Charcoal questions
My wife and I grill about every 4-5 days, whether we're at home or on the road. At home, we have a Char Broil infrared gas grill that does pretty well. For the road, we bought a highly rated portable...
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By the way all, I might should mention that my wife and I don't camp full time. We're both in our fifties and we get away on weekends, but then we're back at work on Monday.
If we camped for months at a time, packing up a grill and setting it out, only having to clean it once in a long while, would be worth it. But on such short trips---not so much.
I was thinking about Webers, etc. The coals have room underneath for air to enter and stoke them. If I could just get the coals an inch or two off the ground, I thought they'd burn better.
The linked items look pretty sweet. Perhaps one day...
I'll have to check and see if the grade can be moved to vertical...seemed like that piece was fixed in there. Firepits were as you describe, however---the grate would essentially fold over, 180 degrees.
If we can't move the grate out of the way, I thought we'd have to "toss" the coals from the chimney into the box. But maybe we could manage to find some sort of scoop to transfer, that sort of thing.
As it is we can use the coals to start the campfire so the ring works ok.
Thanks for the replies, everybody!
PS-I stumbled across this years ago. Who knew Henry Ford was behind Kingsford Charcoal?
https://www.kingsford.com/country/about-us/#CFOuFxDirErQS03I.97
If we camped for months at a time, packing up a grill and setting it out, only having to clean it once in a long while, would be worth it. But on such short trips---not so much.
NYCgrrl wrote:
OK got ya now...........prolly I hadn't enough caffeine when I posted earlier, LOL.
Most campground fire rings I've seen have air holes in them so my guess is lack of air flow isn't the problem.
I was thinking about Webers, etc. The coals have room underneath for air to enter and stoke them. If I could just get the coals an inch or two off the ground, I thought they'd burn better.
NYCgrrl wrote:
Do you pile the charcoal in a mound to cook with or spread it out to facilitate the start of the night's wood fire? Mounding first will give you a quick and concentrated grilling fire. You can spread the embers out after for a fire. I travel with my own fire pit/grill and generally still have live embers the next morning to start up breakfast. One of my fav local state parks only rents fire pits (gives new meaning to a money pit) so buying my own made sense but it had to be easy to store since I've neither a garage or attic. It's a multi tasking tool that I consider one of my best pieces of camping gear:
Snow Peak portable fire pit/grill
For the same reasons I bought a collapsible chimney:
http://www.amazon.com/AMOS-Barbecue-Collapsible-Foldable-Thermoplastic/dp/B00YEGBVYU
similar to the one in the link except my version has a handle that swing locks to the side thus even easier for storage. Think they don't make it anymore so I'm holding on to it for dear life:).
HTH and have fun out there!
The linked items look pretty sweet. Perhaps one day...
edm3rd wrote:
Don't understand the problem using the park grill with non-removable cooking grate - every one I have used is adjustable for height above the fuel (4-5 notches), and can be moved and set vertical for access to your fuel. Carry a short handled shovel to clean out the last camper's fuel, fire up your chimney until fully heated, and dump into the grill. Oil/pam the cooking grate, and return to horizontal, and start cooking!
I'll have to check and see if the grade can be moved to vertical...seemed like that piece was fixed in there. Firepits were as you describe, however---the grate would essentially fold over, 180 degrees.
If we can't move the grate out of the way, I thought we'd have to "toss" the coals from the chimney into the box. But maybe we could manage to find some sort of scoop to transfer, that sort of thing.
As it is we can use the coals to start the campfire so the ring works ok.
Thanks for the replies, everybody!
PS-I stumbled across this years ago. Who knew Henry Ford was behind Kingsford Charcoal?
https://www.kingsford.com/country/about-us/#CFOuFxDirErQS03I.97
