J Grotz
TVWBB Wizard
I was gifted a CB roti by my wonderful wife. So far I have used it on two cooks. The first cook was a pair of chickens with drip pan potatoes (not pictured) on the lower cooking grate with no water pan. Everything was delicious. However, the 22 is a big cooker that uses a lot of fuel so I wanted to experiment with raising the charcoal bed higher in the cooker (more like in a 22" kettle) to see if it would use less fuel. I did not find any charcoal baskets locally, so I bought a pair of the old cage style fences and clipped them to my lower cooking grate with a drip pan between the two. This setup put the coals about 8" below the level of the top grate. That distance on a 22" kettle is 5". The lamb turned out delicious, but the outer crust could have been better. The drip pan potatoes were a miss. Unlike first cook, there was no heat source below, only from the sides, so they did not brown or finish cooking. I'm not sure what I will try and spin next. I appreciate any thoughts on getting the most out of my roti.
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