va_connoisseur
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- Joined
- Aug 11, 2008
- Location
- DC Metro
Greetings All,
I am looking to construct my first UDS and have a few novice builder questions...
1. What method do you all find to be the most accurate at taking at the grate temps? I have heard of the probe in the potato trick but are there others.
2. I have seen a couple of design for the UDS but none seem to have legs, does the bottom of the barrel not char the ground? (yeah, real novice questions but I am a Brinkmann Vertical Smoker guy, and that things has legs)
3. Due to the rigid/airtight confines, these rigs hold the temps real well and for hours, however I have noticed most people cook with standard charcoal and not lumps or wood chunks. Is it because the latter burns too hot and/or fast?
And I have read the several hundred posts on this forum and a couple of other and did not see the answers to these questions. Thanks in advance for your help. And once the barrel arrives, there will be "construction porn". :-D Hmmm, new term, maybe I should coin it. LOL
I am looking to construct my first UDS and have a few novice builder questions...
1. What method do you all find to be the most accurate at taking at the grate temps? I have heard of the probe in the potato trick but are there others.
2. I have seen a couple of design for the UDS but none seem to have legs, does the bottom of the barrel not char the ground? (yeah, real novice questions but I am a Brinkmann Vertical Smoker guy, and that things has legs)
3. Due to the rigid/airtight confines, these rigs hold the temps real well and for hours, however I have noticed most people cook with standard charcoal and not lumps or wood chunks. Is it because the latter burns too hot and/or fast?
And I have read the several hundred posts on this forum and a couple of other and did not see the answers to these questions. Thanks in advance for your help. And once the barrel arrives, there will be "construction porn". :-D Hmmm, new term, maybe I should coin it. LOL