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Kiln posts to raise your water/drip pan

Longtrain
Longtrain Posts: 61
edited November 2020 in EggHead Forum
My son being a ceramic engineer recommended these 1” kiln posts to provide an air space between the BGE platesetter and the water/drip pan. Tired of folder foil for the job.
About $20 on Amazon for a set of four 1” posts.


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  • GregW
    GregW Posts: 2,678
    Those are a great idea. Thanks
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  • ryantt
    ryantt Posts: 2,558
    I use 3inch ones to get my pizza stone high in the dome.  
    XL BGE, KJ classic, Joe Jr, UDS x2 


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  • mEGG_My_Day
    mEGG_My_Day Posts: 1,661
    Ceramic grill store sells them as well - I moved to these from the little green feet several years ago.  They work really well - and over time, more eco friendly and cheaper than foil balls. 
    Memphis, TN 

    LBGE, 2 SBGE, Hasty-Bake Gourmet
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    Or you could just use three rocks.

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • northGAcock
    northGAcock Posts: 15,173
    edited November 2020
    Longtrain said:
    My son being a ceramic engineer recommended these 1” kiln posts to provide an air space between the BGE platesetter and the water/drip pan. Tired of folder foil for the job.
    About $20 on Amazon for a set of four 1” posts.


    That is what I use between my plate setter and pizza stone. I don’t go as high as ryantt though. 
    Ellijay GA with a Medium & MiniMax

    Well, I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life,
    Run me out in the cold rain and snow
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,794
    I use 1/2"  SS nuts.  Work great.  I also use an old paella pan as a drip pan and if I gapped much higher the pan would be up against the cooking grid.  Whatever works-thanks for the suggestion here.  
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,455
    I use 1" copper plumbing elbows, though I have used even cheaper ceramic flower pot feet.
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 13,710
    edited November 2020
    I use copper elbows and  SS nuts as well. Also cranked out a batch of pucks with leftover high temp mortar this summer. 


    canuckland
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  • Kayak
    Kayak Posts: 700
    Luckily for me, I broke my plate setter a while back, so I took a brick set to it and made myself a collection of ceramic rectangles.

    Then I bought a pizza stone from CGS and that is my indirect setup now.

    Bob

    New Cumberland, PA
    XL with the usual accessories

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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,373
    Those look pretty hard to set up, straight, >hic< after you've haad a fee dinks...

    “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”

                  - Mark Twain 

    Ogden, UT, USA


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