Water Pan Filling - Tip

[r benash]

Hey don't know that I've seen this here, but it may have been posted somewhere.

Dropped back to wet cooking today when the Digi II decided to take a holiday. When refilling the water pan had the thought to use one of these that was laying around unused:
Transmission Funnel

Perfect for the job. No need to remove the lid. Just add water easily from the side door.

 

[Toby Keil]

I use that exact same funnel when I need to refill the fresh water tank in the motorhome when we are in the desert, works great.

 

[Mike C.]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">...when the Digi II decided to take a holiday. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

What does that mean? It quit working?

 

[r benash]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Mike C.:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">...when the Digi II decided to take a holiday. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

What does that mean? It quit working? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yep

Two Butts

 

[Lou S]

Standard wine bottle works for me. Any drawbacks to that approach?

 

[Todd Randall]

Magnum wine bottle would pore twice as much?

 

[Jerry Pollard]

I used a 2-litre soda bottle (when i used the water pan) works great. I use the clay pot now and probably always!

 

[Lee Rogers]

If the tube was a little longer that thing would double as a nice beer bong too.

 

[Michael Freeman]

I use the transmission funnel also. It allows me to get the end all the way down to the water pan, so there's no splash when I pour the water.

 

[thoslhall]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Jerry Pollard:
I use the clay pot now and probably always! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
I need a little (maybe a lot) of help here. WHAT is the CLAY POT. I hate doing the damn water thing- mainly the cleaning. Thanks.

 

[r benash]

Look here :

Water pan replacement/substitution technique.
Clay Saucer

Basically some folks remove the water pan and run the WSM with a clay saucer (used for flower pot base) as a heat sink instead.

Lots of archive info is you search and there's more info on the resource page I believe.

 

[Jacob Samarin]

i use a garden watering can.

 

[r benash]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by jacob samarin:
i use a garden watering can. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yep that's what I used to do - long neck. The trans funnel was cool in that it allowed me to direct the flow much easier. Just lay the end in the pan and pour into the funnel.