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    What's The Purpose of the Water Pan?

    Thanks, Doug D., for the link to the page in this site explaining the ater pan use. To be frank, this site is so rich with content I hadn't run across that page as yet, despite several hours combing through it!
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    What's The Purpose of the Water Pan?

    I was thinking a little bit about the "food science" of BBQ, and trying to sort out the purpose of the water pan in the WSM. I came up with the following thoughts: 1) It's there for temperature control. Hard to get the WSM to 400 and keep it there if it's got a whack of water in it that takes...
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    Points vs Flats, Temp Plateaus and Others

    Craig, two butchers swore I got the point and not the flat, the cryovac package was labeled "brisket point", and the picturs on the WSM site tell me that's what I got. It was triangular, 5+" thick on one end and tapered to less than an inch on the other. There was also no real layer of fat...
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    Points vs Flats, Temp Plateaus and Others

    I had my first WSM experience this weekend -- a steallar success -- after having a class from Ron Shewchuk, Canada's BBQ champ. I have some questions & observations for the forum. 1) I ordered two whole, untrimmed briskets of 10-12 lbs from my local butcher, and what I got was two 8 lb brisket...

 

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