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Tim K, Thank you for your reply. Yes your right, I do want as much heat as possible for the chicken cooks. At times I use the Mini as an oven outside when my wife wants to keep the kitchen cool. In the past I have had some pretty good ribs though. Maybe this time the high temp spike was the...

Smoked some spareribs yesterday and unfortunately they were extremely dry. The cook time was 5 hours. I have a SMS that I have drilled 2 3/4" holes on opposite sides of the base. I control the heat by covering/uncovering these holes with metallic discs. Shortly after bringing the temp to 225 and...

Ken: I would advise against drilling holes, unless you can close the holes off. You will not be able to control the temperature when smoking. If the purpose is to grill and smoke, you have two options. Buy a Gold, install the SJS bottom vent and heat shield/ash catcher. Or just use the SJS...

Hi everyone, Just joined the forum and must say this thread is great!! Never realized one could build a Mini until now. I've read every post of this thread and now I think my mind is like mush, trying to recall everything My wife and I camp in our 5th wheel quite a bit and really enjoy the...