brickguy221
Smoking Fanatic
What Bear said here ... ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
#2 I find the bottom rack to be too hot, regardless of whether the water pan is in or not, but worse with the pan out. Therefore I never use mine without the Water pan in. If I had to use the bottom rack, I would rotate the stuff on that rack with another.
Bear
Only one time have I ever had to use all 4 racks and I did as Bear said and that is to rotate. I was smoking some "Jeff Phillips Camp Fire Chicken" which take 2 hrs @ 250*. At the end of one hr, I put the bottom shelf contents on the top shelf and the top shelf contents on the bottom shelf and all came out perfect.