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Originally Posted by Bludawg
What is in the water Pan? Do you have a wind brake set up?
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Originally Posted by Toast
Agree with above. No water in pan (but keep it in as a heat shield and drip pan).
It takes some serious coal to get a 22.5 up to those temps but they will last once your there.
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Originally Posted by volfan411
Do not know if you are using a roasting pan or not but yesterday I was doing a butt and had a large turkey roasting pan on lower rack to catch grease and mine would not get above 280. To my amazement when I removed the pan my temps went to 375 immediately.
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I did have the drip pan in with about 2" of sand ( haven't even tried water yet) and the bird directly on the top grate w/o roasting pan. Probably give pan in empty no sand next time.