Sean Flanagan
TVWBB Member
Not sure if this is already known but I thought I would mention it. I just got Smoke & Spice (Revised Edition, 2003) and noticed in the Vertical Water Smokers section, p10:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Charcoal models fluctuate in temperature ... You can mitigate the effect by lighting only a small circle of coals in the center, and allowing them to ignite the others over time, but you still get temperature variations... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Isn't that the Minion Method?? They should have called it as such. I think too they should have addressed the WSM, as a number of the problems they refer to (such as temperature variatons) are simply not a concern on the WSM.
Hopefully I purchased the book through TVWB. I clicked the links on the shopping page on TVWB, but then purchased the soft-cover edition (hard-cover not available, and twice the price) and got Paul Kirk's Championship Barbecue Sauces at the same time.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Charcoal models fluctuate in temperature ... You can mitigate the effect by lighting only a small circle of coals in the center, and allowing them to ignite the others over time, but you still get temperature variations... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Isn't that the Minion Method?? They should have called it as such. I think too they should have addressed the WSM, as a number of the problems they refer to (such as temperature variatons) are simply not a concern on the WSM.
Hopefully I purchased the book through TVWB. I clicked the links on the shopping page on TVWB, but then purchased the soft-cover edition (hard-cover not available, and twice the price) and got Paul Kirk's Championship Barbecue Sauces at the same time.