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Jan 6 • Drum Smoking
Before You Touch the Vents: Run This Pitmaster Checklist
If your pit temps are bouncing all over the place, we put together a quick pitmaster checklist you can run before you start blaming your smoker.
The big rule (and the one that saves the most cooks): make one adjustment at a time, then wait 10–15 minutes to see what it actually did.
Inside the full checklist, we will walk you through the fixes in order—
- Starting with thermometer accuracy (lid gauges can be off 20–50°F)
- Proper probe placement at grate level, airflow/vent tweaks
- Checking for leak
- Clearing ash
- Fuel quality
- Even the two sneaky culprits: lid-checking and weather/wind.
Click through and save it—this is the one you’ll want pulled up the next time your cook starts getting weird:
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Before You Touch the Vents: Run This Pitmaster Checklist
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