I just completed my first cook with the Stoker. Anybody buying one should pay close attention to the part about keeping the load of charcoal even. I decided to use a horseshoe to keep the space in front of the blow free, bad idea as temp spiked a bit more than an hour into the cook:
(I had problems with Stokerlog maintaining connection and kept receiving messages that "an error had occured". In addition, the fan never showed, prob the same problem)
Basic TJs South African Smoke rub, 4 hours smoking, then two applications of KC Mastepiece 15 minutes apart. TJs rub was a bust (tasted like pepper), but ribs were fall off bone tender:
![081311smoke600.jpg](http://digifiend.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/081311smoke600.jpg)
(I had problems with Stokerlog maintaining connection and kept receiving messages that "an error had occured". In addition, the fan never showed, prob the same problem)
Basic TJs South African Smoke rub, 4 hours smoking, then two applications of KC Mastepiece 15 minutes apart. TJs rub was a bust (tasted like pepper), but ribs were fall off bone tender:
![201108-smoker01cd600.jpg](http://digifiend.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/201108-smoker01cd600.jpg)