Popping the cherry on the WSM today. Cooking 3 slabs of baby backs for dinner, a shoulder for the freezer, and a sausage and pepperoni pizza fattie for snacks. (Which is just about ready to come off!) I'm taking pictures and will post in photo section later.
Early in the cook I couldn't get the temp below 250. Now it's hard to get it above 200 with all the vents open. I'm assuming accumulated ash may be inhibiting oxygen flow. When I pull of the fattie and unfoil (disfoil? defoil?) the ribs I'll see if I can monkey around with the fire to boost the temp.
I think my early high temp issues were related to starting with too many lit coals. I used the Minion method and since there was frost on the punkin around here this morning, I lit 40 coals to put on top. That was probably too many. The sun was out and it quickly got up to around 50, but felt warmer.
I let you know how things go.
Early in the cook I couldn't get the temp below 250. Now it's hard to get it above 200 with all the vents open. I'm assuming accumulated ash may be inhibiting oxygen flow. When I pull of the fattie and unfoil (disfoil? defoil?) the ribs I'll see if I can monkey around with the fire to boost the temp.
I think my early high temp issues were related to starting with too many lit coals. I used the Minion method and since there was frost on the punkin around here this morning, I lit 40 coals to put on top. That was probably too many. The sun was out and it quickly got up to around 50, but felt warmer.
I let you know how things go.