rwalters
Quintessential Chatty Farker
After being set straight with my previous post...lol, I’d still go with the full upper grate for one main reason. Unless I am smoking a ton of food, I smoke everything on the upper grate. I like the results a bit more for two reasons:
-I feel that the smoke lingers around the food a bit more up high in the cooking chamber before exiting.
-There is less radiant heat as the food is further from the heat source. I feel that the food is cooked a bit more gentle, resulting in a tad more tender end product. Not that there is anything wrong with food cooked on the main grate!
With that said, the 3/4 grate would definitely be a bit easier to work with if you are often toggling food between 2 grates. Personally, I have just gotten use to carefully slipping my hands under the full upper grate with long tings or a spatula when needed.
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