I got an early Father’s Day gift from my mother! This is my first grill / smoker set up and I’m ready to get smokin. What tips and tricks can you give me?
by Dirtypickle332
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ThrowRA_boozebag31
Ooooo if this is from Walmart (Expert Grill I believe is their brand) this was my old grill and I got a shit load of cooking done on it
It did eventually start falling apart (lid wouldnt close shut, wheel fell off, charcoal basket got crooked) but to be fair, I was super-duper rough on it
I moved on to a Weber kettle but I miss this raise/lower charcoal basket and charcoal door. Just add or remove charcoal without the hassle of moving cooking grates or food and getting perfect steaks/burgers was super easy cause you could control how close the fire was to the meat (saved my ass during some grease flare ups)
I’m getting nostalgic here. Cooked my first steak on this bad boy
gaurddog
I picked one of these up for free off the side of the road, rusted off handles, an a bent shelf. I have been looking for a grill to take to a job site so we could grill on the job when things were slow, and had planned to buy a $50 Weber, but this happened into my life at the exact right moment.
And we got two years of good solid grilling out of it. It was great for temperature control, you could do everything from burgers and dogs to tilapia and salmon. I probably ran over 300 lb of meat through it over the course for a few years on that job.
Far as I know, it’s still in use. I left that job during covid and never went back, but from what I hear it’s still sitting where we left it, and occasionally getting used on folks birthdays and holidays
SysAdminSysSadmin
Those little grills last surprisingly long. I think my dad had one 5-10 years. If you’re going to attempt to smoke on it, try the snake method.
If you wanna do some smoking with it, make your coal bed to one side, put your meat on the opposite side with the grate raised up. Open the bottom vent by the coals a tad, then the top vent by the meat. Worked pretty good for me when I started on that one. Look up the snake method. I have some thin bricks that I’d use as little walls and make a little zigzag snake at the far end for my fuel.
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Ooooo if this is from Walmart (Expert Grill I believe is their brand) this was my old grill and I got a shit load of cooking done on it
It did eventually start falling apart (lid wouldnt close shut, wheel fell off, charcoal basket got crooked) but to be fair, I was super-duper rough on it
I moved on to a Weber kettle but I miss this raise/lower charcoal basket and charcoal door. Just add or remove charcoal without the hassle of moving cooking grates or food and getting perfect steaks/burgers was super easy cause you could control how close the fire was to the meat (saved my ass during some grease flare ups)
I’m getting nostalgic here. Cooked my first steak on this bad boy
I picked one of these up for free off the side of the road, rusted off handles, an a bent shelf. I have been looking for a grill to take to a job site so we could grill on the job when things were slow, and had planned to buy a $50 Weber, but this happened into my life at the exact right moment.
And we got two years of good solid grilling out of it. It was great for temperature control, you could do everything from burgers and dogs to tilapia and salmon. I probably ran over 300 lb of meat through it over the course for a few years on that job.
Far as I know, it’s still in use. I left that job during covid and never went back, but from what I hear it’s still sitting where we left it, and occasionally getting used on folks birthdays and holidays
Those little grills last surprisingly long. I think my dad had one 5-10 years. If you’re going to attempt to smoke on it, try the snake method.
[Example video on a rectangular grill](https://youtu.be/bvYUSMJUszM)
If you wanna do some smoking with it, make your coal bed to one side, put your meat on the opposite side with the grate raised up. Open the bottom vent by the coals a tad, then the top vent by the meat. Worked pretty good for me when I started on that one. Look up the snake method. I have some thin bricks that I’d use as little walls and make a little zigzag snake at the far end for my fuel.