- Oct 14, 2017
- 560
- 295
I’ve done tons of bacon and burgers on my Austin Xl without much more than flare ups but I threw some bacon and chicken thighs on the 560 yesterday at 400 degrees and had a raging inferno of a grease fire. Like fire licking out of the rear vent kinda fire. Not real sure how this thing has any paint left afterwards. Had to pull everything and let it burn itself out and lost half my bacon. Is anyone else having this issue and is there a fix. I know on my pit boss or charcoal grill I can just close the lid or damper and smother out the fire. I’m thinking I may need to mod the rear vent to be able to smother grease fires at higher temp cooks. Also want to mention that the grill was cleaned and the last cook started out at 400 for some pizzas but I ended up bumping to 550 for the remainder of that cook so any residual grease from previous cooks was definitely burnt off.