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Welcome to the forum Derek! Nice buy! You'll love your new toy.

Good luck & Have fun

Another Welcome.. Derek. Hope you have as much success and fun as I've had with my 008. I'll be ordering an AQ in the next few weeks to add to me arsonel I could certainly use it today.

Take advantage of the older posts in the archives. There is a ton of info and it's pretty dern good.

Happy New Year.

Thanks Alot. I will be cooking my first Pork Butt ever (I mean ever, never have cooked one) on Saturday. This fourm is so great. I have written down a ton of info. I think for my first Butt I will go with smokinokie's rub, mop, etc.. from pork butt 101. (He seams to be well seasonded) I do have one question. I got the Taylor meat themometer from Target. Do I jab the whole probe in to the 90 degree part? Or do I just put the first part in? Sorry if this is a redundent question for you vets, but I am 30 years old and I am like a kid in a candy store with this cooker. I will post pics and info of my first Pork Butt smoke.

You'll want to make sure the probe is in to about the center of the Butt, not touching bone (or in a fat pocket). I thread the meat probe down through the smoke hole on top. Good luck with your smoke- you're in for some good eats!

Derek -- No need to mop. This is a very moist smoker. Mopping means opening the door and you really don't want to do that unless absolutely necessary. Resist the temptation!

Make your first smoke as simple as possible and build from there. Keep note on everything you do so you tweek if necessary next time.

Looking forward to your report and pics.

Good luck!

Yea, if you think you gotta mop, do so before the meat goes in the smoker, then after you take it out.