BBQ Grill Temperature Tips

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Paul Amato on behalf of Expert Village and we're going to continue talking about how to smoke ribs. It's been about 5 minutes and the coals are ready and there red hot and it's time to dump them into the fire box. Once you add the coals in you might want to decide at this point that your going to want to add some more coals to it. One of reasons to keep it relatively small and terms to size is that natural lump coal burns very hot. Now that the fire started you want to get the temperature up to 250 degrees, what we're going to try do here is get the temperature up to 250 and get it steady. And what your going to do is use the smoke stack damper as well as the butterfly damper on the fire box to do that. 250 is a good temperature to smoke at some like to do it a little lower if you want to keep it at 230 that's fine as well, but 250 is where I keep it at. To insure to keep the temperature constant is to make sure you don't keep opening this dome to keep checking your ribs. Once you do that the temperature is going to drop quit a bit and slow down the cooking process and it's going to take some time for this temperature to move back up. You really want to keep them in there as long as possible without looking at them."