My last few cooks I had the devil of a time managing temps in my Weber 22 with SNS. That's really not happened to me before, except for the early days when I was learning how to manage temps for the first time. There was one change, and that was I began using cherry wood chunks, which I'd never used before. I had a sneaking suspicion that the cherry was the culprit. This morning I started a cook using apple, and I've been at 235 for 2.5 hrs without touching the vents one time. Is it even possible that my temp management issues have been due to the cherry wood chunks?
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The wood will have an impact, but I don’t expect it to totally throw your cook off.Comment
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Interesting thought. Did you use more or less cherry than apple? Was the ambient temp similar for each cook? The PBC folks say wood can affect the temps, but I have yet to notice that effect in my PBC. I've never noticed or seen it with the SnS in my WSCGC.
I feel like offering to bake a cake for the person who solves this puzzle.
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I notice a significant change in temps when my wood is cooking and a notable drop when my wood has finished burning, so yes, I think it is possible, depending on how significant your temp variance was.Comment
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richinlbrg I think I don't notice much of a temperature change quite so much because I start the wood burning during the lighting process before I start really monitoring temps.
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In the interest of getting a cake from Kathryn, lol (my youngest daughters middle name, btw) I think my problems may have simply resulted from over thinking. I wanted to preburn the cherry as much as I could to avoid acrid smoke on the meat. The cherry is so dense and I think I changed my routine. I like science, but sometimes your gut has to be obeyed. Today's cook with the apple was just doing what I do (although I did forget the drip pan, which means I have a serious kettle cleanup later.) Sorry for all the parentheses. I've had a few today.Comment
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Well on the note of parentheses, you only used two. I wouldn’t consider that overindulgent, although the second one was of an interesting length. Pensive one might think versus out of grammatically control (hows that for a sentence). A further question would be, what really is your daughter’s middle name, cake? Hmm. And, as far as the clean up, if it’s not to bad, I usually move my SnS around (or the coals) to burn it off (then it’s only ash).
Hey, I managed to surpass you in the use of parenthesis. I feel good & haven’t had a few (or any).
Anything is possible, well almost, sorta, ya know what I mean.Comment
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New use for fruitcake, lighter cubes. LOL
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My temps were all over the place with my 22†kettle and SnS on Sunday. It’s the first time they have done that since my first cook with the SnS. They shot up to 297 at one point and as low as 199. I was having a heck of a time with them. I was also using a big chunk of cherry along with some hickory. I usually use hickory and Apple. Once the wood burned off late in the cook (around 6 or 7 hours) the temps stayed steady. You may be on to something with the cherry.Comment
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