THANKS to all for the kind words and complements!
How did the shrooms turn out? Don't know why but I've never done them without cheese or traditional stuffing. And I love me some shrooms! LOL!
They were decent. They definitely needed more, as they were a bit plain. Cheese would certainly helped (as would have several other ingredients). I had more left, but by the time I was ready for a second batch, the family was getting full and didn't want any more.
Not sure why it would. When you think about it, that's exactly what's happening with the Minion method: lit coals (from the chimney) heat the unlit coals until they catch and ash over. Same thing with adding more briquettes to your cook, but instead of the hot coals being from the chimney, they're from your already lit ring. The only reason I would start a chimney on the side and add it to the coals in the cooker is that you can get the chimney up to temp faster since it's exposed to more oxygen then the sealed-off cooker. But adding unlit coals to the ring is really no different than the Minion method.
Well, my biggest fear of dumping cold, dry briquettes on an existing fire would be the resulting thick white smoke and black dust getting on the food. As it was, I was afraid on dumping the lit ones on, as the ash would get all over the food. So what I did, was remove all the food from the smoker, open the door and poor the chimney down the face of the door. I couldn't poor directly from the top as the water pan was in the way. So yea, either way would have worked (hot or cold briquettes) if you're removing the food anyway. But thank you for the advise, that was VERY timely and VERY helpful!
Hey wait a minute........you still owe us 10 more hrs..........:shock:
Well, I started the food prep at 5:00 PM Friday night, and the thread about 6:00PM. My 24 hour comment and title was based on starting "the event" from that point. Not that I was going to cook for 24 hours. Looking back, I don't think I could do this for 24 hours. The only time I sat down was to post pics. The rest of the time was prepping, cleaning, delivering snacks, prepping more, cleaning more, delivering....etc..etc..etc...
My ankles, knees and lower back are showing their disapproval this morning. :laugh:
