I have a similar chile holder/cooker that I will share something about. I typically cook colby jack/creamcheese stuffed bacon wrapped jalapenos when I have the stick burner at the house. I have always used 2 toothpicks about 2/3 of the way up from the bottom of the pepper inserted at a perpindicular cross to one another. The peppers lean over on their sides like this but at about a 30 or 40 degree angle. I don't know why, but that was how I deemed as the easiest until i got the chile cooker. However, the one thing the chile cooker does EVERY time is allows all the grease from the cheese to sit and cook into the bottom of the peppers. It wilts them badly on the bottoms and for some reason really makes the peppers hotter (tasting not temp). If they're leaned over, at least for me they look much better and taste much better as well....