Although he is one of the most popular BBQ smoker of all time, the Weber Smokey Mountain is surprisingly one of those that are used most often misused.

With a few simple steps you can learn how to get to grips with your Weber smoker, and it will make your life with this great smoking pleasure, as you improve in your kitchen style and see the quality of the food you order can generate.

First, you will want to start your Weber smoker with a chimney starter and add flavored wood chips to the external antenna area and let them mounds of earth to So they sit an inch or so over it.

A BBQ, lighter than the wax variety, can in most hardware stores around which they are used in the open with good results by the lighting. In half an hour or so, your smoking to cooking temperature.

The temperature at which you are cooking as a matter of choice, go depending on what foods you to cook and want to use which method you.

Temperature setting as the Weber smoker to run around 240 degrees is a good starting point, and open the bottom vents open during the 120 minutes along with the Top-Vent, which should be set to the open position.

Thus, this will help to keep the internal temperature of the smoker, and your location advantage temperatures are particularly extreme, you should not be on the air vents not move while smoking.

If you are cooking large joints of meat as a beef brisket when it comes to adding the next batch of charcoal, take the lid of the funnel and shake it comes off well, to ensure that the residue is below the grate on the left. To ensure that your personal safety, it is recommended that you wear gloves oven, to ensure that you will not suffer burns, as the chimney is able to reach extremely high temperatures.

Now that you begin to ready to quit smoking, you can now introduce water to your smoker Weber, adding very hot water to the water bowl.

Now you can a medium sized piece of your favorite hardwood on the heap and add these, you can leave the smoker for several hours, so you can be doing other things.

To lower the Weber smoker temperature to “low-and-slow”, you can remove the lid of the smoker and move it a few times on it base to be careful not lead to the legs. This will radiate the heat and leave the cooking area, and then you should replace the cover, the act of smoking. You can use the holes as you see fit, in order to stabilize the temperature to your liking.

If you need to make your Weber Smokey Mountain to a higher temperature, simply slide the lid over, there is a small opening. This will allow air to circulate and the temperature increase efficiency significantly.

Be careful if you use this, as the temperature can increase very quickly, so be sure to check frequently on the temperature gauge, about every 10 minutes or so initially sufficient.

For best performance and keep your Weber Smoker clean at the same time, the grids and bowl, removing the larger pieces just scrub residue. You do not want to completely clean the grids or bowl, a quick brush is over ideal.

When you are finished with your Weber Smokey Mountain, closed the air vents and you can observe that there are many pieces of wood left inside. These are run for the storage and use of fire, or reuse in your ideal Weber smoker next time.

It is worthwhile to purchase a high quality pair of thermal gloves, so you can safely operate and move the smoking during use and transportation.

Adding an accurate temperature reading to your Weber Smokey Mountain is a functional and worthwhile investment and easy DIY project. To install a temperature gauge you need is simply to drill a suitable sized hole in the upper air, or in the lid, and locate the meter and install it using the supplied nut.