First Last meal ribs

[gardenfish]

That does look as perfect as it could be. Nicely done! I love the bark color and those sliced ribs are beeeeuteeeful! The key to good food pics is not only good food obviously but good camerawork, and you did good here on both counts.


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Thank you so much. Cameras are my second life. I love taking pictures.

[fzxdoc]

Congrats, gardenfish , on a great cook! Those ribs look perfect!

Kathryn

[Ernest]

gardenfish I'm curious why you tinker with the vents when it goes just a few degrees off 225?

[gardenfish]

The couple times I moved the vents the temp was what I thought to be either steadily dropping or steadily rising so I wanted to stop that from happening and stay as close to 225° as possible. The temp went higher or lower than what I posted when I changed the vents but changing brought the temps back in the right direction before the next log entry. Hope that makes sense.

Rick

[Ernest]

Aright. I used to do that way back when but I stopped. I only mess with them if temp seems to dip below 200 or going past 275. Once I stopped I noticed that I rarely go higher than 250.
I only asked because unless you're running a stick burner, don't stress too much trying to keep it at 225.

[gardenfish]

On my 6 pork shoulder smokes I did exactly as you say. I noticed most of the time it went to around 250° or so, a couple times to 275°. Then after a few hrs it dropped and when it got to 210° I either opened vents or added more lit coals or both. This was my first run on ribs and I wanted to see how close to 225° I could stay and for how long with minimal effort. I only moved the vents 2-3 times in the 6 hrs and I think that is minimal.

This was more of a test while I cooked the ribs for future smokes. I want to cook my first brisket as close to one temp as possible. Next rib smoke I will probably do the same with just 1/2 hr log temps and then the next time probably 1 hr log temps.

This was the first time I actually counted the bricketts and it was interesting and a great learn for me on how my smoker works. This is the 2nd smoke I think I have done since putting on the gasket kit and I am finding it is easier to maintain the lower temp with the vents. Before the gaskets and with the leaks in the WSM I found that vents didnt hep me control temps as much as I wanted.