Charcoal grate ?

[Dave Atwater]

Would it behoove me to add another charcoal grate at a 90' orientation on my 18.5 to keep the small pieces of charcoal from falling through to the bottom on the smoker? Or am I just going to clog up the ash and shut down air flow?

 

[Frank H]

Would it behoove me to add another charcoal grate at a 90' orientation on my 18.5 to keep the small pieces of charcoal from falling through to the bottom on the smoker? Or am I just going to clog up the ash and shut down air flow?

clogs up with ash if you use briquettes....not so bad with lump.

 

[Carl H.]

People sometimes do that with lump. Works fine.

 

[timothy]

I do it with both, you just have to give the legs a few taps or slight kicks with briqs to knockdown the ashes.

Tim

 

[MattP]

I've done that on my Performer grill, but haven't felt it necessary on the WSM. Only use K-Comp on the WSM, fuel varies on the Performer-- sometimes lump, sometimes briquette. Don't think I would have done this on the Performer if I wasn't using lump.

 

[Dwain Pannell]

I do it with lump.

 

[David]

I do with briquettes, on my 22, never experience an ash problem with up to 12 hour cooks.......................d

 

[Gary S]

Would it behoove me to add another charcoal grate at a 90' orientation on my 18.5 to keep the small pieces of charcoal from falling through to the bottom on the smoker? Or am I just going to clog up the ash and shut down air flow?

I do it all the time but I don't use KB. Other briquettes I've tried work fine but I mostly use lump and made a charcoal basket using a charcoal grate for the bottom. I turn it 90 degrees.

 

[RonW.]

Check this out, you cat take two grates and a couple S/S hose clamps and connect them all together, now you have a shaker to shake the ash if neeed be, Ive never had a problem. Only time I need to shake is to save any unused lump or briquettes.

 

[RJ Banks]

I did the same Ron for my 22. Got a replacement grate from Home Depot and attached them to the ring with metal zip ties from Harbor Freight. Works great. Never had an ash problem even if I smoked twice in a weekend and did not clean it out from the first cook.

 

[Gary S]

That will work just fine.

 

[Chad Bman]

Add me to the list who added an 18" replacement charcoal grate inside the ring of my 22" and wired it all together.