Old Man Needs Waterpan help

[Steve Petrone]

I am trying to do the Piedmont waterpan mod. It calls for the Brinkman CHARCOAL pan. Purchased one today part #114-0002-0. The brinkmann website uses the same part #.

My Weber water pan will not fit inside of it. Instead it sticks up about 1 inch-could not use the bottom grate with the weber pan sticking up so far. What am I missing?

Trying to cook tonight with the new piedmont pan.

 

[Doug D]

That mod calls for the use of two Brinkmann pans, not the standard and a Brinkmann. Also, the originator of the idea doesn't use a WSM, but rather a kettle with a custom-made spacer to approximate a bullet smoker. Someone did say they used a WSM pan and a Brinkmann, but did not report anything about the bottom grate-- maybe they just didn't use it.

 

[Steve Petrone]

Doug, thanks for the clarification. It helps to read first. Sort of like measure twice-cut once idea. Oh well I'll get a second brinkmann pan tomorrow.

 

[Larry D.]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Doug D:
Someone did say they used a WSM pan and a Brinkmann, but did not report anything about the bottom grate-- maybe they just didn't use it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
That was me. You're right, I only cooked on the top rack. But I think the bottom rack would have sat on the WSM pan without any problem. The small loss of "head room" between the racks shouldn't matter.

 

[Steve Petrone]

Larry, thanks for your follow up. I had to run by the store yesterday anyway and picked up another brinkmann pan. With all the meat I have in the freezer, it may be a week or two before I try the piedmont pan.