A nice Thursday....question about possible air leaks


 
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Chris Derum

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I normally have Fridays off, but with The Masters starting today and the Mrs. in Vegas on a business trip I decided to make it a four day weekend.

As I sit here in the middle of the day wondering if its to early to crack a brew I just put on two racks of BB and a couple of Maui Onion sausages.

Sitting in the sun watching my WSM come up to temp I notice tiny bits of smoke coming from under the lid seam, a tiny bit around the door and some out of the BBQ Guru eyelets I just installed.

Now I have probably 20 or so cooks under my belt and never really thought much of the smoke thinking it was pretty normal. With the two new eyelets should I be concerned about the added airflow? Probably nothing, but thought I would check since I've never really had issues with temp control.

Ahh can't wait for those bad boys to be done, possibly follow it up with a nice Cuban cigar I picked up on vacation and a huge Zin, it should be a quality day.
 
Chris,

you are a source of envy for many of the men and women on this board. Here in colorado springs today it is about 30 degrees farenheit and the wind is blowing about 60mph. I would love to be smelling the sweet smoke boiling out of my WSM and watching the masters today. Enjoy the good stuff

Hunter
 
Sounds like your WSM preforms like mine, no worries sounds pretty normal to me.

It's 76 and sunny here and I'm having a tough time staying at my desk (I home office) and not going outside and grilling/smoking something and drinking a cold one. Enjoy the Ms. being gone and some "man" time!
 
Larry, I'm a home office guy as well. The Mrs is too for that matter. Should be a nice man day.

We should top out in the upper 70's as well today. I just went ahead and made the executive decision to take a day off. Its beer:30 somewhere.

I'm running a little hot right now (clay saucer, MM start with 5 lit) so I made some very intricate/exclusive aluminum foil plugs for the eyelets just to be sure.
 
This seems normal Chris, I have the same problem as both you and Larry.

Sorry, but I can't fight the urge. It's going to be in the 70's today and I'll be throwing on a few new yorks and asparagus. Can't wait.

Erik
 
That makes three of us that are home officed. I am sitting here watching the first round of the Masters. Would I rather be there or here? I love the game of golf, but I would rather be here smoking this pork butt and drinking a cold one. Got my pool all cleaned up just in case one of us gets the marbles to jump in it this weekend. We could reach the 90's by Sunday. I don't care either way. All I know is the beer will be cold, the foods will be good and the friends will be as always; great to have around to share in the feast.
 
Completely normal Chris. As far as the beer goes don’t do what I did on my first smoke. I started the WSM around 12noon and started some ribs then I thought “hey a cold beer sounds good about now” so I opened one. Well then I opened another as I watched my new toy smoke away, then another and another and another, etc. Well when my wife returned home around 5pm from running errands I was sauced. She was laughing soooooo hard. Anyway, enjoy and I’m jealous of your 4 day weekend.

Hey Ed I’ll buy you a cold six pack if you jump in that pool. I was cleaning ours the other day and it was freezing!
 
Everything settled in fine guys. Had the sausage for lunch it was awesome. My local buther makes killer sausages in many unique varieties.

After three Fat Tire Ales I was looking at our pool and thought about a plunge, decided against in favor of a fourth beer.

Cheers!
 
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