PBC Mod: Ash Catcher

[Jon Solberg]

Oil dri- its kinda fancy kitty litter sorta. I tend to use kitty litter in place of it. (new unused of course) I have not used it in a cooker.

http://www.oildri.net/FAQ.html

[fzxdoc]

So it's safe to leave directly under the coal basket during a cook, MBMorgan ?

K.

P.S. Jon , it's good to hear you use the unused variety of kitty litter to soak up oil. The alternative sounds positively yucky!

[MBMorgan]

I'm pretty confident that it would be safe to use under the coal basket/ash catcher combo. I wouldn't claim to be unequivocally "sure" until I've had a chance to test it ... which in my case won't be until sometime next week at the soonest.

Mike

[MBMorgan]

Haven't tested Oil-Dri in the PBC yet ... but I've figured out how I plan to use it. Rather than spreading the granules all over the bottom of the barrel, I'm just going to use some sort of scoop to spread them all around the perimeter of the coal basket ... once it's been placed in the PBC, of course. After the cook, they should be pretty easy to dump or vacuum out with the captured grease. More on this when I've got some actual data and pics ...

[Jerod Broussard]

No, I haven't got around to it. I've been sweeping mine out since I have it on blocks and modified a bucket to sweep all the ashes into.

[MBMorgan]

Geez, Jerod ... you mod buckets, too??? 😀