Sigh. This was dumb of me.
So, I've been experimenting with lump charcoal in the Weber Kettle (Royal Oak only thus far). (The capability to leave it in there and relight it for some quick fish the next day is actually what has delayed my purchase of a pellet grill.)
The problem is that those small chunks will fall through the charcoal grate and eventually start clogging up the vent holes. Well, late, in the dark, I decided to run the One-Touch cleaning things back and forth. What happened is that some of the small chunks got under the blades and I did not realize that. Over a week's time, my blades are bent upwards now and won't go flush against the bottom of the kettle.
This is not catastrophic as I primarily now use the kettle for direct grilling or smoke-roasting with the vent holes either completely uncovered of half-covered. Still it irks me I did that.
Weber sells replacement parts, of course, but when I was looking closely at the one-touch system, it has already started to rust significantly after two years of use. I'm thinking this is one of those situations in which I will make things worse by trying to fix it. If I used my Kettle for smoking, absolutely, without question I would try to fix it, but with my current use case, it's not really "broken," as it were. (And the replacement parts cost 15% the cost of a new kettle anyway lol.)
Still.....I feel really stupid for doing that.
So, I've been experimenting with lump charcoal in the Weber Kettle (Royal Oak only thus far). (The capability to leave it in there and relight it for some quick fish the next day is actually what has delayed my purchase of a pellet grill.)
The problem is that those small chunks will fall through the charcoal grate and eventually start clogging up the vent holes. Well, late, in the dark, I decided to run the One-Touch cleaning things back and forth. What happened is that some of the small chunks got under the blades and I did not realize that. Over a week's time, my blades are bent upwards now and won't go flush against the bottom of the kettle.
This is not catastrophic as I primarily now use the kettle for direct grilling or smoke-roasting with the vent holes either completely uncovered of half-covered. Still it irks me I did that.
Weber sells replacement parts, of course, but when I was looking closely at the one-touch system, it has already started to rust significantly after two years of use. I'm thinking this is one of those situations in which I will make things worse by trying to fix it. If I used my Kettle for smoking, absolutely, without question I would try to fix it, but with my current use case, it's not really "broken," as it were. (And the replacement parts cost 15% the cost of a new kettle anyway lol.)
Still.....I feel really stupid for doing that.
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