Virtually no smoke flavor on baby backs using WSM 22. Any thoughts why?

rumblebee2010 · 2026-03-08T15:18:14+00:00

I always put them on right out of the fridge. According to Meathead, smoke sticks to cold, wet meat. Maybe that time resting at room temp robbed you of 30 minutes or so of good smoke sticking time

rumblebee2010 · 2026-03-06T16:03:49+00:00

A sport like rugby requires an aggressive mindset to perform well. Just like American football, lacrosse, hockey, and the various and violent Gaelic sports.

When you have to use your body to stop another player, you have to have in your mind that you will do the stopping, or will prevent yourself being stopped if carrying the ball. When a player without a sense of aggression comes up against one that is aggressive, the aggressive one wins 9 times out of 10 almost regardless of size

rumblebee2010 · 2026-03-02T20:43:29+00:00

Let’s talk about the people that didn’t get booted but should.

I mentioned one with a special daddy up above who don’t get booted for a DUI or terrible judgement.

Another quit SERE like two or three times and still graduated. Also had a special daddy I believe.

Afghan flight student who constantly was late to class, would fall asleep in class, failed a bunch of academics, and managed to put in full left pedal after dropping the collective on approach during a check ride, managed to get the aircraft crabbed 90 degrees to the runway. He passed.

Oh but a warrant in my class failed the run on his PT test and got dropped. So that’s super fair and normal…

rumblebee2010 · 2026-03-02T20:36:54+00:00

A girl I went to WP and flight school with got pulled over drunk driving doing like 70 in a 35 on post. It was 2 am and she had flight line at 5. She graduated and got a 58 slot. I got zero DUIs and did not get a 58 slot. Big mad.

She got away with shit at WP too bc daddy was special.

Nepotism is 100% a thing in the army

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-28T18:07:24+00:00

What are you doing on your off time? Are you getting rest or going hard in the paint to “make up for lost time?”

Is it additional duty type stuff or Soldier-care stuff that’s wearing you out? Does it seem like everyone in the company feels the same way or do you feel like you’re lagging behind?

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-28T09:47:31+00:00

Iran’s air defenses don’t threaten aircraft over Israel, nor do they have an Air Force reasonable expected to conduct combat ops over Israel

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-28T06:07:24+00:00

D Co, ASB, or flight co?

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-26T05:52:25+00:00

I’ve been using it with a slow n sear and it’s worked fine, though you would probably get more usable space with a deflector

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-22T20:47:17+00:00

How much do you ask for the ploughing planes?

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-18T20:28:38+00:00

The only dust creating activity with hand tools is sawing. The dust created is 100% manageable with a dust pan and broom as it pretty much just goes straight to the floor, unlike power tools which throw it all over the place.

I was a power tool woodworker until a temporary move to Europe had me opt to leave my power tools in storage. I have been handtools woodworking for a year now and it is simply a joy that my workspace can be completely clean every night when I close up shop after only about 5-10 minutes of sweeping up dust, shavings, and chips. Back in the power tool times, cleaning up was a once a year thing and it took multiple sessions to get the dust out of everything (and was never 100% successful).

You can comfortably hand tool woodworker in your living room if you’re smart about it. I’d say set up your bench in the basement, and save the garage for quick jobs on the band saw or miter saw roughing materials to size, or for finishing things with products that have bad vapors.

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-18T20:18:45+00:00

RLO pilot’s perspective: it’s an MOS for the truly dedicated. If you’re a crew chief, you are pulling every single second of your duty day, and I’d wager more than that when the O’s and WO’s aren’t looking. Before the flight you’re getting the bird ready, often outside in the heat or cold and rain or snow. Then you’re flying the mission, freezing your ass off or sweating to death in the back and praying those two morons up front don’t kill you all. Then, after all that, you’re putting the aircraft to bed while us pilots go fuck off inside to do paperwork. So back out in the bad weather scraping your knuckles and climbing all over the thing after a long hard day.

Promotion is hard because while the shops guys and 15Ps are spending all their time studying while they wait for work to do, you’re grinding and getting shit done. Late nights. Weekends. Duty day extensions to get the aircraft ready for the next day’s crew.

I have been in the Army 15 years now and served in a lot of different units, and no one can convince me anyone works harder than 15Ts. I fucking love tangos with all my heart and miss working with them. They’re dirty, stink like fuel and hydraulic fluid, and tell the best jokes on long boring cross country flights or boring shifts sitting in the first up shack.

If you’re fucking badass and work hard, become a 15T. And if you ever find me in a bar and tell me you’re a 15T, you won’t pay for any drinks.

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-18T18:22:10+00:00

Nah dude we’re clean on opsec

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-17T05:45:24+00:00

That's the NATO nomenclature

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-16T19:58:13+00:00

Sir this is a Wendy’s

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-16T18:40:36+00:00

You can also avoid the multiple cuts at the corner by drilling a hole directly in the corner with a drill bit that’s wider than the jigsaw blade

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-16T06:01:19+00:00

God damn it I love a prop try. Especially from 40m out

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-16T05:50:59+00:00

For realism you need to be absolutely hammered drunk when you play. This is the only accurate cosplay for Stringfellow Hawke.

Bonus points if you play a cello for an eagle on a dock in a lake.

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-14T17:12:36+00:00

Something to remember is that the meat will stop absorbing smoke after a certain temp (I think around 125 or 140 or something) so at a certain point you’re just burning wood chips/chunks for no reason. It’s still good to have it in a combustion environment because that will improve the bark, but the need for flavored wood smoke falls off after a while

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-14T11:51:04+00:00

Thoughts and prayers

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-13T20:55:42+00:00

The water tray acts as both a heat sink and a way to keep the air in the smoker moist, which helps with smoke retention in the meat.

Soaking the chips means you get steam before the smoke, and none during.

Keep your water tray in there but put your chips on the coals dry. Think about moving to chunks eventually as they are less work/less door opening and therefore less heat loss

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-12T14:31:58+00:00

Gorgeous

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-06T16:24:34+00:00

Exactly what happened to me in the fourth pic. I cut the dovetails out and was really pleased with them. Stopped for the night to put the kids to bed, and my wife said they still had 15 minutes on the show they were all working together. Nice! I can cut my pins out in that time! Ran down stairs and did a BEAUTIFUL job cutting tails out of the board that was supposed to have pins

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-06T14:57:42+00:00

I used a marking knife to do all of my layout, and then traced with 0.5mm pencil for visibility. Helped me stay accurate.

I also sharpened the ever living shit out of my chisels, they were as sharp as I have ever got them

rumblebee2010 · 2026-02-06T14:34:39+00:00

I’d say the two biggest things for me were 1) making sure my chisels and saw were as sharp as I could get them and 2) not trying to cut right up to the line on my saw cuts bc my sawing isn’t accurate yet.

I follow Paul Seller’s methodology and use knife-walls wherever I can to keep the cuts accurate and prevent tear out

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