Does Weber build their charcoal grills have a standard height from the grate surface to the charcoal?
I ask as I use a poor man's version of my 18" WSM to do any charcoal grilling. I do this buy dumping a lit chimney of charcoal into the bottom of the WSM as per usual, then just place my cooking grate over the basket rim. It works, enough that I don't feel I need to buy an additional charcoal grill, but i sometimes wonder if my distance from the charcoal isn't ideal for grilling. That said, I'm not sure what ideal is either....
I ask as I use a poor man's version of my 18" WSM to do any charcoal grilling. I do this buy dumping a lit chimney of charcoal into the bottom of the WSM as per usual, then just place my cooking grate over the basket rim. It works, enough that I don't feel I need to buy an additional charcoal grill, but i sometimes wonder if my distance from the charcoal isn't ideal for grilling. That said, I'm not sure what ideal is either....