Every now and again I end up needing to flip a whole lot of stuff at the same time, like all these carrots. It got exceptionally hot. I didn't try to close the bottom damper, cause I assumed it basically wouldn't matter with the top open. Would it? How do you manage your temperature when you need the dome open? It got very, very hot today.
by Thedancingsousa
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If you open your dome, you are feeding the coals way more oxygen no matter what you do. I feel like the cook itself here is flawed due to simply how much you’ve overloaded it- there’s no way that the meat, carrots and corn could possibly cook properly all at the same temp. This has to be better managed by sequencing it properly or getting a higher rack to split the lower temp stuff off to.
Open lid cooking is a shortcoming of kamado style cookers for sure. It’s very difficult to control the temp if you need to open the lid for any extended period of time.
Yeah nope. I don’t open lid.
Everything turned out pretty well, by the way! I just felt like I was going to burn my arm as I tried to flip the last few carrots. They got a little blackened, but were actually really tasty!
I keep an old Weber on-hand for cooks like this. It’s just too much with lump coal.