did ribs today they where very tender and moist did the no peek method the bark was a little chewy had a problem with my temp knob looks like it is striped i went to the mods forum and looked at the mod there my knob looks different than the one shown sent a text to Steve will see what he says this is my second smoke and i love this smoker i also did start my smoker on low temp for 1/2 hour then turned it up to 225 i was very pleased with how quickly i had tbs about 45 minutes into the smoke i used about 2oz of apple wood and 1 of hickory added about 8 oz of apple juice in miss Lilly's container set it next to the fire box wow just got a text back from steve talk about customer service so glad i bought my smokin-it