What To Do With Those Little Pieces Of Old Lump

I decided to do some more testing & cooking. You can see the cook below but here is the rest of the story.

I always seem to have small pieces of used lump left over. What to do...

Toss them, burn them off, heck they are always problems with starting and getting to high temperatures.

Enough was enough, most of the pieces were the size of my sizable thump or smaller. Smaller being down to falling through the fire grate.

In my large, I stirred the lump making all the holes in the fire grate and fire box were clear. I put more small lump in the fire box to just above fire ring.

Since I am playing around I decided to light with alcohol. I just put 2 oz on the left of center and 2 oz right of center. Waited 30 to 45 seconds and light the egg.

I used to leave the dome open for a little while then close it down. But right now I am on a stike kick.

Light and close the dome is the order of the day.
DFMT off bottom screen and slider full open.

The usual up temperature spike - 750° then the fall back down to 250°. 7.5 minutes and back up to 300°.

Closed the screen and then closed the slider to about about 3/8" open. DFMT slider closed and petals open about 1/2 open. Put in some Jack Daniels smoking chips in. In went the adjustable rig and the grid. Opened the petals to about 3/4 and the large settled in at 340°.

Cooking in 11 minutes from ignition. Not bad at all for pretty small pieces of lump.

Maybe the trick is not to fill the fire box up full because there was not a thing wrong with this fire.

Went through the chicken cook posted below and now time for more playing.

What can all this little lump do. Took off the DFMT and fully opened the screen and slider.

So what can these small pieces of lump do?

7 minutes later.







This is how the burn grew while taking pictures



Don't toss the small stuff away.

GG