Quote from: Turbo98 on January 25, 2016, 04:49:21 PMThat's what the Smokenator instructions say to do. I did some indirect cooking/smoking yesterday for the first time with the coals banked behind some bricks. I lit them kind of like it was a Smokenator with 48 unlit down first then 12 lit on top. Doing it this way is a lot faster as it only takes a few minutes to light those 12 coals in an upsidedown chimney. Plus all the heat wasted waiting 20+ minutes for a whole chimney full of coals to ash over could be used to cook with. But I'm not sure if one would need a "pre-heated kettle to use the Vortex effectively?It'll actually take much longer to get the necessary heat you're shooting for by using the vortex. The whole concept is to cook indirectly with very high heat. Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk
That's what the Smokenator instructions say to do. I did some indirect cooking/smoking yesterday for the first time with the coals banked behind some bricks. I lit them kind of like it was a Smokenator with 48 unlit down first then 12 lit on top. Doing it this way is a lot faster as it only takes a few minutes to light those 12 coals in an upsidedown chimney. Plus all the heat wasted waiting 20+ minutes for a whole chimney full of coals to ash over could be used to cook with. But I'm not sure if one would need a "pre-heated kettle to use the Vortex effectively?
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