I’ve done this a few times now. The WSK is very fuel efficient so from experience, I know that filling the lower coal grate with a lot of briqs is a waste of briqs and is just more work on the next cook reset. I reuse unspent fuel so the less fuel I have in the hopper, the less there is to clean up later.I like the use of those baskets not sure I've seen that before it's a great idea
Oil, on dinner napkins that people leave at their seat in my house. And or used wet paper towels that have dried. Put some cheap cooking oil or residual bacon grease inside them and use a small torch to light the “wicks.” Around 20 minutes later you have a good fire for smoking.More hardware pics, sez I. Show me the oil on paper towels setup before lighting!
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I use this wick method with JD in a chimney. I’ve done this same wick method with JD in the charcoal baskets and it takes too long to get all the coals hot.Does it work with JD lump? We have a 2 burner outdoor range that I've been using with a chimney, but I'm always open to new ideas. When I've used newspaper under a chimney many, many, many years ago, i always seemed to have paper ash flying about the yard...not good.