This will be long so brace yourself..
I acquired a smokey joe that had been sitting in my aunts garage unused since the last time the cowboys won the super bowl, and so I took it off her hands for her. Got a new grat and was set to go. I scrubbed it out, then I seasoned it a few times. The model has the ashpan, bottom and top vents.
I recently moved out of my parents and into my own place and left my ECB,as well as my parents gasser that was used for everything at their place, and have been cooking on this thing. I have been having constant temperature problems with it, at first I was using sams choice charcoal, which has been very good to me on smoke sessions and always delivered me good results, start up about a quarter of chimney, let the coals get glowing orange.. then bank all the coals to one side, and indirect cook my food until its ready for a quick direct flame finish. now I noticed with both vents wide open.. even with nice breezes as son at the top goes on, within a minute the coals no longer glow and everything just dies out.. so I made some changes waited a bit longer before putting the lid on, and then I thouhgt mayeby im not giving it enough fuel, nope that wasnt the case as I filed a half chimney of RO lump last night and they were definitely hot, let them sit a bit before putting the ld on both vetns open, and then I put the lid on walk back in ot get the food for the grill and then I open the lid bakc up and hardly any of the coals are glowing.. and I do the hand heat test, had a medium low fire (4 missisippi) what am I doing wrong.. any ideas?
I acquired a smokey joe that had been sitting in my aunts garage unused since the last time the cowboys won the super bowl, and so I took it off her hands for her. Got a new grat and was set to go. I scrubbed it out, then I seasoned it a few times. The model has the ashpan, bottom and top vents.
I recently moved out of my parents and into my own place and left my ECB,as well as my parents gasser that was used for everything at their place, and have been cooking on this thing. I have been having constant temperature problems with it, at first I was using sams choice charcoal, which has been very good to me on smoke sessions and always delivered me good results, start up about a quarter of chimney, let the coals get glowing orange.. then bank all the coals to one side, and indirect cook my food until its ready for a quick direct flame finish. now I noticed with both vents wide open.. even with nice breezes as son at the top goes on, within a minute the coals no longer glow and everything just dies out.. so I made some changes waited a bit longer before putting the lid on, and then I thouhgt mayeby im not giving it enough fuel, nope that wasnt the case as I filed a half chimney of RO lump last night and they were definitely hot, let them sit a bit before putting the ld on both vetns open, and then I put the lid on walk back in ot get the food for the grill and then I open the lid bakc up and hardly any of the coals are glowing.. and I do the hand heat test, had a medium low fire (4 missisippi) what am I doing wrong.. any ideas?