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I have a Weber kettle and my dad has a gasser. For things like burgers, dogs, and stuff that doesn't spend alot of time on the grill, I think there isn't really that much difference. But for anything that's going to spend some time on the grill to cook with indirect heat, I think charcoal is...
A friend of mine has a 275-gallon home heating oil tank, and we've been thinking about turning it into a smoker. The trouble is we don't really know what we're getting ourselves into, and we don't know how best to configure it for what we want to do.
What are we getting ourselves into?
- We're...
If I poured a whole chimney of lit coals in the middle, I'd be way over 225-250 even with the bottom vents 100% closed. I did a half chimney of lit on top of a half chimney of unlit yesterday evening and smoked some thick-cut pork chops at 350. Top vent open, bottom vents roughly 80% closed.
Man, you STOLE that grill! I had to pay $85 for my 22.5" silver, and that was after looking on CL for weeks, if not a couple months. I still think I got a fair deal, but $25 for an old beat-up kettle is what I had in mind when I started looking. Oh well.
We have yet to get the tank out of his basement (not looking forward to that), but tomorrow we're going to take the rear axle out of a '93 Plymouth minivan so we can eventually make the smoker mobile. Should we take the springs too? We're thinking that the minivan springs will be excessively...
Hi everybody, I live and grew up in the Kalamazoo/Portage area of Michigan. Allow me to tell you a little bit of my pertinent history... we had a kettle grill when I was a kid, and I loved to grill stuff on it, but eventually its leg mounts gave out and we got rid of it. We replaced it with a...
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