70monte
is Blowin Smoke!
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2017
- Location
- Aurora, Mo
I decided to cook a slab of St. Louis style ribs the other day and decided I had time to do the cook with all wood.
I had some bags of wood that I had gotten at the local grocery store and some of the B&B wood from Academy. The wood from the local store were mini splits about 7.5-8" long and a little bigger around than a soda can.
I got a full chimney of lump going and used that as my base and then added two of the mini splits on it. The temps went up to about 269 before I put the ribs on. My lower vent was all the way open and the upper vent was about 3/4 open. I would put two new splits on about every 45 minutes to an hour and when the temp would drop to the high 230's to low 240's.
I had a couple of times where after putting the splits on, the wood would not catch fire very well and I had to open the door for several minutes before it would catch and the temps would only get about 248 or so before dropping down. My coal base was probably not as big as it needed to be. I finally started leaving the upper vent all the way open as well and at one point put an extra split on the pile to try and get the ribs done.
The total cook took almost 7 hours but the ribs turned out excellent.
I had some bags of wood that I had gotten at the local grocery store and some of the B&B wood from Academy. The wood from the local store were mini splits about 7.5-8" long and a little bigger around than a soda can.
I got a full chimney of lump going and used that as my base and then added two of the mini splits on it. The temps went up to about 269 before I put the ribs on. My lower vent was all the way open and the upper vent was about 3/4 open. I would put two new splits on about every 45 minutes to an hour and when the temp would drop to the high 230's to low 240's.
I had a couple of times where after putting the splits on, the wood would not catch fire very well and I had to open the door for several minutes before it would catch and the temps would only get about 248 or so before dropping down. My coal base was probably not as big as it needed to be. I finally started leaving the upper vent all the way open as well and at one point put an extra split on the pile to try and get the ribs done.
The total cook took almost 7 hours but the ribs turned out excellent.