Just got my first smoker

[MileHighGrowler]

(12-22-2020, 08:08 PM)Wyche Wrote: When I do 2-2-1, I lay pats of butter on the foil, then a little honey, the cover all of that liberally with one of the pork rubs I make..  lay the rack face down on the foil. They're almost like candy. 

One of these days I'm going to try that.  I just love the ones I make so much I never want to experiment!  

I will say, there is something so amazing about taking a piece of meat, some fire and ending up with awesome food.  It's so simple, yet it's an art to get it juuuust right.  I love it.  And I also love swapping ideas with other people.  I've got a couple of guys here locally I enjoy smoking with, staying up all night drinking whisky and talking and sharing some great food.  

I just picked up a crap ton of oak and and a half crap ton of cherry so now there's nothing to do but decided what I'm going to smoke next week! 

I've never tried a gravity smoker, but they've always intrigued me.  It's funny all those bells and whistles always make me second-guess.  I brew beer, and I use gravity.  It's all manual, a lot of checking and moving.  There are fully electric systems where you can dial in the temps and pump from one vessel to another.  I've thought about it, but then I wonder if it will take some of the magic out of it when I just push a button and it does all the work for me.  But then I've been brewing for over a decade and it just takes so much time and I want to enjoy the end product more than the process.  So I clearly am indecisive and can't figure out what I want