During my last two or three cooks, I have noticed that the chamber temperature on my Smokette has been higher during the first part of the cook, and lower during the later part. There's the normal temp swings as the element turns on or off, but, in general, after those swings are averaged out, the temps seem to be higher at the beginning. For example, during a 6 hour cook the other day, for the first three hours or so, the chamber temp (as measured by the smoker probe on my Maverick mounted on the middle shelf with the little clippy thing) was around 230 or so average (Smokette was set for 225). During the last three hours, it averaged around 210 degrees. Could the higher temps in the beginning be due to the wood burning?
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