Survey. How long does your charcoal take to extinguish.

Tinyfish · January 2015

In a LBGE what is the average time it should take the charcoal to extinguish, no more red embers not dome to cool, after say an 1.5 hour cooking at 350-400 dome temp.

Is there a way to check for air leaks other then the dollar bill test. How would you test the bottom and top dampers for leaks.

anton · January 2015

I have gone back outside to egg an hour after cooking and still saw some red coals when I opened it, I usually see mine drop temp back to 0 after a few hours, If you don't have a good sealing gasket, it could take a little while even with all vents closed. Hope this helps you.

SkinnyV · January 2015

With the smokeware cap, too long.

Terrebandit · January 2015

I don't have a clue and I don't care. I just put the lid down, shut the vents, and walk away. There is always some lump leftover for the next cook.

cook861 · January 2015

Close vents and put cerimac cap on and forget it

Jeepster47 · January 2015

@Tinyfish ... is there a specific reason you want to know that piece of information?

Tjcoley · January 2015

For those who store in a garage this is important to prevent CO. It's surprising how long the Egg can keep a fire going.

http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1146798/long-burn-time-33-hours-on-one-load-in-lbge#latest

boochsr71 · January 2015

I am too busy enjoying the food to notice!!

Tinyfish · January 2015

Jeepster47 said:
@Tinyfish ... is there a specific reason you want to know that piece of information?

@Jeepster47 it just seems the charcoal is not going out fast enough, still glowing after 2.5 hours last night. I've read that the charcoal should exstinguish almost immediately. Not sure if my bottom vent is sealed tight. My gasket has a nice seal.

Jeepster47 · January 2015

@Tinyfish ... are you using the daisy wheel or the ceramic cap for shut down?

The bottom vent leaks a little air period ... a result of the design. Thus, the top cap is the primary "snuffer" component. What happens when you use the ceramic cap with a seal? No seal ... then use several layers of aluminum foil over the top before you add the ceramic cap.

Even with the ceramic cap, I've gone back and rekindled the fire after dinner ~ 30 to 45 minutes. Tailgaters should be able to give you a reasonable figure on time to extinguish in the smaller units.

CPARKTX · January 2015

Much longer with smokeware cap

Nick311 · January 2015

I would agree with about an hour and a half with the cooking temp around 350.

Jeepster47 · January 2015

@CPARKTX ... longer with the Smokeware cap? Yep, that's what I noticed also. Kind of the equivalent of snuffing with ugly daisy. But, the fix is so easy ... here's what @RRP made recently for a forum member:

Tinyfish · January 2015

Thanks all. I will try some of the advice given

YEMTrey · January 2015

I think I'm going to add some felt around the chimney on my XL.
The XL will take a couple of hours to cool down to a point I'm comfortable putting the cover back on. I know it's much smaller, but my Mini Maxx cools down in well under an hour and is cool to the touch and can be picked up and moved.

SkinnyV · January 2015

Is the smokeware guy aware of this issue with his cap?
Its $40 for a cute accessory that works in the rain and looks pretty good but as far as shutdown he should let buyers know "some" may want to keep their ceramic cap.

I've seen some here raise a stink about the CGW guy and his stuff at times , the smokeware is not without flaws especially to new users who mighy not be aware.

lousubcap · January 2015

Never worried about how long for the lump to die-just loosely monitored the temperature rate of decline and quantity of lump remaining the next time I used it. All seemed reasonable in that regard with my LBGE. If you pass the dollar bill test then the likelihood of any leak extending the fire is around your ceramic cap. I had to line the cap for my SBGE with foil as the seal was very poor.

Another contributor to the cool-down rate is the final cook temp and duration at that temp. Once the ceramic gets hot then the fire can be out for a few hours and your thermo will still be reading well above ambient. FWIW-

theyolksonyou · January 2015

Squarely in the don't know, don't care camp. All i know is there's always plenty left next time.

stlcharcoal · January 2015

Even if it takes 2-3 hrs to cool down, that doesn't mean the fire is still going. That ceramic holds a lot of heat--that's why these things work so damn good. You could have a leak, but it's probably not anything significant.

It doesn't take much O2 to keep a fire going in a BGE, especially if it was a 300-400+ fire. The heat component of the fire triangle is already there as is the fuel. Even if you remove the O2, the ceramic is still 200-300+ and the coals are much hotter. Both will start to cool off very slowly by means of radiation, but any O2 that sneaks into the BGE is going to slow the cool down process.

Zmokin · January 2015

Tinyfish said:

In a LBGE what is the average time it should take the charcoal to extinguish, no more red embers not dome to cool, after say an 1.5 hour cooking at 350-400 dome temp. Is there a way to check for air leaks other then the dollar bill test. How would you test the bottom and top dampers for leaks.

I never open mine to see when the embers are out because I know that by doing so I just let in a huge amount of oxygen. Once, I shutdown, I leave her for at least a couple of hours and if she feels cool enough, then I put the cover on. Quite often though, I don't go outside again at night so the cover may wait until the AM.

I do know that when I was using the Smokeware cap to shutdown, my shutdown times were much longer and onetime I was able to witness leaking smoke. since then, I now always use my ceramic cap for shutdown

RRP · January 2015

Jeepster47 said:

@CPARKTX ... longer with the Smokeware cap? Yep, that's what I noticed also. Kind of the equivalent of snuffing with ugly daisy. But, the fix is so easy ... here's what @RRP made recently for a forum member:

Tom, my recommendation before using this wooden disc was to take a flat brick and pass over the dome throat a time or two to knock down any build up of hills from creosote so that the wooden disc has a better chance to sit flat. OTOH a sheet of sandpaper on a flat board would do the same trick.

NPHuskerFL · January 2015

I've never timed it.

Ybabpmuts · October 11

Jeepster47 said:

@Tinyfish ... are you using the daisy wheel or the ceramic cap for shut down?

The bottom vent leaks a little air period ... a result of the design. Thus, the top cap is the primary "snuffer" component. What happens when you use the ceramic cap with a seal? No seal ... then use several layers of aluminum foil over the top before you add the ceramic cap.

Even with the ceramic cap, I've gone back and rekindled the fire after dinner ~ 30 to 45 minutes. Tailgaters should be able to give you a reasonable figure on time to extinguish in the smaller units.

The egg is kinda like an eskimo, it needs a nice tight seal to put the internal fire out.

See you in hell.

Canugghead · October 14

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Survey. How long does your charcoal take to extinguish.

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