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[Dan-H]

My opinion is adding water pans or not depends on where you live and the relative humidity. If you have 90% humidity its one thing, but when its 15% water helps.

 

[1MoreFord]

The purpose of water pans is not to add moisture to charcoal, wood, pellet cookers but rather to help control temps.

You can boil a piece of meat in a pan of water and still not add moisture to the meat.

 

[Dan-H]

Does Humidity Affect Smoking Meat? - GrillSimply

These are the most important ways that humidity affects smoking meat, some you can eliminate and some that you can use to your advantage.

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see number 5, 7 and 8
https://www.smokedbbqsource.com/things-that-affect-meat-cooking-times/

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If you live in the south or the east it is humid and may not matter as much.

out west it is dry. and a water pan is a must in a pellet grill

even in my BGE I will have a pan with water in it for an overnight porkbutt and the BGE holds moisture inside much, much better than the pellet.

YMMV, experiment, take notes