Yesterday the cooker got loaded up with a butt and
4 racks of spares. I used some pecan wood to warm
up the cooker and for smoke and then Picnic Lump
for the cooking process.

I have done briskets and ribs (babybacks) before,
but never a butt and never 'real' ribs. Thanks to
the advice that I have been reading on here for
the past (mumble) months everything came out
great. I still need to work on learning the
cooker for fire control and my timing needs some
work, but the meat is all quite tasty.

S&P and some garlic before meat hit the grill and
that was it.

The biggest downside was my not starting things
early enough in the day. The butt didn't finish
until midnight, thankfully I had some ribs to
munch on while I was waiting!

Also because of this group I am the proud owner of
a Food Saver so I have little doubt that all the
meat will be 'safe' until it gets a chance to get
eaten. I also want to take the chance to plug the
TILA customer service folks. They stepped up and
fixed a problem that I had with the first unit
that I bought and I am VERY HAPPY WITH TILA.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for all the
help and I'm looking forward to my first pulled
pork meal.

Kevin