Hilmir Kolbeins
New member
Hi, I´m a total new guy in this smoking arena. I just bought a Weber Smokey Mountain few days ago. I´ve been watching pitmasters and got blown away, I wanted to make BBQ.
I´ve been cooking for many years and now my way around meat and other stuff needed to make great food.
But I must say my test run on the WSM did not go as planned. I used the minion methood to start the coals, but them in the crate and put the smoker together. Hoever I never got it up to temp. I looked inside and saw that the coals were not turning white. I played around for some hours until I gave up. I managed at one point to get the coals up to heat and put the smoker back together and it held the temp at 250 for about an hour when it went back down.
The weather was windy so I think that might have been a factor. I looked at the coals the next morning to see that most of them were still black.
But even though my first try did not go well, it did not dampen my spirit. Now I´m waiting for a better weather here in Iceland and also I´m looking into the V-burners (propane) to see if that might be a solution here in Iceland.
I´ve been cooking for many years and now my way around meat and other stuff needed to make great food.
But I must say my test run on the WSM did not go as planned. I used the minion methood to start the coals, but them in the crate and put the smoker together. Hoever I never got it up to temp. I looked inside and saw that the coals were not turning white. I played around for some hours until I gave up. I managed at one point to get the coals up to heat and put the smoker back together and it held the temp at 250 for about an hour when it went back down.
The weather was windy so I think that might have been a factor. I looked at the coals the next morning to see that most of them were still black.
But even though my first try did not go well, it did not dampen my spirit. Now I´m waiting for a better weather here in Iceland and also I´m looking into the V-burners (propane) to see if that might be a solution here in Iceland.