Have you made your own ash pan?

drd217

I was wondering if anyone had ever made their own ash pan. It looks like a $3.00 metal dust pan could be cut into a curved shape with a pair of metal shears and work just fine to save several bucks.

Capt Frank

Easy enough I'm sure, but I use a shop vac for clean-up. Works great and a cheap 5gal or smaller can be had for around $20

Austin Egger

I just use a regular big plastic dust pan. Of course I never remove hot ash, but never really needed to.

drd217

I presently use a plastic pan with a straight edge and it seems to always be hard to maneuver along the curved edge. It seems a curved metal pan would be a lot cleaner to use.

ShedFarm

I have the curved one that BGE sells. The "curve" really only matches the large, and even then, ash seems to work its way between the egg and the pan. I think a better design would be to have only the sides cut back a bit, so you'd have a small lip to go under the front edge of the egg.

Carolina Q

I just use an old stainless mixing bowl. My egg is in a nest so I can hold the bowl under the bottom of the egg while I scoop out the ash. Wouldn't work if I had the egg in a table.

field hand

I use a wood stove ash shovel, a few bucks at farm/hardware store. Had to bend the sides a bit so it would fit into my xl vent. It's handle is long enough to go all the way across the egg. With the shovel, I can remove 80% of the ash, generslly good enough. I do use the shop vac from time to time to get it all out.

Barry
Marthasville, MO

PhilsGrill

Less than that... 99 cents...

EGGARY

That is what I was thinking. Nice idea.

Enjoy your weekend.

PhilsGrill

I sell the plans for $10.

thirdeye

Yeah, I have. Mine is kind of double duty as the bucket stores the ash until it's "dead out" (Smokey Bear mod), and the bucket can serve as a general garbage can whilst cookin'.

PhilsGrill

How does that work mounted in a table??

thirdeye

A table?? That would restrict my style too much. Heheheee. Plus, I have enough trouble as it is with snow on the wings...

transversal

You know some stuff, thirdeye!!

PhilsGrill

Let me guess... overnight snow fall????

jaydub58

I had been doing real well with a trimmed-up disposable aluminum pie pan, but you wizards on this site goy me thinking and I see our local Home Depot has a 3 gallon shop-vac for $24.99.
I think that's the future for me!

loco_engr

FlaPoolMan's "Southern Engineered" attachment to a shop vac:

fasteddiem

Thirdeye,

Love the BBQ tool rack! One of your inventions? BTW I'm following your Pork Butt Recipe tonight!

Eddie

fasteddiem

Thirdeye,

Love the BBQ tool rack! One of your inventions? BTW I'm following your Pork Butt Recipe tonight!

Eddie