I thank one and all for the valuable assistance. We have decided not to
do the pork butt as neighbor doesn't want to "babysit" a piece of meat
for that long.

I'd really like to try a brisket, but I understand the logic in doing a
pork butt first to learn just how the smoker works.

I smoke things on a (horrors) gas grill over indirect heat using soaked
chips in a cast iron smoker box. I'm seriously thinking of "liberating"
that smoker from her one of these days ,vbg>
--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
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