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  1. J A Petty

    My first smoke ever! Stop by and yell at me or give me tips!

    All things considered I think things turned out very well. My 3 butts took 13 hours and were all around 203-205F when I took them off. I pulled them and bagged them and will deal more with them tomorrow when I'm not quite as tired! I tasted quite a bit as I was pulling, for research of...
  2. J A Petty

    My first smoke ever! Stop by and yell at me or give me tips!

    Ha! Good to know. One question, I have my probe in my top lvl pork butt and have 2 underneath it. All the pieces are the same size, should I have my probe in one of the lower ones rather than the top one? I guess it would make sense to have the probe in a lower one since I could use my...
  3. J A Petty

    My first smoke ever! Stop by and yell at me or give me tips!

    Oh, not at all Bob! Thanks for the advice. I opened the top up as you said. I hesitate to even mention this, but I kinda didn't have the water bowl in the right place. Yes, I had it sitting on the freaking coals basically. *sigh* Ah well. I have fixed that problem and am now running hot...
  4. J A Petty

    My first smoke ever! Stop by and yell at me or give me tips!

    As the title says, today I am smoking for my first time ever. I bought a WSM 22.5 last week and other than a load of charcoal run through with no meat this is the first time I've used it. I have three 8.7 lb pork butts on as well as 3 plain fatties to see if I can get a little more fat out to...
  5. J A Petty

    Howdy, from DFW TX!

    Hey there! I've been grilling for close to 30 years and always looked at smoking as voodoo or something. I just hit 40 this month and decided I should start practicing this voodoo as well, I mean, why not! I did some research and just purchased a WSM 22.5 and am putting it together today...

 

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