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MrCookingNurse
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Making pizza tonight and cleaned it out first.
So there's always post after post about not being able to get temps up. Well I always do a full clean ever couple of cooks but today wanted to post some pics if why and what I found.
The holes on the fire box the ones around the slope always get full of ash and you can just sweep around and let ash fall down and then suck or scoop out the bottom vent. But if you don't take it apart you miss all of this. I took a pic after I had already sucked some out, thought it would be a good idea. Behind my fire box I had aha built up all the way to those holes. Almost three inches high. This kills air flow and is biggest problem can't get fire up. Not the pics I really was hoping for but you'll get the idea.
Looking down
From the bottom vent
So there's always post after post about not being able to get temps up. Well I always do a full clean ever couple of cooks but today wanted to post some pics if why and what I found.
The holes on the fire box the ones around the slope always get full of ash and you can just sweep around and let ash fall down and then suck or scoop out the bottom vent. But if you don't take it apart you miss all of this. I took a pic after I had already sucked some out, thought it would be a good idea. Behind my fire box I had aha built up all the way to those holes. Almost three inches high. This kills air flow and is biggest problem can't get fire up. Not the pics I really was hoping for but you'll get the idea.
Looking down
From the bottom vent
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I haven't even read your thread and all I expected was another picture of your KY Jelly. Thank goodness I was wrong but still, they make pills for this stuff. :PJust a hack that makes some $hitty BBQ....
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Being in the medical field I'd think you could get your hands around (HAHA) some free samples.XL BGE
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Not the pics I really was hoping for but you'll get the idea.
These are MUCH better than the pics I was unfortunately expecting to see based off of the thread title!! )Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup... Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. - Bruce Lee -
Will this thread get a serious response? I highly doubt Mr. Focker...er I mean Mr. Cooking Nurse will based on his rep alone. :(|) ~:>Just a hack that makes some $hitty BBQ....
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Haha. I was hoping to get a good bit of views by the title alone. A method I've seen others use.
There are times for stokers, but not herecazzy said:I haven't even read your thread and all I expected was another picture of your KY Jelly. Thank goodness I was wrong but still, they make pills for this stuff. :P
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He can't get it up and its only three inches high is what I get out of this post.
This guy needs to get his ashes hauled......
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Always take all the parts out after a burn out, and clean out the ash.
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Ok, I'll admit it, to funny not to click and see what it was about! Then the comment about stokers! That had me ) ^:)^ X_X
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Always take all the parts out after a burn out, and clean out the ash.
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Give the egg some "food porn" pics and what it can create with your assistance. Ill be up in no time
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I was going to say to get a pair or twins (mini's of course) to do a low and slow together so it can watch.
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An- Ménegg à trois )
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Chattanooga, TN.
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You are doomed from ever getting a serious response.
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unless it your penis they're joking about
Everyone loves a good penis joke
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Sorry, couldn't help myself - is there anyway to pull comments down?There are no "Mis-steaks." Everything can be "Cured!" Have no fear. Go forth and "Egg-It!"
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