How do you add charcoal if you needed to mid-cook?
Or just put in the right amount to begin with?
Only kamado style I have is a Joe Jr and the couple times I’ve made a small pork shoulder I find myself having to take everything out to add
by Smilner69
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smkythefrignbear
I’ve run mine for over 24 hours without refueling. This thing is insanely efficient.
riders_of_rohan
The grates have handles or lips you can grab onto if they need to be removed. Buy heat resistant cooking cloves or mittens. It’s something you should have anyways when working with charcoal or briquettes.
ssibal24
My longest cook on this was about 14 hours at around 250 degrees and I still had about half of the coals leftover (I always fill the charcoal grate). A full load of charcoal on this cooker, cooking at around 250 should last you close to 30 hours.
lostdragon05
You can fit a LOT of fuel in the bottom below the diffuser. I’d imagine whatever you can fit in the cook chamber would be done before you run out of fuel. I got mine a few months ago and really like it. Installed a Venom from Spider Grills on it last night and did some burgers, steaks, and dogs, which was great.
I previously used a Thermaworks Billows, but it was not very good at higher temps where the Venom got temp to 500 and held easily for searing. Billows and Smoke X4 was good at low and slow, will see how the Venom is on that type of cook this weekend. This is my second Venom and the first one works great at everything on a regular kettle, so I expect the new one on the Summit to do well also.
EC_TWD
It’s really easy to do it’s wide open, take a closer look at the picture you attached. It’s a bitch to get it to hold temp though.
But seriously, these will cook for 20+ hours. Beyond that point this probably isn’t the right tool anyway
StevenG2757
Just add enough and you wont need to add.
When I first purchased mind I did a test and ran a full load of charcoal and it ran at 225 for 36 hours.
Individual_Walk_4377
You won’t have to 🤙
Knooze
Dude. I’ve filled the bottom charcoal grate to the max and for a 12 hr pork shoulder and it might have ignited 20% of it. Keep in mind, that is in PHX AZ with warmer and dry weather, but it’s just comical how little fuel it uses for smoking. Somewhere someone must have posted a total smoke burn time.
Indirect or SNS stuff I think is more similar to a regular kettle, and searing is searing since it’s wide open.
Environmental_Law767
One of the coolest mods I’ve ever seen for a kamadoon the yootoobies was a crescent slice cut out of the ceramic deflector plate using an angle grinder. That just opened up a hole through which fuels could be dropped. I don’t have a kamado myself so I don’t know if that’s something anyone else would want to do.
nololoco
Never had to…
OndoTheFaceless
Huntsman by Spider Grills solves this problem brilliantly.
buckysbbqshack
You won’t need to add charcoal mid cook. I’ve got my Summit to run at 300°for 29 hours straight on one full load of Jealous Devil briquettes with 5 cherry wood chunks.
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I’ve run mine for over 24 hours without refueling. This thing is insanely efficient.
The grates have handles or lips you can grab onto if they need to be removed. Buy heat resistant cooking cloves or mittens. It’s something you should have anyways when working with charcoal or briquettes.
My longest cook on this was about 14 hours at around 250 degrees and I still had about half of the coals leftover (I always fill the charcoal grate). A full load of charcoal on this cooker, cooking at around 250 should last you close to 30 hours.
You can fit a LOT of fuel in the bottom below the diffuser. I’d imagine whatever you can fit in the cook chamber would be done before you run out of fuel. I got mine a few months ago and really like it. Installed a Venom from Spider Grills on it last night and did some burgers, steaks, and dogs, which was great.
I previously used a Thermaworks Billows, but it was not very good at higher temps where the Venom got temp to 500 and held easily for searing. Billows and Smoke X4 was good at low and slow, will see how the Venom is on that type of cook this weekend. This is my second Venom and the first one works great at everything on a regular kettle, so I expect the new one on the Summit to do well also.
It’s really easy to do it’s wide open, take a closer look at the picture you attached. It’s a bitch to get it to hold temp though.
But seriously, these will cook for 20+ hours. Beyond that point this probably isn’t the right tool anyway
Just add enough and you wont need to add.
When I first purchased mind I did a test and ran a full load of charcoal and it ran at 225 for 36 hours.
You won’t have to 🤙
Dude. I’ve filled the bottom charcoal grate to the max and for a 12 hr pork shoulder and it might have ignited 20% of it.
Keep in mind, that is in PHX AZ with warmer and dry weather, but it’s just comical how little fuel it uses for smoking. Somewhere someone must have posted a total smoke burn time.
Indirect or SNS stuff I think is more similar to a regular kettle, and searing is searing since it’s wide open.
One of the coolest mods I’ve ever seen for a kamadoon the yootoobies was a crescent slice cut out of the ceramic deflector plate using an angle grinder. That just opened up a hole through which fuels could be dropped. I don’t have a kamado myself so I don’t know if that’s something anyone else would want to do.
Never had to…
Huntsman by Spider Grills solves this problem brilliantly.
You won’t need to add charcoal mid cook. I’ve got my Summit to run at 300°for 29 hours straight on one full load of Jealous Devil briquettes with 5 cherry wood chunks.
That’s the neat part….