Howard Warren
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This is going to be a crazy question, so please don't laugh too much...
I normally run my Weber charcoal kettle and WSM on a concrete pad outside my house, but it's not a convenient location. I have a wood deck right outside my kitchen. Looking through the site here, I see that several people have build wooden carts to hold their Weber grills and smokers. This actually surprises me, I would have through the heat from the Webers to be too high to safely use around wood. And my (now ex-) wife was absolutely paranoid about fire near wood.
So my question: is using a Weber grill/smoker on a wood deck really safe? Or should I build some kind of box (maybe with Hardibacker walls?) to surround the grills?
Thanks!
I normally run my Weber charcoal kettle and WSM on a concrete pad outside my house, but it's not a convenient location. I have a wood deck right outside my kitchen. Looking through the site here, I see that several people have build wooden carts to hold their Weber grills and smokers. This actually surprises me, I would have through the heat from the Webers to be too high to safely use around wood. And my (now ex-) wife was absolutely paranoid about fire near wood.
So my question: is using a Weber grill/smoker on a wood deck really safe? Or should I build some kind of box (maybe with Hardibacker walls?) to surround the grills?
Thanks!