I see it is ok to burn wood with the charcoal. Is anybody firing their cooker on wood alone? Our old offset cooker ran on just wood. thanx!
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Their website answers a similar question thus: Q: Can I add wood chips for flavor? A: Absolutely, even though people are blown away by the results of only using Kingsford Original you can add wood chips/smoke blocks to add additional smoke. Q: Do I have to use Kingsford Briquets? A: For the best results and to have all the guess work taken out we recommend Kingsford Original Briquets (blue & white bag). We advise against using Matchlight Briquets reason being that you want the briquets to slowly burn from the top to the bottom. Q: Can I use lump charcoal or other brands of charcoal in the PBC? A: To achieve consistent and outstanding results every time we recommend using Kingsford Original (blue & white bag), lump charcoal will burn much hotter and cook times will vary.
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Any pot you can use on a stove top will work equally well on the Weber side cooker. The real benefit is that cooking odors and the heat from the fire reman outside.
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I've never tried it over charcoal, but considering how hot charcoal gets, it should work just fine. I would consider contacting Camp Chef and ask the question before trying though.
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I would not burn wood/biomass indoors. Once the stove gets going it is less smokey, but will generate lots of smoke during startup or while adding fuel. I have not used the alcohol burner attachment, but that would definitely be better for a low ventilation area. I love this stove, but it is basically a mini campfire (I did use it in a 3 sided AT shelter, but depending on wind the smoke was annoying)
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you'll need to pull the grate off and reload as you did the original load. But, the efficiency of this cooker is crazy good. I put a 2 large handfulls of lump charcoal and 4 good size chucks of water soaked cheery to smoke and smoked a brisket for a total of 7 hours and had probably a handful of fuel left when I shut it down so, I can imagine that load would have taken me 10 hours of cooking time easily. SO, reloading charcoal may not be all that neccesery.
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I haven't bought the burner yet since I'm waiting for someone else to confirm how much you can boil with it! I have my first extract kit waiting on the shelf for the new year. An acquaintance is going to come over and walk me through the process. I expect we'll do the same thing you are start with a half-portion and dilute it.I make hard cider, so the only high-cost item I had to buy was a wort cooler. Please let me know how the burner performs! I'd like to be able to do some of the work out of the kitchen...Al
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I use the side fire box when I'm smoking anything. I use charcoal, charcoal and wood, or just wood. With the side firebox the food is in a different chamber then the heat source so burning is not big problem. One modification I would strongly recommend it to clamp a short piece of 3" flexible aluminum duct the smoke stack inside the the cooking chamber just long enough to come down to the cast iron grates. This forces the heat and smoke to travel all the way across the chamber at the grates level before exiting the smoker. I found that this gives a much more even temp. to the whole cooking area. You won't go wrong with the Char-Griller units. A plus for the side fire box is that it comes with it's own grill surface and can be used by it self when you just want to grill up a few hot dogs or burgers.
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When in the smoking configuration, you have to cook with charcoal. Only charcoal will hold the fire long and cool enough to get the job done. Wood can be added to the coal fire for the sake of smoking the food [and should be!]. I have used mesquite, hickory, apple, cherry...etc. If you buy bags of wood for smoking, I recommend you use chunks instead of chips. You get a longer, smoldering, smoky burn that way. If you set the unit up in the grilling configuration, you can cook with wood if you prefer campfire type grilling, as I do.
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Yes, you can throw some wood chips in the charcoal and keep put the lid on. This would would work best with indirect cooking and given the size of this Smokey Joe it may just not be big enough.
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Perfect!!! That's all I cook with is charcoal...best drumsticks I ever had...try injecting them also
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Funny you should ask.....I have been experimenting with different types of wood as well as charcoal mixes, this biolite is simply incredible! Try it and let me know! Hope it works out!
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Yes, throw it in the fire. I put it in after the fire is going well. And yes, I like Creosote Destroyer. It works for me. I'm the kind of person that might sometimes burn wood that was not prime fuel, which makes me concerned about build up in my chimney. I burn a lot of construction debris.
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I cook for 2 most of the time.I use little charcoal . When you close all the vents, it goes out and I reuse the left over charcoal.
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I would only use charcoal because in the video it specifies "charcoal grill." If you prefer wood, I would Google a wood chip grill.
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YES you can!! I have done a full meal including buffalo burgers, rice and broccoli. I used the coleman backpacker grate over the fire. I clip the handles with a large office paper clip so they dont swing back to the pot. It works very well which is why I got it. I like wood fire cooking!
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You can use wood but I don't know why you would bother. A 12-14 pound of even the cheapest self-lighting charcoal will last up to 4 and 1/2 hours, which is more than enough to cook even the largest butts or briskets you can fit inside it. I can imagine starting it with wood and adding the charcoal, but not the other way around as wood in the size you need to fit the Orion would burn down too quickly.
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I am not 100% sure if you can or cannot use charcoal. We have only used wood.