Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

The WSM is no joke of a cooker. I've had 5k dollar cookers and the WSM performed better in in some situations.

 

Pork belly earlier this week-end.

 

She came out pretty dam good for a hot and heavy cook wrapped her 4hrs was done right at 5 1/2. Just took the point and made the Devils candy. The flat will get crushed later

 

The Cajun bandit door with a gasket is a huge debate with in it self. I don't run one and never had a problem. Hell I haven't use the water pan in years. One thing the door needs thou is a compression latch. I got mine off of Amazon.

 

had to add water to my empty water pan to bring the temp down, means a messy clean up now

 

Yup made my own latch. Took a trip to home depot and spent about $3,went home and finished with this .works like a champ

 

Did you brine them at all or just put the rub on them?

 

Sub'd for best thread ever !

 

Just good ole rub! Sauced two racks and one dry.

 

Stocked up on Kingsford blue for summer . That's 12*18.6lb bags. It should at least get me to the next 9.88 sale at Lowe's or home depot on labor day.

 

Ha, I hit them up every sale they have also. I get a bit nervous if I get below 100lbs or so.

 

"Limit 2"... Shenanigans! I usually get 5 twin packs per sale. I got the last 4 today and still had 2 twin packs from the sale a few weeks ago.


And tonight I'm experimenting with something. I've used newspaper with and without oil and paper towel with oil. Tonight, 2 Doritos.

 

You can use a slice of Kraft cheese too shit will burn foreveeeer

 

That's kinda scary when you think of it lol

 

Just oil. Doritos will burn very well. I used four pine cones a few weeks ago while camping, worked fine. At home I'm a two sheet newspaper guy, rolled not crumpled. I roll it loosely, then roll up like a cinnamon roll.

 

I like that. Do you need to oil with this technique?

I bought a bag of Matchlight briquettes a few months ago for some reason, and I've just been using a couple briquettes of that in the bottom of the chimney to start.

 

Works perfectly.

I used to be an oiled newspaper believer, but wasn't liking the paper ash flying around. I started doing oil in paper towels a few months ago and it leaves no ash. We were cleaning out the pantry tonight so I decided to try this. Also no ash from the Doritos. I didn't add any oil. I just lit a corner on each and set the chimney on top of it. Also no black smoke like vegetable oil causes.

 

WHAT! I have never heard of the DORITOS to start a fire. I just watched some on youtube and definitely going to do this next time.

 

No oil. Fritos work very well also.

 

I like. I (use to) use three sheets from weekly circulars. I'll will be giving this a try! Thanks