My buddy who cooks with me in comps loves the vert trailmaster for cooking chicken !! With the mods we do it holds temp at 225-250 easy yet by opening the drafts will go to 350 + in minutes to crisp skin or carmalize sauce without drying out the meat. WE put 1/8th by 1/2 inch nomex gasket around the door, new expanded metal charcoal basket 13 inches dia., We cut a disc out of 1/4 inch plate the diameter of a cook grate as a heat sink/diffuser,and set the waterpan on top of that, we put 1/4 inch bolts between each grate support to give us 4 grates 3 inches apart to cook chicken,and add a firebox vent across from the factory one to make the charcoal burn evenly.
Mike
Mike
