On Sun, 30 May 2010 23:17:48 -0500, Sky >
wrote:

> sf wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 30 May 2010 20:18:40 -0600, Christine Dabney
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > If you see this in time...
> > >
> > > Okay, I have done some grilling in my lifetime, but not as much as
> > > many of you have... Last few times I have used my grill, it has been
> > > someone else manning the grill.....
> > >
> > > This time I am doing it by myself...
> > >
> > > I have my coals getting ready..and many of them are white hot, except
> > > the top coals. Should I tip them out into the grill now? Or wait
> > > til the tops ones show some ash?
> > >
> > Yes.
>
> I believe sf meant 'yes' to the former - at least that's how I do my
> coals. When the 'chimney' gets dumped - the barely white-hot coals will
> be on the bottom of the piles By the time you get back with the food to
> grill, those bottom coals should be ashed over. At least it's how it
> works for me ;>
>
Silly me... tip them now. If you wait until everything is ashy,
you've wasted a lot of heat. I see on FB that her chicken is cooked.


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