Coal setup for picnic smoke!

Unknown

How do you guys set up your eggs for smoking a picnic. I plan on pulled pork this weekend. I'm just wondering how you guys set up your coal for a nice even temp and were do you place your smoking wood in the pile lol. Thanks

Bacchus

Load up the lump charcoal to the fire ring, put wood on top, and fire it up.

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

click>> Elder Ward Method

Unknown

Wood on top. I agree. Bacchus, you sir, are a genius!

tach18k

I make sure my Egg is clean of ash, I remove all the parts and clean it out. I then just pour from the bag of lump, I light in three spots, 2, 6, 10, o'clock with my mapp gas torch, for about 30 seconds each, put in plate setter, empty drip pan, grate, close the lid and wait till 200-215 deg and close down the dampers to about 1/8 of an inch, and let it settle at 250 for 30 minutes before putting on meat. Looking at maybe 90 minutes from lighting to meat time. Then no looking back.

usudno

next question here... Coals set up with eler ward method... How should the egg be configured.. I have no place setter but i do have a pizza stone. any drip pan needed?? Thanks

Firetruck

usudno, welcome. I do use a drip pan just to keep some of the mess down.

usudno

how about the pizza stone?? how should i set up my egg?

tach18k

I dont use Elder's setup, never found a need to, never had a lump failure due to how the lump was poured from the bag. I would do this, put the grate on the fire ring, put on the pizza stone, put a 1/2 deep disposeable alum pizza pan on the stone, get 2 fire bricks from a local masonry supple yard, Put a grate from a Weber grill (home depot/lowes) on top of the bricks, and then the meat on that, that will give you a pretty good indirect steup. Keep the dome at 250 and not less.

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/firebricks.htm

2Fategghead

usudno, Welcome to the forum.

If you had two cooking grids I would place a foiled lined drip pan and the baking stone on one.

Then three thin fire bricks on edge and the second grid.

Or something along those lines.

Tim