I decided to grill/smoke some wings for lunch. I know it's a lot for one person, shut up, I'm fat.
A Vortex has been on my wishlist for a while but I always buy a cheap kettle instead and I keep pushing a Vortex back to next week. I don't care for most gadgets but it's simple, fairly cheap and would get a ton of use from me.
So for no apparent reason (and I'm sure plenty have done this before) I decided to use some Pecan wood chunks as my primary fuel source. I laid a very small bed of lump just to get things going then I added a fist sized chunk of Pecan and waited for it to take off. I let the dancing flame cook my wings for the whole cook whilst burning a very clean fire in the process.
I cracked the lid back about a 1/2 inch so the fire had enough oxygen not to put out my flame. I ran it like this the entire cook and these were the best smoked wings I've ever had. IMHO it's easy to over-smoke chicken but with this method I ran the kettle like an offset burning a wood fire the whole time.
Tried to catch the fire going but camera wouldn't focus
Topic: No Vortex? No Problem (Read 1787 times)
