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Sonny

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If you do not plan on using water, why do you have to foil the bowl? It seems it would be much easier to purchase a foil pan to catch dripin' than to go through all the hassel of lining a bowl with foil..
 
Foil the pan to make cleanup easier. I've never seena foil pan that size, or round for that matter. I usually fill my grate so I wouldn't want any smaller of a pan and have all the grease fall into the coals and ash.
 
Sonny, you use whatever you like.
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My 18.5" takes one sheet of foil with a slight depression for drippings.
Takes less than a minute. Not a hassle at all..

Tim
 
Seems like someone with some entrepreneurial spirit could make money on a preformed foil liner for the water pan. I'd pay almost any amount of money to avoid cleaning the water pan.
 
I put an aluminum foil pan on top of my foiled clay saucer and it handles the heat just fine. It catches some of the fat but some goes around the rectangular pan and gets on the foil on the clay saucer. If you foil the water pan you don't get a thick soot buildup on the bottom and charred fat inside the water pan. I think it's a lot less hassle than cleaning the water pan.
 
If you don't foil the pan and get drippings in it, it can be a bear to clean up.
If you use a clay flower pot base, the base can be ruined if a lot of drippings fall on it.
Foil is cheap and a good insurance.
 
If cooking with a clay pot base in my pan instead of water, my objective is not only to catch drippings in the foil, but to keep them from smoking before I foil the meat.

Anyway, I'll make sure the depression of foil where the drippings accumulate doesn't touch the clay pot base underneath. I did a little double butt cook Saturday in my new 22.5" at around 250* and didn't notice drippings burning smell until AFTER foiling each butt at IT*'s of almost 170*.
 
I wonder if an aluminum pan, if you could find the right size, would take the heat?
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I have this rib rack that can be flipped over and used for roasting. But because of the supports on the ends, when I'm using it for roasts (chicken, turkey, prime rib, etc...) I can fit a medium sized aluminum pan underneath for catching drippins for gravy, au jus or whatever. I got it at Lowes but I'm sure lots of other places have it. I've used that method a few times and it works very well and there is no problem with the heat.
 
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