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Not too bad. There's none left. Was not as tender as I'd have liked, but flavor was very good. Everyone loved it.

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Actually, I went ahead and ordered that thermometer. I had $32 in Amazon.com reward points, so I got it for only $24.

In retrospect, I think I probably used too much charcoal... It was very early in the AM for me. I filled the basket up with a mixture of lump/briquets, whereas when I was seasoning the drum I used probably 1/2 that much and it kept a constant temp for 8 hours at least, before I went to bed. I will l...

And then eat it? Will it pull apart, or should I chop it? Oy... My other R2D2 smoker would never get hot enough and this one is too hot... Guess I need to invest in a separate digital thermometer for the smoker temp.

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OH NO!! At 4 hours, I mopped my butt again and threw on some more rub. I then added the temp probe into the meat (somewhere I read not to do so until after 4 hours...) and it went off crazy beeping saying the temp was 202*!! I thought perhaps it wasn't working correctly because I had tried to use it...

I hate to leave the lid off any longer than I have to! Will get one next time I open her up at 4 hours.

Well, it's been 2 hours on the heat. Just mopped for the first time and added some more rub. Temp. spiked to 300°, and have been trying to get back to 250° for the last 15 min. Has been at 260° for the first 2 hours.

Hopefully by 3 or I'm screwed!

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Hey all. It's bright and early (5am) and I'm prepping my shoulder. I've got a 7 pounder that I ned to be done by 2:30 today so I can take it to a homebrew club meeting. Guess I'll be citing it close!

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OK. When you say a clean cooker is a happy cooker (paraphrasing), how do you go about cleaning your UDS after each use? With my Brinkman R2D2, the only cleaning I ever did was to the grate and the charcoal/water bowls. Should I do more to my UDS?

Progress report. Kept 250* spot on from 4:30-7:30. At 7:30, it had dipped down to around 240* so I took off one of the caps to get some more O2 into it. Went out 30 min later and it was up to 300*... So, I put that cap back on and it was down to 280* about 10 minutes later. Checked 20 min after that...

Sounds good. Holding steady at 250° for the last 35 minutes or so. Has started raining/sleeting now. I've got the UDS under my portico though.

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Shucks! Was supposed to be this pic:
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Even though there's a winter storm coming this evening, I thought I'd get my UDS seasoned. Temp outside right now is 45°, temp inside smoker is just about at 250° after 30-35 minutes of all valves open. I am supposed to to keep the exhaust open, correct? It's supposed to be almost 60° here on Friday...

I got this one http://www.smokerplans.net/index.php?ma ... 3bbd9e1940 from our host I believe? Pretty sure the legs are more than 2" from the bottom of the drum.

So Cowboy good or Cowboy bad?? I bought a big ole bag of it and a bag of Kingsford Original Briquets (is that what you're talking about when you say Kingsford?). Do you blend? I saw in some of ya'lls youtube videos where you fill your charcoal basket up with lump and then hollow out the center (bird...

But my grill grate is only about 12" from the top of my charcoal basket... That's if I completely fill the charcoal basket up with charcoal.

EDIT: I went down and remeasured and I have more like 13" clearance.

I had thought about a diffuser plate anyhow. I actually ordered a 22.5" stainless weber "ash catcher/pan" for next to nothing. I thought perhaps I could drill some 1/2" holes in it and use bolts like I did with my grate. Not sure how far up/down from the charcoal box/grate I should mount it? Halve t...

Everything went fairly smoothly. Had some trouble getting the conduit nuts as tight as I thought they should be. So I just got em as good as I could and filled in the gaps with hi-temp silicone. Didn't need the spacer washers from what I could tell? So didn't use any. Hoping my thermometer placement...

Worked my a$$ off today and here she is:

Actually, it's going to be blue and grey with a really cool stenciled pig face that my daughter drew. Although your idea sounds cool too!

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Don't know what happended to the cell phone pics... Here's the latest from today after spending 3.5 hours on it with the angle grinder and coarse wire cup brush. The outside seems to be ok, but I can't seem to get the inside back to bare silver metal (or do I even need to?). It originally was nice b...

Rainwater. It had just started raining when I took that pic. Now it's all just black.