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    First Pork Butt ?s

    Sorry, the word 'ask' should be 'all'.  When you take tougher cut of meat and cook it slowly, the meat fibers don't cook before the connective tissues have had a chance to 'melt' away.  With the connective tissues rendered out it is much more tender.  If you were cook your butt rapidly, it...
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    Smokin' on Folly Beach, SC

    Looks great! I love the cutting board too, where did you get that?
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    Mule's question of what to do with points!

    Awesome! I always waste mine on candy!
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    First Pork Butt ?s

    Looks like it's moving along. Ask the connective tissue is rendering out during your stall. This is why low and slow can make cuts like shoulder so tender. Keep smokin!
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    Bacon lottery

    It's real, but you have to drive to Indiana to buy a bacon flavored lottery ticket. Winner gets 20 years of bacon and $10k. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/theres-a-lottery-in-which-the-prize-is-a-20year-supply-of-bacon-10300649.html
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    Mule's question of what to do with points!

    Awesome! I always waste mine on candy
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    Smokin' on Folly Beach, SC

    Welcome aboard! Looking forward to pics of your Q
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    New Smoker

    Congrats on the mes! I have an electric also, I wish it was an mes, they seem a ton more reliable.
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    First Pork Butt ?s

    There's a million answers to that, which is what makes it such an art. The biggest thing for me is to add small amounts of wood consistently, not large amounts all at once and don't starve out for air. If you have a too much fuel you'll have to choose between it being too hot or staving it...
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    First Pork Butt ?s

    Welcome to the obsession! Looks like you got plenty of advice so I won't chime in other that to say welcome and good luck! Butts are very forgiving, you'll do great!
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    Smoking Time

    I got one recently and absolutely love it.
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    Pastrami

    Looks Awesome :points:
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    Smoking Time

    Do yourself a favor and keep a log so next time with the same meat you have a good predictor. As the others have said it's done when the thermometer says it's done.
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    New cooker losing all heat out of chimney

    Any way you can lower the input point of the chimney will help a lot.
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    Ideal moisture content for stick burners

    Wow monkey, that's a stack of sticks! I used charcoal just to get things going then used mostly oak because it is readily available, but I would mix in Apple wood when I got my hands on it. I also threw a smoulder box with different flavored pellets in it. No right answer experimenting is...
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