Yeah, yeah, yeah... that's what I always do though! I think I've only smoked 1 flat in my life and it turned out ok but I did think it was a little dry. It was sometime last year but I don't remember any thing really bad about it. But, at the same time, I remember thinking okay... I tried that... now back to regular programming.. I guess I'm wondering if there are any tricks out there to smoking a flat and making it as good as a whole packer?