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    Tried some ribs and a chicken on new smoker with all wood two very different taste

    Thanks for all of the help guys i am firing up the smoker this weekend again and trying again i hope things go better for me this time
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    Tried some ribs and a chicken on new smoker with all wood two very different taste

    i also preheated the wood did not put the meat on until i had TBS and would creosote still form if i put foil over the top of the ribs im confused
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    Tried some ribs and a chicken on new smoker with all wood two very different taste

    my smoker has three different vents two on the lid and one on the bottom of the smoking chamber opposite the firebox and i had them all wide open the whole time is this forever going to remain a mystery that i will only be able to pull off LOL
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    Tried some ribs and a chicken on new smoker with all wood two very different taste

    No my smoker does not look like that my smoker is on the sams club website and its a charcoal wagon smoker and grill and it is a all wood burning smoker not a charcoal smoker at all like i said would post a picture but have no idea how. could this have happened because the temp difference on...
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    Tried some ribs and a chicken on new smoker with all wood two very different taste

    i had thin blue smoke and the wood was a 1:3 ratio of hickory and apple and both slabs of ribs were covered with foil and i have a smoke hollow smoker and grill i would upload a pic but dont know how to sorry. and any answer as to why ceosote would form on one and not the other
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    How windy is too windy?

    Just Friday i smoked in 25-30 mile an hour winds gusting up to 35 and had great success. only a tornado or a hurricane is windy enough to stop a smoke like mentioned above
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    Tried some ribs and a chicken on new smoker with all wood two very different taste

    Just yesterday i smoked two racks of ribs with the 3-2-1 method and a whole chicken. one rack of ribs and the chicken turned out great (sorry no q-view dont have a working camera). The other rack of ribs however when you bit into them made your tounge and mouth tingle. i covered both racks of...
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    smoking wood and taste

    I am smoking on a smoke hollow grill and smoker and i am using 1:3 ratio of hickory and apple good seasoned wood that i got from Ree's Fruit Farm in Topeka KS. thanks for all the info
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    smoking wood and taste

    i am going to try smoking with all wood this weekend and am wondering when i refuel during a long smoke should i worry about any creosote build up or any bad taste or should i just put the logs in thanks for the help
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    Need Help!!!!!!!!!!!!

    i have no idea why but i put a chimney of lump in over the top of the rest of the bag and could not get temps over 150 and i can do the dry runs without any kind of wood
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    Need Help!!!!!!!!!!!!

    i used ten pounds of coals and there was no metal piece to knock out at all it came open and i called the manufacturer and they said that i should use about five sticks of wood over charcoal because it puts out more BTU's with the open flame than any hot coal will is this true
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    Need Help!!!!!!!!!!!!

    i had thought about that myself but i have nowhere to cut the wood from and no way to haul it i would love to cut my own wood and reduce cost that would be great. i also dont know about how long it has to season for
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    Need Help!!!!!!!!!!!!

    ok and where do you get your split hardwoods. i can find no place in small concordia kansas to get split wood. the town only has 5000 people know anywhere to get good wood thanks
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    Need Help!!!!!!!!!!!!

    yeah my vents are open and when you say use split wood are you talking about wood logs 12 inches long or are you talking smaller than that
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    Need Help!!!!!!!!!!!!

    yeah i have checked it against the two other thermometers that i have and they are all saying the same thing. when the lump charcoal was burning the side firebox was so hot i could not touch it at all because it was so hot but i still could not get the temperature above 150 degrees in the...
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