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Maxing out the mini

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Essex County
Essex County Posts: 991
edited November -1 in EggHead Forum
I use my mini for small cooks, a couple of steaks or chicken breasts, but I'm sure some of you have really tested its capacity. What's the most food or biggest cook you've done on a mini?[p]Paul

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  • Unknown
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    <p />Essex County,[p]4.2 pound pork butt.[p]Dave

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  • Grillicious
    Grillicious Posts: 347
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    Essex County, I'll be interested in the responses to this. I've seen posts where folks had a raised grid setup, which is the only approach that I can think of for increasing surface area. I'm am considering a setup like the Woo-ring that Sandbagger made for Woodoggies, and cooking on two levels.
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  • Grillicious
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    I dug out some of the photos I saved from previous posts for planning my own. Sorry I can't remember who posted what for proper credit.[p]One is a raised grid using a 9" x 1" or 2" (I can't remember which) cake pan:
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    The pan itself:
    expandablebakingringasagridlifter.gif
    And a Woo-ring type setup:
    Miniraisedgrid1.jpg
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  • Sandbagger
    Sandbagger Posts: 977
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    Grillicious, hey I remember that ring...one of my better weld jobs, or was it grinding jobs on the welds....probably the later....LOL [p]
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  • Clay Q
    Clay Q Posts: 4,486
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    Essex County,
    Just for fun I did a small bone in butt, indirect setup. 10 hours and two loads of lump later I had pulled pork. Don't have the need to ever do that again. I managed to pile in 4 Idaho bakers, had to take out the thermometer. It worked. Tried to bake a small bread boule but it grew and plugged up the top vent. That did not work. Over the weekend I thought I could sear two ribeyes at a time but it was just a tad crowded end to end. I cooked a one pound hamburger, it was "great"... my 19 year old son, gulp, burrrrrp, said.
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  • Wise One
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    Essex County, I've done a 4-lb pork butt (as someone else said, now that I've done it, I don't need to do it again) but the most I've really gotten on at one time was four 1/3-lb hamburgers. It was pretty crowded but they did just fine. Took a bit of time to get the spatula under each one but it all worked out.

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