How to use The Snake Method to smoke in a Kettle BBQ
Smoking in a Kettle BBQ isn’t as hard as you may have thought. Thanks to Aussie Griller for this step by step how to will mean that you will have around 16 hours of cook time and a low fuel usage
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In this guide we will be using heat beads. Your first step is to place the heat beads around the outside of the cooking grate.
Four coals thick will give you a 110 – 130 Degree Celsius temperature and add some smoking wood to give that extra flavour.
The approximate burn time will be around 10 hours but play around yourself with different quantities.
Place a drip pan into the Kettle BBQ to catch the drippings and also some boiling water to keep things moist whilst cooking.
Next add around 1 Dozen Hot Coals (grey in colour) to the start of the snake. Make sure that some overlap the un burnt coals to get a good start.
Place the lid on for around 20 minutes until your temperature stabilizes.
Add a piece of foil folded over to protect the bottom of the meat from scorching.
Adjust your top vent for temperature control but leave the bottom vent fully open.
Rotate the vent and thermometer (if you have one) to the opposite side of the snake to get a good heat reading.
Check regularly to make sure that the temperature is in your desired range and adjust using the vents at the top of the kettle.
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