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Greetings brethren: this is my first post. I normally do all my smoking on an Akorn Chargriller. I now have a new smoker I picked up to handle larger volume cooks. It is a wide body dyna glo offset vertical smoker. During my first seasoning I was able to get up to temp 270+, but after that I...

I just finished my UDS last week. I'm brand new to smoking. I have 3 1" holes about 2" from the bottom and 8 1/4" exhaust vents in the lid. I use ceramic magnets to cover the vents. My thermometer is just below the grill and is about 2" long. I've read that the outside of the barrel tends to be...

I’ve spent a fair amount of time reading the posts here over the last year or so, and have used quite a few of the ideas given herein rehabbing my old New Braunfels offset smoker. The problem with the old gal was temperature control – typically keeping temperature uniform and low enough. So...