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Ideally that's what I wanted. In the future I will either pick up some fire bricks and/or build a new larger fire basket to setup a true 2 zone cook. I guess in the mean time I can do as you suggest and just use both baskets on one side or just skip the baskets and lump all the coal over to one...

Well guys, I decided to go ahead and pop the cherry on my Performer last night and cooked up some chicken thighs. Unfortunately, it did not go as well as I had hoped :( I wanted to do a 2 zone fire. While its probably not the ideal way to do it, I went ahead and used the Weber charcoal baskets...

I already have a chimney but use newspaper to start it. It's really not the starting I have issue with. Sure it takes a little longer but the issue I have is, if I'm just cooking some dogs or burgers, I'm generally done long before the coals are. Sure I can close the vents and save the remaining...

Thanks for the opinions so far... I doubt I would do it but I am curious, is it possible to convert my current grill into a gas-assist version? I assume all the parts I would need are probably available but I'm not sure how much it would cost or how much trouble it would be to retrofit it?

At my request, my family recently bought me a new Performer grill (non-gas model) but I haven't used it yet. Partly because the weather and our schedules hasn't really cooperated and partly because I have been second guessing that decision? Background... I've mostly been a gas grill guy all...

Hello everybody Newbie here from Northern Kentucky. I'm a long time gas cooker but when my old grill died a year ago, I had a hard time finding a decent replacement that I felt was worth the price. I grew up in house built in the '50's that had an era correct brick charcoal pit and I missed...