Breaking in my Charcoal Baskets

[jcnaz]

So for Father's Day I received a pair of charcoal baskets and I finally have time to mess around with them...
Put some Comp.K in the bottoms and foil in my drip pan...

Chimney 3/4 full of leftover charcoal from last week...

Gettin'hot!!!

Just some simple runnin'gear...

Let's see how this goes!

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[pyrate]

just tried mine too but direct for a small steak cook
I like em, for small cooks very handy

Why is the rum always gone

[jcnaz]

We like our chicken DONE at this house. Parts or whole (split and flattened) are usually done direct. Crispy skin and moist inside.
I cooked a whole bird last week with two banks of coals and it went well. I do like how the baskets are working out though!


Humming right along...
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30 minute mark.


60 minutes.


DONE!! 75 min. 
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[Chasing_smoke]

Nice cook! Looks great!


 "my kettle is more powerful it will do almost anything."

[jcnaz]

Thanks!
The chicken came out tasty and my ash pan is not full of half burned coals!

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[AZ_MIKEY]

Nice chicken there JC. where do you get your comp k from?

[Thin Blue Smoke]

Nice!  I just got the basket too and I love em.

[1911Ron]

Nice chicken there JC. where do you get your comp k from?

I get mine at Costco and have seen it at Walmart lately.

[Kilted_Griller]

Excellent Cook!!!

[MacEggs]

Nice looking quarters! 
I, too, am learning the whole cooking with baskets.
A bit of a learning curve, but it's fun! 

[jcnaz]

Nice chicken there JC. where do you get your comp k from?

I get mine at Costco and have seen it at Walmart lately.

I get it at Costco also.

Thanks for looking!!

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[Duke]

Those leg quarters look perfect!

[One Touch Platinum]

When I got my Weber I made sure that Lowes gave me the baskets with it. Unfortunately I have never really had too much success with them...at least in the traditional sense. I use them to raise cooking pans off of the grate...E.G. Pizza and Cheesecake. I have used them for focused high heat cooking too....I was trying to get max heat for searing and had good results but actually had a cast iron pan sitting directly on the blazing baskets. I have tried to use them for a couple of low and medium cooks ( not quite as long as low and slow  ) but I had the same problems I had using my vertical smoker....The baskets get full of ash and choke themselves out. For shorter higher heat cooking I do like the direction control you get with them and the fact that you can move your heat source from one end of the grill to the other ...if you so choose but I have never had much luck with the Minion method using them.

[colin.p]

I bought a set of baskets a couple weeks ago and I'm not too sold on them as of yet. They work "ok"(a bit too small), but I still prefer using the "naked" set-up of just dumping coals behind firebricks. However, I can see how they might prevent premature porcelain damage. I will have to try a bigger setup ala MacEggs (http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/weber-kettles-accessories/been-doing-some-fabricating-%28pic-heavy%29/) or maybe make up a shield that would allow me to keep the coal from direct contact with the side, still allowing me to use more space behind the bricks.

[jcnaz]

Today I am doing a low/slow batch of St. Louis ribs and using a snake.
I am loving the baskets for the 1-2 hour indirect cooks though!

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