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Showerthought: my $30 kettle beat my $400 offset on ribs and I'm still mad about it
Fired up both cookers in the backyard in Amarillo on Saturday, ran the same spares side by side for 5 hours, and the cheap kettle turned out better bark and a cleaner smoke ring. The offset fought me all day, temp swings from 225 to 300, while the kettle just sat there humming along at 250 like it had a job to do. Has anyone else gotten shown up by their cheap backup cooker, or is my fire management just that bad on the stick burner?
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the_wren9d ago
Sounds more like operator error than the offset being bad, honestly. Stick burners need small hot fires and constant attention, not the set it and forget it thing a kettle gives you. Give that offset six months of practice and the kettle won't even be close on ribs.
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