I saw a video recently where the cook was using a Napolean Gasser, that has a charcoal option. Basically it looked like a basket of lump charcoal sitting on the burners. You run the gas burners until the charcoal is well lit up, then cook directly of the charcoal.
Any reason I couldn't do that on a Weber Genesis? Seems like the worst thing would be cleanup...
I have a Weber Summit with a built in smoker box with its own burner. It's designed to use wood chips or pellets, not charcoal. My luck with it over the years has not been very good. It doesn't make that big a mess but the combustion gasses that roll through my cooker have a tendency to snuff out the smoke or push the smoke outside the cooking chamber too quickly to have any real effect. Propane cookers are by design left rather open so air can move through and not let those gasses get trapped. Burning charcoal, not sure how that would fair, really wouldn't do much for the cook like wood smoke I wouldn't think.
It's forcing something that isn't designed as a smoker to be a smoker, know what I mean? Maybe others have had better luck than I.
I have a Napoleon gas grill and I plan to purchase one of these, I think it is a cast iron box that fits over the gas burner, I think it would be good for warp 10 searing?
Add the taste of charcoal to any gas grill! The Charcoal Tray for Napoleon Gas Grills are easy to use and gives the option of using charcoal to cook any meal. Insert the charcoal tray, add charcoal, and start grilling. The gas burner lights the charcoal, conveniently giving you the taste of charcoal grilled food.
You’ve just made me appreciate the Napolean even more. Although, I had a hard time thinking charcoal on the thing with all my charcoal grills that I have. Cool anyways! 👍👍👍
If you have room in your yard or on your deck, I think you would do better with some type of dedicated charcoal grill rather than trying to make your Napoleon into a hybrid.
I like it because it has a solid bottom and the ashes stay in the tray. They don't make one to fit my grill, but I have thought about modifying this one.
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