Luke and Bethany
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Luke here, and it's 4:00 a.m. local time. We ended up putting on 2 butts - one at 8lb and one at just under 6lb. This is our first "extended smoke" on our WSM. We cooked some chicken thighs for about 1.5 hrs the night we got it and were impressed then by how it held such a steady temp. Just for the fun, we left everything the way it was on the smoker and it was still holding steady 3 hours later. We then had confidence in our new addition.
Anyway, on to the reason for the post. We're about 6 hours into the cook and it's going great so far. We have 2 butts, an 8lb on the top rack and a 5.8 on the bottom. I just refilled the water pan because the temp started rising a little bit and the water was running low. So far it's brought it back down a little too far so I opened up the bottom vents to 100%. They've been that way for about 20 mins, so I'm about to go see what the thermo reads now to make adjustments.
We started off with the Minion Method, smoking with hickory, and we've just been horribly impressed by how easy and perfect everything's going! If we'd have known that just one little WSM would make life this easy...
So anyway, I'll keep you posted on how everything turns out, just a little early morning insomnia after smelling all the smoke and pig again. This has me almost as excited as Christmas morning! later everyone
Anyway, on to the reason for the post. We're about 6 hours into the cook and it's going great so far. We have 2 butts, an 8lb on the top rack and a 5.8 on the bottom. I just refilled the water pan because the temp started rising a little bit and the water was running low. So far it's brought it back down a little too far so I opened up the bottom vents to 100%. They've been that way for about 20 mins, so I'm about to go see what the thermo reads now to make adjustments.
We started off with the Minion Method, smoking with hickory, and we've just been horribly impressed by how easy and perfect everything's going! If we'd have known that just one little WSM would make life this easy...
So anyway, I'll keep you posted on how everything turns out, just a little early morning insomnia after smelling all the smoke and pig again. This has me almost as excited as Christmas morning! later everyone