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Just a quick introduction to the group. I've been following along for awhile now and doing lots of research. I recently won a $200 gift certificate to a grill dealer and I got a WSM with it. After reading all about it, I decided to fire it up the other night with just some cheap meat that I didn't care about. I've never done anything low & slow in my life so I started with some brats. I used lump charcoal with an extra charcoal grate at a 90 degree angle to the first one. I fired it using the Minion method with about a third of a chimney full of lump.
After about 30 minutes I was up to 200 degrees so I threw the brats on and let it get up to 225 before starting to shut down the vents. I kept it between 225-250 for two hours. I had one spike to 260 after I opened to check on them after the first hour, but it quickly came back down to temp. After I was done cooking, I just practiced keeping the temp in that range for another 2 hours. In the end, I accidently let it spike to 289, but I shut it down completely at that point. The next morning I check out my lump situation and I'd only used about 1/3 of it.
This was way easier than I thought it'd be. I'm going to try two butts on Sunday night for Monday's dinner and I'm going to throw some ribs on Monday afternoon as well. Wish me luck!
Cheers,
Wes
After about 30 minutes I was up to 200 degrees so I threw the brats on and let it get up to 225 before starting to shut down the vents. I kept it between 225-250 for two hours. I had one spike to 260 after I opened to check on them after the first hour, but it quickly came back down to temp. After I was done cooking, I just practiced keeping the temp in that range for another 2 hours. In the end, I accidently let it spike to 289, but I shut it down completely at that point. The next morning I check out my lump situation and I'd only used about 1/3 of it.
This was way easier than I thought it'd be. I'm going to try two butts on Sunday night for Monday's dinner and I'm going to throw some ribs on Monday afternoon as well. Wish me luck!
Cheers,
Wes