Rotating the lid?

[Grizz]

So, I like to cook chicken wings with a basket of coal on either end and the wings in the middle.  As I was turning them tonight, I wondered:  does the position of the vent on the lid dictate where the heat goes?  Normally, I set the timer for ten minutes and then I rotate the wings.  SHOULD I also be rotating the lid?  Like 12 o'clock, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock each time?  I wonder if that would benefit the cook with baskets?  Just thinking out loud.  And slightly buzzed on wine.

[Grizz]

sorry, I don't "rotate" the wings, I turn the wings every ten minutes in the middle, but I'm curious if anyone rotates their lid as they cook in the middle with baskets on either end.

[Grizz]

stupid lid! Just burned the inside of my forearm on it somehow.  The chicken, however, smells......divine.
 

[Travis]

If your cooking wings like that, baskets on both sides and wings down the middle, I wouldn't rotate the lid. I'd keep in in the middle. I would not put the vent directly over the coals because that baskets heat will go  "right up the chimney".

Just a question. Why do you set up your heat that way? It seems that a lot of cooking space would be sacrificed by that set up as opposed to either a wing ring set up ( my current favorite since learning of it here) or having the heat on one side of the kettle and the wings on the other (how I always cooked wings before). Just curious, not hating.

I touched the heat side of the bowl once while sweeping ashes after a cook. I made my kids watch my skin peel over the next day or so, so they would learn not to play around the grill. Feel for ya with that one...


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[Darko]

stupid lid! Just burned the inside of my forearm on it somehow.  The chicken, however, smells......divine.
 

You sure it's the chicken & not your forearm?

[Grizz]

Didn't burn it THAT bad.  To answer your question, Travis, I don't know.  I used to put the baskets together in the middle and ring the chicken around them, but when I tired two rows of chicken down the middle with the baskets on the sides, they just seemed to cook more evenly to me?

[Hell Fire Grill]

Ill rotate the lid if the wind is deminishing the draft through the grill or to avoid blowing smoke directly out the vent.

[Travis]

There you go. It works for you and that's what matters! Glad you didn't get burnt to bad Grizz. Still love that handle...Jerimiah Johnson. I need to buy that movie


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[jaynik]

I rotate the lid.  1/4 time in each of the 4 quadrants if my heat is in the center which is normally is for wings.  For other 2 or 3 zone cooks, I turn the meat.

[fljoemon]

When I use the Vortex to cook my wings, the Vortex accessory is in the center, so the lid does get rotated to 3-6-9-12 every 15 minutes.

[blksabbath]

Mod month idea...Make a kettle lid that works like a giant kitchen egg timer.  No more manual lid rotation!


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