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How often do you clean out the ashes?

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  • PSC
    PSC Posts: 148
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    Always before a low&slow or before a 650º pizza cook.

    Also when there's a lot of ash beneath, like 4-5 normal cooks.

    I take out the fire grate and clean the ash with an ash shovel, 3-4 minutes, no biggie...
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  • WeberWho
    WeberWho Posts: 11,029
    edited July 2016
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    Kick Ash Basket rules when cleaning the egg. The main reason why I've purchased them. Never had an issue with air or temps but makes clean up stupid easy. I can't tell you how many times I'd catch the fire grate with the ash tool and knock it out of place. Might worth looking into for cleaning your egg
    "The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan

    Minnesota
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  • flyerdoc
    flyerdoc Posts: 141
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    I used to clean it out every 4 cooks or so, but since I bought a KAB I do it after every cook, its too easy NOT to do it!
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  • cheeaa
    cheeaa Posts: 364
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    whenever it looks full. Probably like every 10 cooks?? Ash tool and scrape it into the Webers ash can. dump in woods
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  • jeponline
    jeponline Posts: 290
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    KAB is definitely on my list of future purchases, but lump and meat come first while I'm still recovering from the initial purchase of the egg. 
    Large BGE
    Huntsville, AL
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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 19,094
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    Clean ashes?  I wondered why they slowly stopped working.

    I just keep getting new clean eggs.
    They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That's against their interests. - George Carlin
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 32,384
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    @Ozzie_Isaac - no wonder you had such a large van sitting at your house to haul all your BGE's.  Safe travels.
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period.
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