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Charcoal

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edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
If I fill charcoal to line and use electric starter, how long should it take for fire to be ready for grilling? Seems I spend as much time waiting on charcoal as I do cooking! I am beginner and I guess am intimidated.
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  • Unknown
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    Donna at towers7l,
    Coals will light in about 6-8 minutes. Take out the starter, put in the grid (or platesetter and such), close the lid and leave the daisy wheel and bottom vent wide open. Stay kind of close to the grill for a few minutes. When the temp starts getting close to your cooking temp, close the bottom vent to about the width of two fingers and close the daisy wheel to about 50%. Then....just adjust the vents by opening or closing them until the temp stabilizes. It takes practice, but I go from dead cold to meat-on in about 15 minutes now.
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  • thirdeye
    thirdeye Posts: 7,428
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    <p />Donna at towers7l,[p]Don't know what you mean by "filling to line" but here is a pic of my electric starter and enough lump for either a grilling fire or a 7 or 8 hour lo-n-slo fire, like for ribs.[p]For starting, I let the electric coil run for 9 or 10 minutes, then let the coals burn for another 20 to 30 minutes to stabilize at the cooking temps I want to use.[p]~thirdeye~[p]
    Happy Trails
    ~thirdeye~

    Barbecue is not rocket surgery
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    Donna: Over the years I have used just about every method of starting LUMP as exist. I setteled on the use of MAPP Gas. These are the tall skinny YELLOW tanks with the tourch end. Pick up at Walmart or any hard ware store.

    I hold the torch tip very close to the lump shooting the flame under a few pieces. I hold there for 15-20 seconds, I do this in four places around the egg those being: 12:00, 7:00, 4:00 and dead center.

    Close the lid and make sure the bottom slide door is wide open and the cap off. In about 5-8 minutes you wiil have a temp of about 300-350 which is where I do all of my cooking.

    This, in my opinion is the fastest way to bring up the temp and get ready for cooking.

    Just my 2 cents worth......no change needed.

    Salty
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