Re: [CH] [OT again] chimney starters
Jim Graham (spooky130u@gmail.com)
Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:02:39 -0600
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:48:42AM -0800, Dana Myers wrote:
> On 11/25/2010 9:48 AM, Jim Graham wrote:
> More airflow == hotter fire, less airflow == cooler fire.
Ok, that makes so much sense I can remember it even with chemobrain on
full right now....
> I'm pretty sure the ECB you're using has no adjustable dampers
correct.
> If the cooker wants to run at 300F, it's going to run at 300F
> and that's the temperature you're going to cook at.
It did cool down to 250, and has maintained that, so I guess it's just
a question of adjust, check, adjust again, check, etc.....
> (I've probably mentioned before that I prefer the Weber bullets.
> Expensive up-front but they just work. Add a power-draft controller
> and they just work like an appliance, set the temperature and go to
> bed or whatever)
Sounds like it's WAY out of my budget.
> Sometimes I need to use two batches of paper to ignite a chimney-load,
> it depends on how long the charcoal has been sitting around soaking-up
> humidity. Usually a freshly-opened bag of charcoal ignites easily
> and a bag that's been open a long time doesn't.
And that answers that! My charcoal today has been open (half-used bag)
since the first time I posted here after buying the ECB (earlier this
year...in April or May, I think). It's been in a container outside,
bag rolled up to "close" it...and the humidity here can be anywhere
between the 30% to 40% range in the Fall, to 99% or 100% (currently
91% as I type this). So your explanation fits perfectly. That's fine.
As long as I know this much, I can deal with it.
Thanks again for the info.
--jim
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