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Any Creative Ideas for Creating an Air Gap?
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TEggSun
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Hi folks. I am doing a low and slow pork butt tonight, and I was hoping I could get some creative ideas on effective methods for creating and air gap between the plate setter and the drip pan. I neglected to do it last time and came out a bit funky. :-)
One complication: The drip pan I was planning to use barely fits between the grid (raised to felt level) and the plate setter, so I don't have much room to work with.
Thanks!
Transplanted from Austin, Texas to Medina, Ohio
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fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it -
Ball up aluminum foil and put a piece under each corner of the pan.
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Makes sense, @fishlessman. About how much of a gap is needed?Transplanted from Austin, Texas to Medina, Ohio
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Use the feet that came with your egg (if they did). Second is to make 4 balls of foil. So where are you lining now (city). If ever you want to do a Turbo just ask.Salado TX & 30A FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Plus a couple Pit Boss Pellet Smokers.
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I'm in Austin (Cedar Park), @Mickey. I was in Oklahoma City for about 4 years a while back, but moved back home about 5 years ago.Transplanted from Austin, Texas to Medina, Ohio
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Salado TX & 30A FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Plus a couple Pit Boss Pellet Smokers.
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Todd get one of the above. You will never look back. You still with big d's?Salado TX & 30A FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Plus a couple Pit Boss Pellet Smokers.
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Yep. Seems like the thing to do.Transplanted from Austin, Texas to Medina, Ohio
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I've crushed some aluminum beer cans and used those in lieu of foil. I'm recycling the cans anyway, might as well put them to use!LBGE with a massive wish listAthens, Ga.
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Make sure they're PBR cans, though. Other cans don't work.LBGE with a massive wish listAthens, Ga.
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That gives me an excuse to crack into a 12 pack on a weeknight. :-)Transplanted from Austin, Texas to Medina, Ohio
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Use a big piece of foil and crimp it around the edges so that the foil makes a pan inside the pan, but does not reach the bottom. Like so (using water for demonstration purposes):Which came first the chicken or the egg? I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg.
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I had some 80/20 aluminum extrusion laying around to cut it into small pieces and use them as spacers.Pittsburgh, PA
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I'm sorry, but did any other Fellow Chivers immediately think of Mind the Gap?Just a hack that makes some $hitty BBQ....
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Whats the purpose of the airgap?
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cazzy said:I'm sorry, but did any other Fellow Chivers immediately think of Mind the Gap?Persistence and determination are omnipotent!
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Air gap between setter or stone and the drip pan keeps the "spooge" in the drip pan from burning. @TEggSun I'd get a smaller drip pan, like @SmokingPitt use a disposable if you have to and line it. I use a dollar store cooling rack, it raises the drip pan about 1/2" and the drip pan is stable.Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
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I put a coat of salt in my pan.Salado TX & 30A FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Plus a couple Pit Boss Pellet Smokers.
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Cake cooling rack. Stands proud about 1/4 inch and cheap to purchase.Large, small and mini now Egging in Rowlett Tx
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Austin Egghead said:Cake cooling rack. Stands proud about 1/4 inch and cheap to purchase.
Salado TX & 30A FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Plus a couple Pit Boss Pellet Smokers. -
Lowes has terracotta pot holders, cheap and will last as long as your egg. About and inch or so thick.
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Large and Small BGE, Blackstone 36 and a baby black Kub.
Chattanooga, TN.
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Next time you're in a hardware store (Home Depot, Lowe's, whatever), pick up 4 steel 1/2 inch nuts. Work great, don't wear out, plenty of space, not too much.John in the Willamette Valley of Oregon
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I pull a piece of THIN aluminum foil across my egg and let it drip and evaporate! But i turbo cook them.
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I just use four 1/2" nuts.Mike
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The 30 cent solution. Stack 2 high x 3 stacks. You can wrap them in foil and reuse them.
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Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN
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)henapple said:#1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February 2013 • #3 Mini May 2013A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
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