think I would have been able to fit all the wings on the cooking grate of the Performer, plus, I've never done a 3 hour cook in the performer, so I decided to stick w/ the WSM. Just a foiled water pan and both cooking grates...

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Last weekend I had grilled up about 10 chicken breasts I had marinating in the Roadside Chicken marinade for about a day. I love roadside chicken, but I also love HEAT! So I decided to throw some cayenne pepper into the baste when grilling. It gave the chicken breasts a deep red coloring and...

I've been eating raw/undercooked meats my entire life, including counter defrosted meats and meats from the deep freeze that might have questionable expiration dates. As noted above, what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger ! I'd to believe I've got a pretty good iron stomach, as I rarely even...