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Welcome Si,

How did the cook go?

As a newbie myself, I did my first cook (a pork butt/shoulder) without a leave in thermometer.
I had no problem. Quite a forgiving cut of meat anyway and despite my smokey mountain not holding the same temperature throughout the cook the pulled pork was delicious.

You should be fine wihtout one ...

Thanks Alan,
That was more or less my thinking as I don't think it'll all fit on at once! haha I thought I'd be OK having bought the biggest WSM available, but just 3 cooks in and I'm already short on cooking space!

I wasn't planning on wrapping either the brisket or the pork during their cooks ...

HI everyone,

Having done a couple of smaller cooks on my new Weber Smokey Mountain (52cm) that I got about a month ago. Both cooks were pork butts (first to season the WSM, the second was for a boxing day party when I smoked 3 butts at once).

With both these cooks having been a great success ...

Hi all, new member here. Looking into woods to smoke with. My dad has a large log outdoor pile and often comes across various types of wood.
If he has some oak or similar hard wood ideal for smoking and it’s just been left to dry naturally for a long time (on his covered, but open sided log store ...

HI everyone! Been lurking on here the last year or two after learning about smokers and their benefits over traditional basic BBQ's.
Having watched countless youtube videos and reading so many forum threads I decided a WSM was going to be for me!!
I'd planned to buy one in the next year or two and ...