Great weekend, a few "lessons" learned

Well we had a gorgeous weekend here in the UK and I got to play with my Medium a bit. I got some more band bolts but haven't fitted them yet.

1. I was tipping some lit lump in from a chimney and a small piece fell through landing on the edge of the folded egg mate - no worries just getting it worn in, that burn mark is a badge of honour.

2. I was lighting the Weber kettle (yes I know that's sacrilege here but spouse acceptance is key) and thought I’d just tip a couple lit of briquettes into the egg to get the lump in that going – “just in case I needed it for that chicken I had spatchcocked..”
Without realising what I was doing I rested the (very) hot chimney on the felt gasket while trying to nudge a couple of briquettes in.
Hmm – not total disaster but not pretty either – let’s hope it doesn’t get worse.

3. It just so happens that the aforementioned chicken ended up on the egg ;-) indirect on an upturned platesetter with drip pan. Towards the end of the cook I wanted to crisp it up a little. So, off with the laden grate (courtesy of my third hand – very easy), then lift out the drip pan, an aluminium pizza tray over a steel one, – which had become wedged between the platesetter legs.
Conscious of the fact that I was wearing shorts and a tee shirt and the oven gloves weren’t holding up too well I realised I had to set the whole lot down briefly before finding a place for them to cool and then separate them not risking life and limb or platesetter. Popped them on the table part of the Weber for a moment, put the bird back in the egg (direct) and then moved the platesetter.
Well the Weber table is stainless sheet metal that is also, rather irritatingly, a lid into a storage bin where I keep some bits. I had resigned myself that I may easily get a big heat stain but would accept that. Amazingly no stain but it was a bit warped – should have thought about the expansion effects. Instinctively I just tried to smooth it back.
It was still surprisingly hot and did something interesting to my fingerprints which has given me a hard time logging in to my work PC this morning!
Nothing serious just the ego dented, still – it’s not as if anyone saw it, or knows!

4. On Friday night’s cook my wife caught me taking some photos and has almost given up on me so I’m afraid I haven’t had the nerve to get the camera out much.

I know you all like pics so I’ll try and put a link to a photobucket album, meanwhile here’s something I did earlier:


And possibly an album on photobucket of misc pics.

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y82/jamesmbphoto/BGE/

OK I'm not sure if they'll work but at least I've tried!