157° (70° C) Without any fuel or fire


 
Mark Barton

Mark Barton

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Through some recent post exchanges with Rich in Prescott, I was inspired to measure the temp of my WSM 18.5 in the blazing Arizona summer. We have been under excessive heat warnings over the past few days so I thought it would be a good time to do the experiment. And while it (thankfully) did not get up to 120 as predicted, on Sunday the temp did get to 117!

I put the Maverick in the cook chamber for a several hours during the hottest part of the day, under full sun. The WSM had been in full sun for a couple of hours when I started. At 10:00am, the temp measured 115 with no fire. It climbed steadily, topping out at 157 degrees at 1:30 pm. It stayed around 150 for a couple of hours and dropped pretty fast when the sun went over the house.

All in all, it was a fun test. The WSM temps were actually less than I expected. While it would theoretically be possible to cook super low at 150, the temp did not hold for long enough to actually cook anything, other than many some veggies or bake some eggs in the shell.

Has anyone else tried this where you live?
 
I was wondering if you were going to try that in the heat wave we were having. I'm surprised too that it didn't got hotter than that, but still 150 is pretty warm.
Even here at 5600 ft. it was 108 here yesterday, looks like about 100 today.

I went to set up my WSM this morning at about 7:30 and when I went to pick it up I almost dropped it, the thing was sitting in the sun and it was so hot I had to put my weber heat gloves on to move it.

Just hope it's not going to be like this all summer.
Stay cool, if you can:cool:
 
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