First use of WSM

[kendoll]

Well I got to try my 'new to me' WSM on the weekend. Set it up and off I went.



First cook was some simple chicken wings for dinner Saturday. Sprinkled with Ployboys Yardbird and smoked with hicklory. (sorry no pics)

I had a few problems controlling the temp (not as easy as I had been expecting - was using heatbeads) but I was too excited to let that stop me.

So after the wings were off I thought I would take advantage of the fact that I seemed to have the temp relatively under control.

So I threw on a pork neck (again covered in plowboys).

Managed to get the temps under control enough to get 4-5 hours sleep so I was happy.

Here is the pork neck nearly ready to come off (got to 203F after about 14 hours), threw on some ABT's (sprinkled with Bad Byrons Butt Rub - i just like saying that) to cook while the pork was resting in the esky.



ABT's were great!



Pork pulled/shredded really easily and had great smoke ring and bark



Plated with some homemade coleslaw and a couple of different sauces (Rendezvous and Luling's) - obviously used the fine china



Fantastic results on the WSM, need to get in some more practice. Cooking for grand final weekend this long weekend and then for a friends 40th in Nov.

Ken

[1buckie]

 Awright !!!

Pawk 'n' 'Turds !!!!


Looks really grand....esp for the very 1st run......


I borrowed your 1st picture for use in Craig's thread about ill-fitting Smokey Joe legs.....I think I finally figured out why people do that with the legs........the WSM sits up high on the same shaped legs, maybe they get confused by that.......

[Chasing_smoke]

Great job breaking in the wsm! Looks fantastic ken!