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Thanks Simon, I hope the weather holds for a bit now, so I can get some use out of it.

Well it seemed too good a chance to let slip, what with the Sun being out.
So Sunday morning, I got up at seven, lit the coals at eight and had the meat in by nine.
It was only going to be a couple of friends we invited over to try it out and see what they thought. Turned out to be nine, as the ...

Iam not sure what the dimensions are, but that is not going to hold a lot of fuel. I suspect you would need something with sides at least twice the height in relation to the base size.
After last weekend, I used about half a basket, and that kept going for around ten hours.
I don't think one that's ...

Paper back ordered for my birthday.
Thanks for the heads up.

@aris.
I was going to have a water bowl, but having read on here about the clay pot idea I went and got one of them. It's a fit and forget job, no messing about with water.
A lot of the guy's report no difference in the moisture level of the end product, but as this is it's first go, I will have to ...

Well I have to admit, Iam not disappointed. OK Iam a bit the ribs were a bit dry, but the chuck was good. But for a first go it wasn't too traumatic.
I have leaned a lot about how NOT to mess with the air vents, the Maverick is a blinding bit of kit, and I can only get better with it from here on.
I ...

I think you might want to rephrase that question!

The rib rack I made was probably a bit too enthusiastic, the Baby backs fall out of it, it's too big. But then it will do nice fat spare ribs OK.
Here it is half way through.

You shouldn't get any flame, unless there's way too much air getting in. That's the point of controlling the air tightly by the lever valves or other methods. That's how the smoke is produced,from smoldering wood, rather than a fire.
That way you allow it enough air to burn at the rate which gives ...

OK, looks good, but it ain't working that well. When the food went in, it has slowly dropped the temp, and it's not recovering.
So I have put another hole in the back of the drum, this has increased airflow, and it is picking back up nicely. I'll see what it's doing in half an hour.

@ Aris. I do ...