Hey All!
Got kind of a dumb question..at what point do in need to have a drip pan for indirect cooking? I was doing some chicken wings and had them on direct heat for a while to crisp them up. I then moved them off to indirect. I did not have a drip pan underneath since it was only for about 15 minutes or so. I went to clean the grill after it cooled down and I could not move my bottom damper handle. I scraped a little off of the dampers and got it to move then.
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I try to use foil or foil pans as much as possible just to keep the OT moving freely and to avoid a grease fire.
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^ Agree with kettlebb. I place either foil or a drip pan on the charcoal grate whenever I cook indirect.
Buy a roll of the cheapest aluminum foil you can find and keep it in your grill area. I TRY to always throw down some foil when cooking indirect.
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I only use a drip pan if I'm cooking pork belly or butt.
The mess left behind with everything else is easier than dealing with foil, imo.
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I just scrape the inside of my weber, with a plastic scraper, which gets rid of all the mess, and goes into my ash catcher at the bottom.
When I do wings with my vortex, I usually don't put anything under them since they are around the outer area of the grill. It would be kind of tricky to foil that area. When I am done with the wings, I pull the vortex out, move the coals to the outer area and let the coals burn the grease off. Same technique should be applicable to other indirect cooking methods, just move you coals to the indirect side once you are done cooking at let them burn off the drippings.
I try to use a drip pan as much as possible. I forgot to use one a couple of times when doing wings and when I did a pork belly that I made into bacon and I regretted it. My vents would move until I scraped the crap out of it.
Don't use a pan or foil much. Most times i do what mike mentioned above. Turn the heat up move coals around and let it burn off. Every now and then I pull both grates out and hit them and the walls with the wire brush. I actually haven't really cleaned a kettle or my WSM in over 2 years. My sweeps work fine.
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