Had a nice fire going for around 6 hours at roughly 260-270*, then the fire went out.
Basket loaded with about +/- 13 lbs regular Kingsford charcoal. Minion method, put about 22 hot coals into hole in center of unlit charcoal.
Using water in water pan. Using homemade reflectix style jacket with air holes. Top vent fully open.
About 1/3 of the charcoal gone when fire died. Had 1 bottom vent about 1/2 open the whole time, vent not clogged with ash.
Done the same cook before without the fire going out. Usually about 6 hours I have to start opening up more bottom vents,
so when I saw the temperature dropping I went to open up vents and discovered fire out. Any theories why fire went out? Thanks.
(Possibly/probably something to do with only having 1 vent open, and I can try experimenting with 2 vents,
but as I said I've done this cook before with only 1 vent for a longer period of time without fire going out).
Basket loaded with about +/- 13 lbs regular Kingsford charcoal. Minion method, put about 22 hot coals into hole in center of unlit charcoal.
Using water in water pan. Using homemade reflectix style jacket with air holes. Top vent fully open.
About 1/3 of the charcoal gone when fire died. Had 1 bottom vent about 1/2 open the whole time, vent not clogged with ash.
Done the same cook before without the fire going out. Usually about 6 hours I have to start opening up more bottom vents,
so when I saw the temperature dropping I went to open up vents and discovered fire out. Any theories why fire went out? Thanks.
(Possibly/probably something to do with only having 1 vent open, and I can try experimenting with 2 vents,
but as I said I've done this cook before with only 1 vent for a longer period of time without fire going out).
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