My first smoke in my first UDS build

[Fooldancing]

I have been working on a UDS here and there for a couple of weeks. It's finally finished so I decided to smoke some chicken thighs for it's first run. I am happy with how it worked and turned out. My lid does leak smoke a little bit.
After they were done in the UDS, I threw them on the grill to sear the skin. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180611/e8e2a660eeda8e29f8c13d78185de0c0.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180611/6288def83c0e39246d0cc5971458ea11.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180611/a43e2ca4c14de40b9235c98451c397a6.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180611/82b1bb310c91c2de4145bf0541d1b9de.jpg

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[wihint]

Looks like a winner brother! Thank you for sharing.

[Stingerhook]

Nice looking cooker and yardbird.

[WilliamKY]

Looks great. Dont worry about that leak. Enough soot and it will eventually seal up. Even if it doesn't it's an overblown pet peeve, imo. Nice work.

[Blythewood BBQ'er]

Nuthin wrong with that!

[el luchador]

congrats on building a winning cooker.

put something heavy on the lid and that will reduce or eliminate the leaking

[Fooldancing]

I'm pretty new to the whole smoking thing, so your support is great. Thank you all.

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[KevinJ]

Great looking cooker and cook and as said above the lid will seal up after a few cooks, plus smoke has to go somewhere and if your temp control is where you want it you're golden.

[ronbrad62]

Nice way to break it in. Very nice looking UDS.

[SmittyJonz]

:thumb:

[JEStucker]

Great looking drum, you should get many years of great cooks from that!