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Weber Smokey Mountain Smoker Setup

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Excellent article on setting up a Weber Smokey Mountain Smoker from Amazing Ribs . There are a number of bullet-shaped charcoal smokers out there and they are pretty easy to use. The best is the Weber Smokey Mountain (WSM) which now comes in three sizes. Seasoning and calibrating your smoker with dry runs The first thing to do after you assemble your new grill or smoker is to season it and calibrate it by doing a few dry runs without food. This will burn off any manufacturer's grease, and give you a sense for how to set it up to hit the two important target temps that almost all my recipes use: 225°F and 325°F. Of course, in order to do this, you absolutely positively must have a good digital oven thermometer. I don't care how much you spent, the bi-metal dial thermometer that came with it is cheap and unreliable and likely to be off by as much as 50°F. Worse still, it is in the dome, and the temp down on the grate where the meat sits is much different. Like a musician,

How much charcoal to use

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How much charcoal to use? A very simplistic way to discuss how much charcoal to add is based on how much you fill the charcoal chimney. You can imagine that filling the chimney 25% full will yield less heat than a chimney that is filled up 100%. To expand on this, here is my general rule of thumb for cooking various items at various heats using Kingsford charcoal: For a low heat (think tender white fish, or for using the coals to light a smoker) – fill the chimney 25% full For a medium heat (burgers, brats etc.) – fill the chimney 50% full For a medium high heat, or for a full grill of medium heat (think of more spread out charcoal in the grill) fill the chimney 75% full For a high heat (grilling and searing steaks) – fill the chimney 100% full Now clearly there are a lot of factors going on here. How you spread out the coals plays a major factor in the heat your grill experiences. If you dump a 50% full medium heat charcoal chimney in one spot and don’t spread it out, you will

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