In the archives I came across a post by Rodney C (posted 02-21-2001) who asked about marking vents to determine their settings.
My cooker is usually in the shade and the vent settings are pretty hard for me to see, let alone gauge.
You pros might laugh at me, but I've had really good luck with using 12-inch lengths of various sizes of dowel rods. I just place one in the vent, snugging it into the squared-off corner of the hole, tapping the vent cover closed till it hits the rod, and then removing it.
By doing a little careful measuring and calculating, I've come up with the following:
1/8-inch rod = 10% open
3/16-inch rod = 17% open
1/4-inch rod = 25% open
3/8-inch rod = 40% open
7/16-inch rod = 55% open
1/2-inch rod = 66% open
I hope this helps, Rodney. It takes the guesswork out of the process and it works for me!
Rita
[ 10-05-2001: Message edited by: Rita Y ]
[ 10-06-2001: Message edited by: Rita Y ]
My cooker is usually in the shade and the vent settings are pretty hard for me to see, let alone gauge.
You pros might laugh at me, but I've had really good luck with using 12-inch lengths of various sizes of dowel rods. I just place one in the vent, snugging it into the squared-off corner of the hole, tapping the vent cover closed till it hits the rod, and then removing it.
By doing a little careful measuring and calculating, I've come up with the following:
1/8-inch rod = 10% open
3/16-inch rod = 17% open
1/4-inch rod = 25% open
3/8-inch rod = 40% open
7/16-inch rod = 55% open
1/2-inch rod = 66% open
I hope this helps, Rodney. It takes the guesswork out of the process and it works for me!
Rita
[ 10-05-2001: Message edited by: Rita Y ]
[ 10-06-2001: Message edited by: Rita Y ]