![]() I under-fired my WSM for a cook on a really cold night this past winter and after realizing my mistake tried to correct it by shoveling in a bunch of unlit on top of the coals. YMMV.Īs far as putting unlit coals on top of lit, I haven't had good luck with that technique. With KBB on long cooks, I used to have to smack the legs to get the ash to drop through, but I haven't seen the need to do so with the lump. I have noticed that since I switched to lump charcoal there's a lot less ash hanging around amongst the coals when I'm several hours into a longer cook. It looks promising, and I'm going to try it this weekend I think. I'm not an expert either, and I haven't tried the "Tinion Method" yet - just came across it on this site a few days back. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on this. ![]() Has anyone tried this before and what were the results? Or, does anyone else see any other problems that would arise from this setup? My reasoning is the ash will be able to fall into the bottom of the cooker instead of laying on top of the coals smothering the fire.īut the drawbacks I can anticipate are the fire getting smothered by the unlit and lack of oxygen, or the lit coals having a chimney type effect burning the unlit coals faster and hotter than if they burned top down. I was thinking of reversing it by putting the 15-20 lit coals in the middle first, then adding the unlit on top of it until the ring is full. I do really well with this method and can get way past a 12 hour burn time, but multiple times throughout the cook, I either have to kick the legs to knock the ash off or take the WSM apart to stir the coals. My go-to method is to put a layer of unlit in the ring, add a few chunks of wood, fill the ring the rest of the way with unlit and dig a small hole in the middle where I dump 15-20 lit coals and let her take over from there. I've been trying to think of ways to maximize the efficiency of the Minion method, but don't want to waste the charcoal to test them, so I'll turn to the experts.
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