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Can thawing meat more quickly (e.g. warm water, microwave, warm oven) than normal (leaving out at room temperature) affect the taste / texture of the meat? Is there a particular maximum rate of temperature change for various types of meat (beef, pork, and chicken is what I'm most interested in)?
Can thawing meat too quickly affect its quality?

Help! I need to get a jar of pasta sauce open but can't seem to budge it. I've tried using a dishtowel, and running it under hot water, but the lid is still stuck. What else can I do to open this jar?
What is the best way to open a tightly fitted lid of a jar?

I recently received a charcoal smoker for my cake day. I attempted to smoke pork ribs, here are the steps I followed. Cured the smoker with 2 Lbs of charcoal. (6 hours) Cleaned the smoker. Prepped 3 Lbs of charcoal in charcoal chimney. Put water used to soak hickory chips in the water reservoir.Position ribs on the two racksOnce charcoal was red hot with white ash, transferred it to the charcoal pan.Smoked for about 5 hours and temperature started dropping.Added 2 Lbs more of Charcoal Chimney prepped charcoal.Smoked for 3 more hours.The problem I experienced is the temperature never went above 180F (82C), at the end of the 8 hours total smoking time, the internal temperature of the ribs sat at 120F (49C).I ended up finishing them off in an oven set to 360F (182C) for about 25 minutes to raise the meats internal temperature to 145F (62C).Is the charcoal at fault for the temperature?I used: Cowboy Brand Hardwood Lump Charcoal Is the smoker the issue?I used: Char-Broil Vertical Charcoal SmokerOne note, the smoker smoked from around the door to what I would think might be excessive. Should I look into sealing around the door? This smoker has no smoke stack on it's top.Ribs turned out great either way, but finishing them in the oven caused fat to drip into the bottom of the oven and now the wife is mad because when we use it, it smokes the house.

Is charcoal or the smoker at fault for low temperature smoking?

