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Thank you, I've had some time to get a few cooks under my belt and taking the advice from @skewbertoescobaresq2327 if I keep my bottom vents all the way shut and top all the way open, then usually it will sit around 225 with very little fiddling on my part. As he pointed out the bro n sear does take up more room and limits the cooking chamber but I think i might be able to shrink its size down a bit with maybe some foil to give myself some more room. Stay tuned and once I've nailed it down I'll be sure to share.

Thanks bro! Appreciate it! 👍

It was outstanding!

I can't believe I didn't think of going deeper with the coals. Some times things that are obvious escape me lol thank you for the tip. I do think it will get easier just need to do it more.

So you've never used a Slow N' Sear, but you're on team Bro N' Sear? Are you sure? 1/2 the cooking surface is unusable for slow smoking. The SNS is only 1/3 of the grill surface (with a water pan) and goes all the way up to the grate, so you have a much bigger cook area. It's stable with it's temperature and once you get the coals lit if you close the bottom vents and leave the top all the way open it stabilizes around 225f for roughly 6-8 hours with a full basket of lump charcoal (as long as you leave the lid closed). About the time you are ready to wrap you'll need to add more coals and then open the bottom a bit to get it rocking around 275f to push through the stall. I originally cut a piece of plate steel from Home Depot with an angle grinder to separate the coals into a hot zone and added a foil pan to serve as a water pan. I'm glad I bought the SNS as once I did a few test runs (smoking chicken) I was able to dial in how to get what temperatures and now I smoke everything from brisket and ribs to picnic shoulders with crispy skin. Hell I even reverse sear ribeyes over a ripping hot fire for the maillard reaction then put the steaks back in the fridge (stops the cooking process) and close the lid to get the fire to die down low so I can smoke them with hickory to medium rare. Not sure the BNS has the same versatility, it feels similar to what I was doing with the plate steel/foil pan. Not a bad way to turn your kettle grill into a smoker, but the SNS is leagues better IMHO

I agree with you that the sns is probably way ahead of the bns. The main point of the bns is it's only 25$. I've been doing the snake method since before time began and that's free. I think that the bns has opened my eyes to a different way to do it. And maybe I can convince the Mrs that I do "need" a 80$ sns lol 😂😄 Edit: she just agreed that with your comment we should review and compare the sns with the bns....so ty 😂😆

Glad you're enjoying it! 😊

They have so much fun harvesting potatoes! 😊

Awesome, do you try to mound and cover the green part as they grow up? We feel that we don't do a great job doing that and will usually only do it once or twice.

@ClumsyDogAcres I try to mound up several of them. Some worked great. Others, not so well. I'm trying several different methods for most of my produce to get an idea of what to grow and where. My yard is closed off with trees, and the house is set more than 100ft from the street) so I can use both the front and the back (gives me more room to try things.)

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Lol that seems dangerous....I like it

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exactly

Thanks 😊

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Lol

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Right?!?! 🤣

Definitely not the goal of the trap. It is never good when you check an animal trap of any kind and find that it didn't work as intended like that. Be it a live animal trap or a kill trap, from mice and rats to coyotes.

Still haven't found a body or smell anything besides rat piss still so I think he's still prepping his return

@@ClumsyDogAcres prepare yourself cause that mf is comin back with a vengeance. Lmao

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Oh I hope not but yeah you're prolly right

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He is! Sorry for your loss. 😣

I think my ears need to be studied because if they see it on the trap they just ignore it. Or they somehow trigger trap without getting hurt to get to the bait. I am clearly the mental underdog in this war lol 😂

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That is basically the rat mothership. The D.C. swamp is full of them.

He will fit right in 😂

Good point, I'm sure we'll have a game of find that smell coming.

That’s its spinal cord. Back legs probably don’t work anymore.

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@@silencerbear9347yea he paralyzed and bleeding out no way he lived more than a couple minutes

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Chicken Scratch feed, but I've used dog and/or cat food before as well. Whichever was closer.

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I'll have to try that

Yeah I was complaining to a coworker about how the rats in my game camera seemed to be doing backflips over the traps. He's old school and told me about this style of "cuddle tunnel". To be fair I never tried any other type of trap.

@ClumsyDogAcres your way works which is great!

I think it was early March? I didn't put any kind of pest covering on them. I have some, I just never did get around to it. I also have a bad habit of planting too close together which I think makes the pest load even worse. Oh well, I'll do better next year (I might even try again in the fall)! 😊

Yes, "up on the mountain," it's a bit shady even though we've taken a lot of trees out. Last year, the tomatoes and peppers took quite a while to get started, but once they did, they thrived even without direct sunlight! I'm still pulling quart bags of tomatoes out of the freezer from last year to use when I cook. The shade cloth is a good idea; I think it really helps in the hottest part of the summer. 😊