Breaking in the Arteflame on the first day of 2017

[DWCowles]

Starting off the New Year breaking in the Arteflame by cooking breakfast on it...

[Shane Rakow]

Dang, that looks tasty!

[David Parrish]

Love it! That's a very nifty accessory.

[Jerod Broussard]

If anyone ever tells you that you don't know how to go all out, PLEASE SLAP THEM FOR ME!

[Jerod Broussard]

I shot breakfast. He wasn't very tasty.

[lschweig]

Did you howl after tasting it?

[Mr. Bones]

Jerod Broussard, I guess I misunderstood yer post from yesterday night. I thought ya' was goin' deer huntin' t'day.;-)
Nice shot, though. .243?

[Jerod Broussard]

75 yards. Neck shot. The other side of the neck is BLOWED OUT.

He finally stood still for 0.86 seconds. Hornady Superformance 95 grain SST .243, Love this cheap Howa. Mr. Bones

[Steve B]

That is soooo cool. How did it clean up afterwards?

[DWCowles]

clean up good

[bbqoaf]

Looks great!

[tbob4]

Thats great! Since you I believe you may be the first on the site to have the insert I have lots of fun questions. Question about the coals - looks like they were positioned in the middle for the bacon and sausage and nothing in the middle for the eggs. Did you go through a lot of coals with it or just reposition them? How long did it take to cook the whole meal? I think Max Good said he liked the stand alone unit but noted that there were some spots that were hotter than others. I figure that with the insert that phenomenon might be minimized. Did you find it to cook evenly?

[DWCowles]

tbob4 I dump a full chimney load of lit coals in the center to get it hot all around. You do have hotter spots than some spots but you can re-position the coals to get those spots hotter. The coals were burning down so I put what lit coals that I had left under one side for the eggs. Next time I will closed the bottom vent more since I had them open all the way. The whole cook took about 30-45 mins (didn't time it).

[tbob4]

Thanks. Keep the photos coming of it because like I wrote, you are going to be the resident expert on this. I'm getting really hungry now.

[bbqoaf]

I forgot to mention that I agree with your hash brown choice, shredded are always a great option!

[fuzzydaddy]

Very nice. Thanks for sharing your first use. Breakfast looks great!

[Huskee]

I WILL have one of these when the weather warms up!

So the coals only in the center still heats up the outer edges just fine? I was thinking from afar that spreading a chimney full into a wider circle then setting the Arteflame on after might even things out and make it heat up quicker? I cant' wait to play.

[DWCowles]

No, it was hotter around the inside. You have plenty of room to dump the coals in the center and take something and spread them.

[EdF]

That's supposedly part of the design: multiple temps, hotter near the center, so you can cook different kinds of things at the same time?

[JeffJ]

I had no idea that this thing even existed until DWCowles created this thread (and the thread where he announced he got this). I put this on my birthday wish list (April). I'm going to make it very clear that this is something I want. That's one of the things that makes the Pit so great - we get to discover things, through the experiences of others, that we'd likely never be aware of.