When do I use charcoal baskets?
1. For indirect heat. When Im cooking with rotisseries, or cooking with indirect heat, the baskets are very useful. They keep the coals in neat piles on the sides of the grill, leaving plenty of room for a drip pan in the middle of the grill.
2. When I need a small zone of direct high heat. The baskets hold a deep pile of coals close to the grill grate, giving me a smaller, hotter zone for a quick blast of direct heat. If Im only cooking a couple of chops, I use the baskets. Baskets are great for a direct-indirect fire with a small high heat zone - like cooking with the reverse sear or sear and move methods. Most of the time the steaks are cooking over indirect heat, away from the coals. But, when I want to sear them quickly, I have a lot of searing power directly over the basket.
When do I put the charcoal baskets away, and put the coals directly on the charcoal grate?
1. When I need a large zone of direct heat. The baskets give me direct heat on a quarter of the grill surface. When I need to use direct heat on more of the grill grate - say, cooking pork chops for a crowd - I skip the baskets. If I need high heat, I add more coals, stacking them up on the charcoal grate two to three coals deep. I can turn the whole surface of the grill into a raging inferno if Im willing to use enough coals. Or, I can spread the coals out, and
2. When I need direct medium heat, or lower. The baskets concentrate the coals too much for lower heat. When I need to grill something gently - vegetables, pizza, fish, burgers - I put the coals directly on the grate, where I can spread them out and dissipate some of the heat.
STANHERD Stainless Steel Charcoal Briquette Basket for Kettle Grill, Char-Basket Coal Fuel Holder, Kettle Charcoal Grill Accessory for Weber 22" Kettle Charcoal Grills
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