I don't have a big one for this, but my red Weber 'Lucille' was new... I used the water pan twice without realizing after I emptied it and rinsed it out that there were pinholes in the bottom of the aluminum pan.
It drained into the ash pan and dried out in 100F sun the next day and turned the session's ash into cement. I guess what I really need is a new ash pan. BUT I TREAT LUCILLE SO WELL!
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Blackstone 36" Outdoor Griddle 4-Burner
Burch Barrel V-1 Karubeque C-60 Kamado Joe Jr. (Black) Lodge L410 Hibachi Pit Barrel Cooker Pit Barrel Cooker 2.0
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Bayou Classic 35K BTU Burner Eggspander Kit X2 Finex Cat Iron Line FireBoard Drive Lots and Lots of Griswold Cast Iron Grill Grates Joule Water Circulator
KBQ Fire Grate Kick Ash Basket (KAB) X4 Lots of Lodge Cast Iron Husky 6 Drawer BBQ Equipment Cabinet Large Vortex Marlin 1894 .44 Magnum Marquette Castings No. 13 (First Run) Smithey No. 12 Smokeware Chimney Cap X 3 Stargazer No.10, 12 ******************************** Fuel FOGO Priemium Lump Charcoal Kingsford Blue and White B&B Charcoal Apple, Cherry & Oak Log splits for the C-60 ************************************************* Cutlery Buck 119 Special
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Scotch: Current favorite- The Arran (anything by them), Glenmorangie 12yr Lasanta, sherry cask finished. The Balvenie Double Wood, also like Oban 18yr, and The Glenlivet Nadurra (Oloroso sherry cask finished) among others. Neat please.
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Location: Farwell, Michigan - near Clare (dead center of lower peninsula).
Occupation:
Healthcare- Licensed & Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) at MyMichigan Health, a University of Michigan Health System.
Here's just two of my 'more than I care to admit' stories:
Similar to RonB, except that a little crumble of a red-hot briquette fell out of the chimney on the deck after I dumped the coals, and I stepped on it in socks. Thought I stepped on a wasp, shouted obscenities, danced, it ruined my sock, and I had a sore spot on my foot for a week or so. There's still a nickel-sized black scallop in our new-at-the-time deck. I've since added a few more black marks to the boards, not my feet. I've gotten smarter, although it's a slow process.
Also I never took a pic of the wound, but I sliced my hand open pretty good on my Yoder Wichita lid. I had the lid up while first starting its fire, but noticed the chimney cap was closed still, so I went to push the chimney cap open. It was stuck a little, so I had to kinda tap on it with my fist. Then it gave way and my hand slid over faster than anticipated and nicked the [sharp] corner of the lid. Blood was dripping down my hand & arm. Scared me a little. It was a good gash. Needless to say, now it's common practice for me to open it every time before opening the lid.
That's a good example on what I do on a weekly basis. I've actually started acknowledging the fact that I'm clumsy. Hurts my ego a bit, but nobody uses bandaid/other stuff more than me in the family :-)
Deep in the MCS zone.
Currently have
Gas: Weber Genesis 330
Charcoal: Weber 22 Premium
Smoker: PBC
Toys: DigiQ, Thermapen thermometer, Lodge Griddle/Grill
Looking to acquire: SNS, and one of everything else
I always use the side burner on my Weber to light my charcoal chute. Wasn't paying attention to our rearranging of junk on the patio and suddenly noticed one day we had several small wholes burned through the plastic lid of a tub placed under it. Small coals had fell through the charcoal chute and the openings on the side burner to land on the tubs. Thankfully there was nothing flammable inside the tubs.
No notable issues personally, but I have seen some spectacular BBQ failures in my 25 years as a fireman. Most were not very funny, but one particular incident was. I was a newly-promoted fire captain when we were dispatched one morning to a smoking garbage truck. It was pretty easy to figure out that poorly discarded BBQ coals was the culprit.
The truck was about 1/3 full and there was no way to completely extinguish the fire without dumping it. I wasn't about to have the driver empty the load in the business parking lot, so we called the local landiflll to clear us a spot, soaked the mess as best we could, then did a slow code 3 (lights and sirens) with our ambulance leading the way followed by the now-greatly smoking garbage truck and fire engine through town. That thing was chugging smoke like an old time locomotive, and the looks we got from people as we went through town were hilarious!
We made it to the landfill without further incident and easily handled the problem from there. Still one of the funniest, and funnest, emergency call I ever went on.
The Captain's story reminded me of a real bone headed move I pulled one time. We were going on vacation and the night before I grilled some steaks on my Weber kettle, shut the vents so the coals would burn out and thought nothing of it. The next morning just before we were ready to leave, I emptied the ash into the ash bin then emptied the ash bin into my plastic garbage can I keep by the pits. So as not to leave the plastic garage can out I decided to stick it in my garage. Well you can pretty much read into the rest, the ashes were not fully extinguished and caught fire some paper that was in the can.
Literally as we were pulling out and about to shut the garage door we see this plastic garage can engulfed in flames. In a panic I got out my garden hose and got it put out ok. If that had happened 5 minutes after we had left it would have taken my garage and perhaps more with it. And oh by the way all my electrical runs to panels within my garage. Can you say potential disaster averted? Someone was watching over me that day. To this day proper ash management is paramount in my house !!
Whew, close call!!! After all is said and done I'd rather have the cheap lesson learned than the expensive one. No offense, but I made a pretty good living off of similar experiences.
We heat my house with wood burning stove i have a two gallon steel bucket clean my stove in after it cool I dump it into 5 gallon that set out in the snow and gets dump in the trash a week later
The usual backdraft of opening a Kamado lid too fast! Luckily it hasn’t really hurt me other than a few singed arm hairs. But, I’ve gotten so used to it, I burb every grill lid I see including the floor display gas grills at Lowe’s or Home Depot.
When living in north east NJ during the late 70s remember hearing this on the radio. Yonkers (?) family was going "up state" for a day in the woods. The Dad, always thinking ahead figured he’d save time by starting his hibachi charcoal at home and put the just lit hibachi in the truck of his car so it would be ready when they got to the park. 🚗?
Oooooo ouch! I've done that before, it is no fun. Also have accidentally done it after moving my wife's bottles of essential oils. 100% pure peppermint oil does a number on your eyes.
Leftover charcoal ash for me. One night about a year ago I finished a turkey on the wsm in a slight drizzle. Shut her down and left her sitting in the rain for awhile. Several hours later, around 8 or so, went out, felt the base of the cooker, looked at the ash and said to myself these are out, and dumped them in the plastic can in front of the garage. Couple of hours later, we were in bed when there was a muffled thump. I figured it was a car backfire or something, but the better (and smarter) half went to look. The can was in full flames a couple of feet in front of the garage door. I emptied a small extinguisher and used lots of water to get it out - took a few hours to get it to stop smoldering. Went out the next day to buy a new garbage can and invested in a small aluminum can with a lid. Now all ashes go in it - even if they sit in the cooker for a couple of days.
Long time ago I had a combo gasser / briquette grill. Propane tank and full bag of briquettes right next to each other on the bottom.
Somehow the coals caught fire, slumped over, spilled out and completely enveloped the propane tank. When I saw it, they were all flaming red white ash as hot as they can get - a full bag. I didn't think I had time to call the FD, not before the tank blew and blew in an outside wall of my house.
I put the garden hose nozzle on fog, and the steam for a while was incredible. It didn't feel safe, but had to be done. Wow.
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