On Sun, 30 May 2010 18:47:55 -0700 (PDT), Cam >
wrote:

>On May 30, 5:33*pm, Denny Wheeler >
>wrote:
>> Sweetie (Desideria) and I moved into a house together a couple weeks
>> ago. *I got myself a WSM this week, assembled it this morning--and
>> there's charcoal and wood in it now, about to be ribs and chicken too!
>>
>> Wooohooo!
>
>Well played. I bought a WSM months after I moved in with my sweetie. I
>wish I had been as quick as you.

Well, I had a MasterBuilt 7-in-1 gas/charcoal bullet. For Q, just
about had to run it on gas, but for grilling, only charcoal would give
useful temps. It wasn't bad--I turned out some fairly good food using
it. When I went to prep it for the move, I found that the convection
plate (doubles as charcoal pan) was just about rusted through. Looked
like the unit had a few more cooks in it, but no more. Gave it to
next door neighbor, having shown her what the problem was, and the
next day she made some PP on it, and reported to me that it was all
good.

So today's cook removed an illusion I had. I had thought I knew what
a good rib was. Nope. NOW I know.

The chicken was outstanding, the ribs better. And this was almost
completely naked meat--kosher salt on the skin side of the chicken
halves, S&P on the ribs.

I already know one mod I want to make on the WSM, though. Handles on
the middle section. Lifting that--including the pan of sand, not
water--off to add one more chimney worth of lump was not a lot of fun,
just using the upper lip as a gripping place.

I dislike the idea of drilling through the enamel, but I see no other
way to add handles. Making 'em won't be a problem--draw 'em up in
SolidWorks and then laser-cut them, have 'em formed on one of our many
press brakes and there I am. Hmmmm... high-temp RTV caulk around the
holes once the handles are on? Might be the way to go.