Do you leave your lids up?

[Attjack]

Not always but often I like to leave the lids up on my cookers to get airflow in there. On a related note do your cookers smell delicious? Cause mine do.

[texastweeter]

Nope,closed lids here.

[Mr. Bones]

Decades ago, when I was married, I'd git in some powerful Big Trouble fer "leavin th lid up"...
Since then, reckon I jus do it outta spite, lol!

I also do, on my cookers, situationally dependent...
Yup, they smell delicious!

[lonnie mac]

Not down here ya don't.

[Troutman]

Yea toe jamb sucks

[Huskee]

I do on my stickburner periodically, if it's sunny and dry for a stretch. This is to prevent mold from it being too stuffy and warm inside. Right now its lid is up, but not my kettles or PBC or other charcoal grill.

[CRO]

Closed
Rain, tree and bird droppings

[Attjack]

Why is only bones answering my second question?

[EdF]

Yep, they smell delicious, except for before the first post-winter burnout!

[Mr. Bones]

EdF
Mine cook all winter long, so no problem, amigo!
(Course, I don't live in th NE, either...)

[gcdmd]

Mr. Bones I still have to admire your fortitude. I spent a couple of winters at Ft. Leavenworth (outside "the wall") as a teenager when my dad was stationed there. It got muy frio.

[Troutman]

[Mr. Bones]

Depends on what kinda bizness I need to conduct, an in how much of a rush I might be in...ymmv.

[Steve R.]

3. That seat goes down even easier than it goes up! 😀

[W.A.]

#3 will get you slapped in my house

[jerrybell]

Lid down always. Don't really make a point of smelling them. I'd probably notice if they smelled particularly bad, and they don't.

[Attjack]

I'm talking smelling good. People comment that my grills smell good when they check them out.

[Mr. Bones]

Attjack Agreed, Brother!
I've sealed many a caterin deal, word of mouth, when somebody stops by to assess my operation, an I lift th lid of my smokers, fer them to appreciate...

[Steve R.]

I have this weird habit of sticking my head inside my stickburner when I am in the vicinity. Not when it's up to temp, of course.

[Mr. Bones]

I do this too, brother!
Smells like Hickory Heaven!:
On sunny days, I can smell that goodness from like 20 ft away, with lids closed on my stickburners.

[EdF]

Saves money on haircuts, though!

[Steve R.]

I should get a 50% discount on haircuts anyway.

[jfmorris]

I leave my lids open only after giving the grills a good cleaning, to let them dry out. Then lids down, covers on.

Even my stick burner has a cover this year, after finding a nice moldy surprise about a month after Thanksgiving. I had left it with turkey grease and a water pan in it, and never had a cover for it, and we had rushed off to my inlaws with the Thanksgiving turkeys, and cleaning the smoker was the last thing on my mind when I got home at 10PM that night. So now, the stick burner gets a good hosing out with soap, then burn a full chimney of charcoal in the firebox to dry it out, then cover it up.

[Attjack]

I feel like covers trap moisture in. But our climates are different.

[kamadoRob]

Here in Colorado it so dry there really isn't a concern for mold though, even when I lived on the east coast I left lids closed. My grills always do smell good. I just opened my Webber Q the other day to clean it up for spring but a couple of days before that I was showing a friend how the Amazin' Tube smoke tube works, lit if off and put it in that grill. It smelled even better after burning some apple pellets.

[jfmorris]

I'm gonna have to get a tube or pouch one of these days, just for kicks, so I can burn some pellets!

[kamadoRob]

It’s kinda fun. I did learn that it doesn’t work well in the kamado. Not enough air flow. They work great in a gasser though.

[Attjack]

Only used mine for cheese in a Weber. Good to know not to try in the kamado.

[LA Pork Butt]

I leave them down and my wife says all lids should be down.

[MBMorgan]

As kamadoRob said, it's really dry here in Colorado. Thanks to this thread, I just checked my too-long-ignored (more than a year ) PBC and it's still clean, dry, and smelling just like the last batch of Last Meal Ribs I cooked ... (whew!) ...

[Hulagn1971]

All down. They stay in the garage when not in use. The garage smells good.