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Nate

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Re: Made a Mini today.
« Reply #15 on: April 26, 2015, 12:45:55 PM »
@Butch can you post pics of your setup? Maybe start a new post too for this.

Jason

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Re: Made a Mini today.
« Reply #16 on: April 26, 2015, 12:50:57 PM »
I use the steamer part with holes to hold a tera cotta heat diffuser.

Maybe it's too diffused?

with the steamer flat & the terra cotta both, it may block too much rising heat?

---^ This is what I'm thinking too.

@Butch Top vent 100% open? How open were the bottom, or side vents?

How many fully lit coals did you start with?

fedex

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Re: Made a Mini today.
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2015, 01:31:18 PM »
My setup: 
Full mini chimney in a nice little pile.
6 lit Kingsford briquettes & 1chunk of Apple wood.
No disfuser
Bottom vents just cracked top wide open.
Settled in at around 260 and never got as high as 280.

Just about the same method I use when cooking on my UDS.

Try again without the disfuser.
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1911Ron

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Re: Made a Mini today.
« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2015, 03:15:14 PM »
I love it! I am definitely doing this soon.
Where did you get your pot?

What, if anything, are you using for a charcoal ring and diffuser?
@jcnaz I use the steamer tray as my diffuser and i took some expanded metal and made a ring.
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Bob BQ

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Re: Made a Mini today.
« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2015, 08:09:22 PM »
@tomtappel something similar to what 1buckie's pictures posted above works great. I've got something similar, and it definitely keeps the ash from clogging up the vent holes.

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tomtappel

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Re: Made a Mini today.
« Reply #20 on: April 26, 2015, 08:24:49 PM »
A smoke out, let's do it bob

LightningBoldtz

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Re: Made a Mini today.
« Reply #21 on: April 27, 2015, 03:32:05 AM »
@Butch this is what I did

When I first made my mini I drilled a bunch of holes on the bottom then I used the steamer platform(what you put the food on if it was a seamer) to set my terra cota plate on.  This worked at times and sometimes I just could not get the heat up.  So last year I did this.

I noticed this the most when I switched from a SJG bottom to a SJS(I did this because grilling on a gold kinda sucked)

Original config
Steamer platform pic


w/ Terra Cata plate


The mod that works great
Cut out bottom




Install bolts for diffuser plate




New diffuser plate with bolts to keep it from shifting all over




« Last Edit: April 27, 2015, 03:46:45 AM by LightningBoldtz »
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