Hi, I have just finished my first PP on the Genesis, roughly following the recipe on the site.
I did it maybe 5 times on my old Q2200, and it was never easy: The temp was not easily taken down to 225°, so the meat was always in danger. On the other hand, the smoker box down in the basement had trouble getting warm.
I have used a stainless-steel-bowl with some water and a stainless-grate in the bowl to create a two-zone-setup, but it always suffered from the issues mentioned above.
Now, with the Genesis, it comes down to this:
1.) Put smoker box on the two flavouriser-bars on the left.
2.) Start the left burner, turn it fully up until the smoke starts. Turn the right burner on minimum so the grate is at least a little warm.
3.) Wait for smoke to build and mount the bbq-sensor of the maverick.
4.) Turn off the right burner, turn the left burner to minimum, wait for the temperature to fall below.
5.) When temp is below 250°, put pork on right grate
6.) Watch the temp for 15 minutes.
I had to adjust after one hour, because 250° were reached again.
I hit my personal favourite core temp after 11.5 hours with about 5 pounds of PP. The family loved it, and I was much less busy than in the past :-)
No water-maintenance, no issues with the smoker-box. Good meat, and it would have been possible to mount thrice the amount of meat on the grate :-)
Regards,
Detlev
I did it maybe 5 times on my old Q2200, and it was never easy: The temp was not easily taken down to 225°, so the meat was always in danger. On the other hand, the smoker box down in the basement had trouble getting warm.
I have used a stainless-steel-bowl with some water and a stainless-grate in the bowl to create a two-zone-setup, but it always suffered from the issues mentioned above.
Now, with the Genesis, it comes down to this:
1.) Put smoker box on the two flavouriser-bars on the left.
2.) Start the left burner, turn it fully up until the smoke starts. Turn the right burner on minimum so the grate is at least a little warm.
3.) Wait for smoke to build and mount the bbq-sensor of the maverick.
4.) Turn off the right burner, turn the left burner to minimum, wait for the temperature to fall below.
5.) When temp is below 250°, put pork on right grate
6.) Watch the temp for 15 minutes.
I had to adjust after one hour, because 250° were reached again.
I hit my personal favourite core temp after 11.5 hours with about 5 pounds of PP. The family loved it, and I was much less busy than in the past :-)
No water-maintenance, no issues with the smoker-box. Good meat, and it would have been possible to mount thrice the amount of meat on the grate :-)
Regards,
Detlev
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