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SmokinDeadhead · Joined: 21 Jun 2011 Posts: 3 Location: Western NY

Hey all..I just received a brand spankin new 18 1/2" WSM for Fathers day (yes, I have the best wife/kids ever) . I've been using a CharGriller Smokin' Pro for the last 5 yrs or so and it's good to finally upgrade!!!
Just one question..What's the max # of St Louis Ribs I can do comfortably on the WSM? And what method works best, using a rack, or coiling them up? I'd like to be able to fit in 10 racks if I can
Anyhow, I broke it in tonight with a couple fatties, hence the pron

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1buckie · Posted: Jun 21 2011 Post subject:

SmokinDeadhead Welcome !!!!

1st Show~~~~~>8/12/72 Sacramento Memorial Aud.

Rippin' Dad's day present !!pics look grate, although a bit large.
re-size to 650 x 480 & the adverts on the right hand side will still show

All I have are kettles (a lot of them !!) so don't know the answers to the quiz,
but there's lots of folks here who will

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Pinkelephant · Posted: Jun 21 2011 Post subject:

1st show. mid 80's, maynor downs horse racing track outside of Austin, TX. it was a 3 day party with anything you can imagine available to party with. the dead heads just came from red rock out west and we spent 3 days listening to the red rock recordings. then we went in for the live show. the couple I was with got split up. I was with the girl and she passed out and I spent the show watching over her. in the end the security picked her up and dumped her outside the gate. she woke up when she hit the ground. I had fun. they didn't. well they had too much fun, I should say.

2nd time was at 6 flags in houston (Astroworld). that was a bunch of wannabe's with crisp, clean tiedye shirts with the creases still in them showing they were just bought. it wasn't the same. maybe the lack of "a higher spiritual trip" was the difference.

I listened to the dead many years before that and never got it. you had to see them live to really get it.
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1buckie · Posted: Jun 21 2011 Post subject:

I got this odd feeling that this thread might range a little wide of "just" BBQ

~~~>K

Jarhead · Posted: Jun 21 2011 Post subject:

Welcome aboard SmokinDeadhead.
I think the only way you will even get close to 10 on it at one time is to coil them. This is on a 22-1/2" UDS and I think I had 12 racks on it, IIRC.

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Big Ron · Posted: Jun 21 2011 Post subject:

rib racks will help. I think I have seen some one get 10 or 12 racks before using them
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SoEzzy · Posted: Jun 21 2011 Post subject:

Please read PMPNLT650pxOTLS!
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mactoo · Posted: Jun 21 2011 Post subject:

Nice work! You can always count on a deadhead to smoke up some nice fatties. What were you listening to while breaking in the new smoker?Blues for Allah, Terrapin Station, Shakedown Street ???

1buckie · Posted: Jun 21 2011 Post subject:

SmokinDeadhead:

This is a reprinted response from The Park Ranger (SoEzzy)
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Posted: Mon May 23 11 9:46 pm Post subject: Re: Weber Smokey Mountain Question

gopens wrote:
Also is there a specific place that all the WSM owners hang out. Thanks for your time.

http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/

What these guys don't know about WSM's can be written on the back of a very small stamp!

Though don't forget us, as lots of the folks on here have them too!

See the link he showed above for photo size stuff (the PMPL,etc one); just curious,
10 racks of ribs for you the wife & the kids, or is there a big party @ your house ??

Dr Obvious · Posted: Jun 21 2011 Post subject:

Welcome to the Ring Deadhead. I'm not a deadhead myself, but I was named Casey Jones by my parents (with a minor change to Joseph, since they are Catholics)...
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MGeslock · Posted: Jun 22 2011 Post subject:

Welcome!

First show was Hampton March 27,1988.

Maybe I should add some Uncle Jerry to my BBQ mix!

Set List:Hampton March 27,1988
Iko Iko
Little Red Rooster
Stagger Lee
Ballad of a Thin Man
Cumberland Blues
Me and My Uncle
To Lay Me Down
Let it Grow

Sugar Magnolia
Scarlet Begonias
Fire on the Mountain
Estimated Prophet
Eyes of the World
drums
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
I Need a Miracle
Dear Mr. Fantasy
Sunshine Daydream

U.S. Blues

SVonhof · Posted: Jun 22 2011 Post subject:

On way to get more room for racks of ribs would be to use racks that hold the ribs vertical (plenty of them around at places like Home Depot or Lowes) or take a roast rack and flip it upside down (as long as there is no bar at the bottom of that rack).

Another thing to do would be buy more 18.5" grills and after dropping in the first grill and loading it up, put in some spacers (empty veggie cans) and then another grill and more racks of ribs and then another grill and more spacers as needed. I am sure you could get 3 grills in there that way, don't know if you could get 4.
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SmokinDeadhead · Joined: 21 Jun 2011 Posts: 3 Location: Western NY

Thanks for all the responses. It's good to see some of the Dead family around. My 1st show was 6-30-88 @ Silver Stadium in Rochester. I got to them a little late, but I still managed to see them about 45 times before we lost Jerry. I moved on and still like to see Phish when I can, but it's just not the same Smile

Pinkelephant · Posted: Jun 22 2011 Post subject:

make 1 or 2 UDS's
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BUGSnBBQ · Posted: Jun 22 2011 Post subject:

Bunch of damn hippies....

I've seen em a few times, but the best show ever been to was at UNLV Stadium in '90 (91?) when Santana was the opening band and played for over 2 hours, then the Dead played for another 3+ hours. Chemicals included. Was good times, but now I'm getting a bit too old for that kinda stuff Wink

And like Jarhead suggested, try coiling them up.
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1buckie · Posted: Jun 22 2011 Post subject:

BUGSnBBQ said:
Bunch of damn hippies....
Yeah, well, we probably resemble that remark !!!

& SVonhof wrote:
put in some spacers (empty veggie cans) and then another grill and more racks of ribs and then another grill

That's the thing I saw the other day that somebody did & worked grate
(PS: take out both ends so your smoke will flow thru)

SmokinDeadhead, you got responses from some of the cream of the crop of the usual suspects here.....
.... there's 100's of folks that really know their stuff
Enjoy the ride..................