Misha
TVWBB Member
I recently started using 18" WSM. Done pork ribs over the weekend for the first time, came out awesome, but I have more questions now!
So I did a minion method, used about the full chimney of unlit coals and about half chimney of ashed hot coals, throwed those in the middle as supposed to. I had all 3 bottom vents about 1/3 open, and fully open top vent, temp was very stable about 230 all cook long that was about 4 hours total. I used Kingsford briquettes and few chunks of wood on top for smoke.
My concern is all my coals were burnt out by the end of the cook! Holy moly, 1 1/2 chimneys for 4 hours only?
I have big plans of smoking a 10lb pork butt on upcoming Friday and now I am thinking if I should use my 22" kettle with a snake method instead as I did in the past. I used a B&B briquettes that time and for 10 hours of cook it burnt less then 2/3 of the snake! Very efficient. I was expecting something like that from WSM but maybe I am doing something wrong here with WSM?
So I did a minion method, used about the full chimney of unlit coals and about half chimney of ashed hot coals, throwed those in the middle as supposed to. I had all 3 bottom vents about 1/3 open, and fully open top vent, temp was very stable about 230 all cook long that was about 4 hours total. I used Kingsford briquettes and few chunks of wood on top for smoke.
My concern is all my coals were burnt out by the end of the cook! Holy moly, 1 1/2 chimneys for 4 hours only?
I have big plans of smoking a 10lb pork butt on upcoming Friday and now I am thinking if I should use my 22" kettle with a snake method instead as I did in the past. I used a B&B briquettes that time and for 10 hours of cook it burnt less then 2/3 of the snake! Very efficient. I was expecting something like that from WSM but maybe I am doing something wrong here with WSM?