Hi all.
I've been trying to cook some ribs today on my OTP and have for the first time used my new maverick ET733. I wanted a good 6 hours so thought Id have another go at trying to use the snake method. I built the snake on 2 briquettes deep x 2 high, in a sort of brick-bond pattern. It all started off well with with about a dozen lit coals added. For the first couple of hours it ran at about 235f with the bottom vent at around 50%, but then the temp seem to drop away fairly quickly to the 180f mark. I thought snake may have broken so had a gentle poke around but all looked ok. After opening the vent the temps recovered and then started to go high.
I just wondered, is there a better more reliable way than the snake or is this just a ' feature' of the kettle ?
Cheers
Paul.