WSCG - Amazing Fact Learned

[Crotonmark]

Last night I grilled some sausage and had too much charcoal in the pit
Following the advice of one of the Brethren I shut the upper and lower vents. Voila! The fire went out and all the left over charcoal is there for me to use next time! This is truly a miracle and includes some briquettes that are partially ashed over.
To me this is amazingly cool :shocked::shocked:

Just thought I would share.

Mark

 

[Ron_L]

Yep! Most kamado-type grills will let you do this!

 

[Crotonmark]

Yep! Most kamado-type grills will let you do this!

A first for me. Totally awesome.
Was gonna let it burn off and then I said let's try

 

[HouseDoc]

It is a money saving technique. I put new coals in bottom of chimney and add leftover on top.

 

[Happy Hapgood]

That rig has some WSM built into it. Very Cool!

 

[outie]

Doesn't a regular kettle let you shut off the top and bottom vents to kill the fire?

 

[mattmountz94]

Doesn't a regular kettle let you shut off the top and bottom vents to kill the fire?

Yea I do it a fair amount of cooks and my kettle leaks like crazy

 

[pjtexas1]

Yea I do it a fair amount of cooks and my kettle leaks like crazy

Same here. Leaks but fire still goes out.

 

[Histrix]

Doesn't a regular kettle let you shut off the top and bottom vents to kill the fire?

I know mine will snuff out coals for reuse. I thought they all would.

 

[Crotonmark]

I know mine will snuff out coals for reuse. I thought they all would.

Never tried

 

[cheez59]

I do this and have done this with every charcoal cooker I ever had. I really cannot remember the last time I cooked anything on my OTP where I used all fresh charcoal. Pretty much the same goes for the LSG.

 

[Demosthenes9]

Doesn't a regular kettle let you shut off the top and bottom vents to kill the fire?

Depends. If kettle/lid is out of round, or if blades of the OTS have bent a bit, or if your kettle is brand new and the rim hasn't gunked up yet, it might not seal up well enough and coals will still burn out.

 

[outie]

Depends. If kettle/lid is out of round, or if blades of the OTS have bent a bit, or if your kettle is brand new and the rim hasn't gunked up yet, it might not seal up well enough and coals will still burn out.

Got it. Makes sense.

 

[RolandJT]

I use the leftovers to start a minion/snake method long smoke.

I find using the leftover charcoal gets to TBS much quicker

 

[dadsr4]

If you have your coals banked along the side, to speed extinguishing them it helps to spread them out when you are done cooking.

 

[Learning to BBQ]

^^ That right there makes a BIG difference.

 

[krex1010]

Doesn't a regular kettle let you shut off the top and bottom vents to kill the fire?

Yep....and actually you can kill the fire just closing the top vents with the bottoms open.