Snake method

[Joetee]

In a 22 inch kettle, how many briquettes stacked in a snake for low n slow of 225°?
Would that be 2/1, 2/2, or 3/2/1 etc?
Thank you

[Nate]

Dude just buy a slow n sear

[Joetee]

I have one. It works great. But it's just about out at 6 1/2 hours. I need to cook for about 8+ hours without having to add more charcoal.

[Nate]

Then what Jerod said.

[Jerod Broussard]

I think I did 2 x 2....been a while since I snaked.

[Jerod Broussard]

If you can get your hands on some B & B Briquets they will last about 15 hours.

[JeffJ]

I smoked pork butt last Friday for 10 hours. At the 6 hour mark I added unlit coals after knocking off the ash. That simply caused to fire to reverse directions. That's one of the things I love about kettle-smoking - adding coal is a breeze.

[Tony law]

I use 2x1 in my 26" for 225°

[Buck Flicks]

Last weekend, I smoked some ribs with regular KBB in my 22 with SnS. The ribs were done after 4 hours, but I had only used about 1/2 the fuel in the SnS. I left them going just to see how long it would maintain temps after I took the ribs out and it was still holding 230 after 7 total hours, with no added fuel.

If I wanted to go longer, easy enough to wrangle all the lit coals into one corner, and fill up the rest of the SnS with unlit coals like Jeff J said, and it'd go another 5 or 6 easy, probably more.

[grantgallagher]

Before i got the SnS i used 2x2 snake all the time. Worked pretty well

[JoeSousa]

I usually go with a 2x2 when I want to hit 225. You should easily be able to get 12 hours out of that if you go 2/3s or 3/4s of the way around the kettle. But all depends on ambient temperature, wind, amount of meat, if you use a water pan, and other factors like that.

[LA Pork Butt]

2 wide and 2 high started with 12 lit coals is the way I have done it.

[Joetee]

Thank you everyone