John-Peterson
TVWBB Fan
The past few times Ive had a little difficulty controlling temps. Im guessing its because my center section might be out of round. It seems as there could is a gap where the lower kettle and center section meet.
Im doing a pork butt and have a ring packed with blue K and four fist size pieces of hickory. I did a 1/3 chimney on RO briq's to start it and dumped them on one side of the "Ring Of Blue K".
I put the butt on right away, with vents at: top 100% bottom 20% 20% 20%. After it got to a little over 250, I ended up with the vents at: top 100% bottom 20% 0% 0%. We went and did some running for a few hours, came home and it was just over 300 dome temp. I know have all the bottom vents closed and the top vent at 50% and my temp probe is reading 272 at about the grate.
I havent taken the lid off or open the door once since the butt went on. Im guessing that Im going to have to do a Nomex gasket on the lower portion like others have done.
Im doing a pork butt and have a ring packed with blue K and four fist size pieces of hickory. I did a 1/3 chimney on RO briq's to start it and dumped them on one side of the "Ring Of Blue K".
I put the butt on right away, with vents at: top 100% bottom 20% 20% 20%. After it got to a little over 250, I ended up with the vents at: top 100% bottom 20% 0% 0%. We went and did some running for a few hours, came home and it was just over 300 dome temp. I know have all the bottom vents closed and the top vent at 50% and my temp probe is reading 272 at about the grate.
I havent taken the lid off or open the door once since the butt went on. Im guessing that Im going to have to do a Nomex gasket on the lower portion like others have done.