How did you go about the minion method?
I have found that without a basket it is hit or miss as to how well the minion method will work in my off set. Once I made a charcoal basket it works rather well. I still have to keep a close eye on temps and adjust the air intakes as needed but it will go 3 or so hours on a single fill running at 250 + or - 20.
I have made a few mods to my hondo for this weekends cook. I lowered my fire basket (I think I had raised it too high before) and redesigned my baffle. I am pretty sure I had too much bafflage
going on. I am hoping I get better draw this cook, I had trouble getting it up
to temp the last time.
You can just see the basket I made in the firebox. Two sides are expanded metal the other two sides are solid steel. (no real reason except I ran out of expanded metal
)
I am sort of a temp freak. I like to know exactly what my temps are at all times and across the entire cooker. I would suggest picking up even a inexpensive digital therm and using it to monitor what you pit temps are. You can check how accurate the therm is by sticking it in boiled water. It not the best test but if it is reading way off of 212 or so then you will know how far to adjust your temps. Like the temp gauge in the door of the Hondo, it runs about 50 degrees hotter than at grate level so even thought it is off, I can still use it to accurately tell what my grate level temp is.
The food looks good BTW!
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