- Jul 7, 2018
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I started early this morning in 75F weather and no wind with my new AMNTS loaded with hickory pellets from BBQ Delight, lit it up and blew it out once the flame was going for a few minutes, then put it under the grill grates in my trusty Napoleon Prestige P500 gas grill and loaded up the main and top racks with cheese, butter, Goldfish, pretzels, almonds, Bits’n’Bites and Wavy Lays for my first ever smoke!
Everything was going great for the first 3 hours with the AMNTS until I peeked out on my deck and noticed the smoke was way too clear, I opened the grill and found the pellets had caught fire and had also set fire to the pretzels directly overhead! Fortunately they weren’t lit long and didn’t ruin the othe food on the grill so it was still mostly a success, but I was wondering if there’s a best-practices to keeping the AMNTS from catching fire during a cook?
I was thinking of spritzing the pellets with water every hour or something but would love some advice as I’d like to use it tomorrow on a HOT grill and at this point I’m not confident I can keep the whole thing from bursting into flames!
Everything was going great for the first 3 hours with the AMNTS until I peeked out on my deck and noticed the smoke was way too clear, I opened the grill and found the pellets had caught fire and had also set fire to the pretzels directly overhead! Fortunately they weren’t lit long and didn’t ruin the othe food on the grill so it was still mostly a success, but I was wondering if there’s a best-practices to keeping the AMNTS from catching fire during a cook?
I was thinking of spritzing the pellets with water every hour or something but would love some advice as I’d like to use it tomorrow on a HOT grill and at this point I’m not confident I can keep the whole thing from bursting into flames!