Outdoor cooking - Barbecues, Barbecue, BBQs, BBQ, Smokers, Grills. And Ribs.

"Weber® Hinged Cooking Grate" is your friend.

Yup... I'd recommend getting the baskets as well, very handy... You can also do a very looooong smoked brisket using the snake technique, if you're crazy/keen... 🙃

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BBQ collection +1 achieved.

Will hopefully get a cook done mid week as a test.

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6kg Packer brisket marinaded. BBQ coming to temp now, 12 hours of cooking, and rest for 3.

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Awesome. Where did you source that slab of brisket?

Turner and George. But I suspect any [good] butcher if you ask for it.

Ah, we worked out way through most of a t&g BBQ box yesterday. Black label burgers were amazing.

Just had the bavette now. All good.

Pork butt and brisket next on my shopping list.

what kind of temperature monitoring set up do you use?

3:30am update- approaching “the stall”
Debate abounds- to crutch or not...
I’m not going to this time round. Will it be the error?

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I have a Maverick wireless temperature monitor but it's 6 years old now and, according to Amazon, has been supplanted by loads of bluetooth options.

I also have a single Meater probe but I only use that for indoor cooking.

If I needed a replacement I would check Amazing Ribs TBH.

09:00 update?

impressed by the rock solid temp of your smoker.

Which app is this?

That’s the big green egg app

And @giles337 as soul says, though it’s just a skin for the maker of the probe.

Now wrapped and resting.

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So I found a weber kettle for free on the street, brough it home and it looks like the bottom vents don't budge (the thing that clears the charcoal at the bottom). How bad of a problem is this?

Should be fixable. I leave mine open anyway and use the lid vent to regulate

WD40 that shit, it'll soon budge... And congrats!!

It budges but you really have to rattle it ... not quite safe with a snake method or briquettes that need to stay in place.

Going to try a lube ... this is its current state

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Bit of neat dish soap and a brillo pad will dissolve any fats and a general hose down afterwards will help. Same for the cooking grates.

Once done, WD40 the pin to get rid of the water then a good 3 in 1 oil to get things moving. The more rust you can remove mechanically the better.

Looks to be in good shape and it's a much more recent version than mine, mine has the vent on the outside... Did you get the two grates with it? There should be one for your coals and one for whatever you're cooking...

Yep it came with the grates. Just to need to get the bottom vent to move a bit freely. Then I’m good to go!

impressed by the rock solid temp of your smoker.

And then some.

Mine temps always look like saw teeth.

Is that vents of the cleaning system? Feel like it’s the later, which you can get replacements for. I reckon like others have said you can get that moving nicely. Either way great freebie

Was unreal.

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That looks so good