Dustin Dorsey
TVWBB Hall of Fame
What's a good setup to run 350 on a kettle for a turkey smoke. Snake method? I've got the charcoal baskets. Weber suggests using a half chimney split between them and adding some unlit every hour.
You have the Weber 7403 baskets? I'm not a big fan of those for high-heat (north of 300) or long cooks because the bottom clogs up, but if that's what you have this is what I've done in the past: I fill them full and put on about a half dozen fully lit charcoals on each (assuming you're going to BBQ your Turkey in the middle) and plan on refilling them about an hour and half into the cook (if not sooner) when you refill them, gently rattle them (use pliers) so that the ash dumps out the bottom. Gentle is the key, you don't want to stir the ash up and get it on your cook. I bought fire bricks and I use them exclusively. You can load them up fuller (because they're taller) and you don't have ash build up. Below is a typical brick set up I often use in my kettle cooksI've got the charcoal baskets
What's a good setup to run 350 on a kettle for a turkey smoke. Snake method? I've got the charcoal baskets. Weber suggests using a half chimney split between them and adding some unlit every hour.
What's a good setup to run 350 on a kettle for a turkey smoke. Snake method? I've got the charcoal baskets. Weber suggests using a half chimney split between them and adding some unlit every hour.