Saw this last week but came back to it today after church to refresh my memory before throwing the ham on. Reading the comments, I want to apologize that I, along with everyone else, neglected to congratulate you on the title for this video. I imagine your wife hating it, and your girls not catching the reference. As it should be. Perfect dad joke material
The ham looks great, just in time for Easter. I was planning on smoking a cured deli ham, I will have to do it your way and get a smoked ham instead, and double smoke it.
I'm curious what the comparison is between double indirect with the SloRoller with no water pan vs two heat deflectors with water pan. I don't use the SloRoller very much and it is very ugly under my Big Joe. I could imagine getting rid of it and getting an extra set of heat deflectors and a second Smokeware pan -- if it gets better results.
Question on the double indirect method on a classic 2 - I find temp is easy to achieve and hold around 250 but higher temps (like for a chicken cook) it seems to have trouble. You can't build a larger fire (as the lower deflector hinders that) - do you really need to overshoot prior to adding all of the ceramics in? I did hand test and pizza for the lower deflectors but it seemed really slow. I have to say though - my smoke hesitant spouse seems to be liking the double indirect clean smoke! #bbqwin
Could you place a water pan on top of the SloRoller then have your deflectors above that to achieve a similar result? I don’t have a pizza stone available to accomplish double indirect as shown but want to give it a try.
For sure. Jump to the setup in this video to see how I did double indirect with the pan and sloroller - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J-E1SGGb6fU.html
Hey James quick question I've had my joe for almost 2 years now and it cooks great. I do have an issue where it takes 30-45 mins to get up to temp though no matter what temp I want. What can help this? I use the vents appropriately
That could be an issue with airflow into your kamado due to built up ash or something similar. He’s got a video (the link) on how you could solve your issue ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gphUQFW6uIo.html
Could it be possible when loading up your fuel you’re covering all of the bottom airflow holes? Usually for start up I’ll try to keep open “pockets” between the charcoal and that better airflow will help with the initial start up
its harder to keep clean for sticky things like this... and they have lowered the max temp from 450 to 300f which is right on the threshold of where i like it best