How much wood for a 6.5lb pork butt on MES?

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dalba

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Feb 5, 2012
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Just put my first butt in the smoker. Need some help please. How much wood should I use? What intervals should I add more wood?
 
A palm full of chips at a time is plenty. as long as you can smell the smoke you are smoking , That said , when i used chips, i was adding a palm full every 45 min or so.

 Check into the AMNPS. You can get 8 - 10 hrs of smoke from one fill.
 
So do you keep smoking for the whole cook time or just the first few hours. I have an AMNPS but it would always burn out even with chip loader halfway out so I stopped using it for now.
 
if i have meat in the smoker it is getting smoke.
 
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