thirtydaZe
Full Fledged Farker
New to the Kamado world, I have a question about the diffuser plate. Is it intended to spread the heat across the area of the smoker evenly, or is it more to keep the temp of the cooker down?
My first cook i used the minion method with 1/4 chimney of lit charcoal using the diffuser plate, then i choked the smoker way down and it maintained 250*.
2nd cook same thing, no diffuser plate, grilled burgers.
3rd cook, last night, pizza. I got creative and bought a looftlighter, lit 2 spots in my charcoal, put in the diffuser plate, and opened the smoker all the way up to really get some fire and heat generated. I could only get to about 275*.
It looked, as far as i could see, that there was a nice fire burning.
Now i'm all confused. did i not get enough fire initially with the looft? Did the diffuser plate keep the temp down?
Do i kick my own @ss for buying the looft? I really loved my chimney, just wanted something new to play with.
My first cook i used the minion method with 1/4 chimney of lit charcoal using the diffuser plate, then i choked the smoker way down and it maintained 250*.
2nd cook same thing, no diffuser plate, grilled burgers.
3rd cook, last night, pizza. I got creative and bought a looftlighter, lit 2 spots in my charcoal, put in the diffuser plate, and opened the smoker all the way up to really get some fire and heat generated. I could only get to about 275*.
It looked, as far as i could see, that there was a nice fire burning.
Now i'm all confused. did i not get enough fire initially with the looft? Did the diffuser plate keep the temp down?
Do i kick my own @ss for buying the looft? I really loved my chimney, just wanted something new to play with.