Who Has The Hottest Running WSM?

[Alan F]

My 18" has 15 to 20 cooks on it. I'll start with all vents open and when it's within 25 degrees of target temp I shut all vents down to 25%, which will slow the rise. But the temp will keep rising, so I'll close all vents as it gets too high. This will hold the temp fairly constant for an hour. Eventually I'll want to increase the temp 15 degrees, and opening one vent a fraction will begin to raise temps high enough to where it will need to be closed again.

I'd say this runs pretty hot. Too hot to work with a guru I imagine.

Who thinks they have a WSM that runs hotter than this?

 

[Carter Collins]

I don't know anything about the guru. I just put an Ique 110 on mine Monday and it worked well. My WSM ran a little hot before. I had 2 really tight vents on the bottoms and 1 that was a little loser. So I shut off the 2 tightest vents and used the loose one for the Ique connection bowl. Seemed to work fine for me.

 

[Marco T.]

The new guys. . . .