Craig Cole
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Well I tried my first smoke with WSM and I choose BRITU ribs. I put the ribs on smoker at 11am figuring around 5-5:30 Dinner. it is now 9:26 and just finished them about 15 mins ago. I followed the instructions fairly well, and things went well at first. After the first three hours, the temp never went beyond 250 and hovered around 225. I know the instructions says to open vents wide and the temp will go up to 275 to 280 for the last 3 hours or so. Is this where I went wrong. At 6pm I added more coals and stoked the hot coals and it did go up to 280. Any help is appreciative.