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I'm quite the smoking noob, but I didn't realize there's such a thing as too much smoke. I could certainly see if you had a particularly strong smoke that it might overpower the food though compared to what I've come to hear about a "lighter" smoke like you might get out of apple or oak I guess.

The first time I set up my WSM, I put down a thin layer of charcoal, put down a few pieces of wood, another thin layer, few more pieces, and put a top layer of charcoal filled by a few more pieces. I then put my chimney of charcoal over the top and then just let the smoking begin as the Minion method got to them.

I feel this way it's getting smoke through the entire process, but it's not a really high ratio of wood/charcoal by any means.