>$20 welders blanket effectively turns a $120 weber to a $600 green egg
nothing personnel eggcels

>>21483204 (OP)
Nice klan grill, brother

>>21483204 (OP)
Do a demonstration.

ok but at least do something about those ragged edges so you dont feed fiberglass to your family

literally just use a flowerpot dog

I've done this too. It actually does work to raise the temperature pretty significantly. I have a bigger blanket though and folded it over for more layers than that, it doesn't look like there's much air being trapped under that one.

>>21483204 (OP)
You could use screws kaowool and furnace cement to make a proper one.

>>21483204 (OP)
I've debated bricking mine in. Or at least bricking off two walls to mitigate a bit of draft.

>>21483204 (OP)
>welders blanket
Sounds comfy, can I use it like a normal blanket?

>>21483204 (OP)
umm yeah, delicious silica fibers in my food and lungs, just what i like

>>21483204 (OP)
Why would I need to do that?
I have a couple of Weber grills for grilling, a pit barrel smoker, and a 3 ton Shirley for big smokes.
Bge owners are utterly retarded.

>>21484744
They're convenient, easy to use, efficient, and work well as a grill and smoker.
You can get a bge/kamado joe to temp and then basically forget about it until your food hits temp. If you set it up right you can do a 16+ hour cook with basically no intervention.

Stick burners are cool and all, but I like to do other things while my food is cooking.

>>21484764
So a pit barrel smoker or equivalent would work better than a bge for solely smoking and be cheaper as well.

>>21484770
Cheaper yeah, but not necessarily better.

>>21484770
how well does it hold a temperature?
the green egg and the weber blanket modification are to insulate it so it holds a more consistent temperature and so it doesn't burn through fuel

>>21484779
Seems like they win more competitions than bge's though and speaking from experience they output better product than a bge.
>>21484782
One fuel load will get you an 18h brisket cook, I've had mine run for over 12h in windy weather in winter.

>>21484794
>winning competitions
Not really a great metric to go by even if bges have won many competitions.

There are pros and cons to all styles of grills/smokers. I think the retards are the ones that cant figure out how to make good food on a bge. It's pretty easy... Just a little different than traditional smokers.

I've made excellent food on my kamado joe, and I much prefer its ease of use compared to the reverse offset I used to have. The whole chicken that comes of a bge is extremely good.

>>21484810
Honestly if your big concern with a smoker is ease of use then get a pellet smoker, if you want excellent food don't look at anything whose primary engineering feat is ease of use or temp control.
A good stick burner will always make the best food.

>>21484816
How have Bge beaten stick burners in competition?

>>21484816
Also stick burners are a major pain in the ass that are not worth 5% better smoke flavor for many people. Even sourcing good wood for them can be difficult depending on where you live.

>>21484841
Yes, but they have also lost far more than they have won.
>>21484845
Maybe you should try to use one that is sealed well, I toss some wood every four hours and it works fine/is very easy to use.
I will cede the point about fuel being harder to get depending on area though, that is reasonable.

>>21484857
The point is that they have won, so bad bge food is really just a skill issue.

As I was saying in the beginning you still get great food from it, but it's also easy to use. Bge type cookers are not bad smokers/grills by any means. You trade a small amount of smoke flavor for significantly easier usage in most cases. Some things may be a bit trickier to get right in a bge, but it is not impossible to do.

The great seal and lower airflow, and the 360 degree heat from the ceramic does wonders on keeping meat juicy, and if you load your wood/charcoal correctly you can get great clean smoke flavor from them.
If youre doing indirect heat in a bge it's more like a smoke pit than a traditional smoker really. Like when you bury a whole ass pig in the ground with coals to cook it.

>>21484907
I'll keep my grill and smoker, have a good time with your meme grill engineered primary for fuel savings and ease of use with food quality as a secondary concern to the first two things.

Could anyone help me decide between a few Traegers?
A Timberline Beta version of an 850 in great looking condition, an Ironwood 885 with rust on the inside otherwise good, and an Ironwood 650 in great condition.
Yes, I‘m retarded. Any help would be appreciated. I just want easy smoked meats all the time and am too busy to tend to a smoker generally.

>>21484987
Just buy a pit barrel cooker you lazy retard, it's right up your alley when it comes to effort and actually makes good food unlike your pellet smokers that use sawdust sweepings from the sawmill floor.

>>21484911
Concession accepted and skill issue recognized. Enjoy your heap of rusty meme scrap metal.

Thanks! :D

>>21484987
Grab a kamado joe or big green egg. 10-20 minute setup and then it just keeps its heat for dozens of hours.

>>21485005
>thing :(
>thing japan :)
>skill issue
Oh you're that autist that says that anytime anyone says you jap grill is bad.

How hot are you needing your grill to get? I can get 550-575 probably 600 pretty reliably with my Weber kettle as is without any mods (other than a shit load of charcoal)

>>21485087
its more to not lose heat than get it really hot. i.e. keep a consistent temperature without burning a lot of fuel.

>>21485066
>kamado joe, Japanese
LOL. You are dumb, hilariously wrong, and clearly obsessed with Japan because you are seeing Japan where there is no Japan. Lmao

I do have a yakitori grill that uses binchotan charcoal to make skewers that is incredible, but I am not talking about that, and I have never mentioned it on 4chan before. Lol.

>>21485157
>i do not know the origin of the things I talk about
Bemutted

>>21485157
Kamado is a Japanese word, it refers to a specific type of hearth/grill that was designed to maximize fuel efficiency due to lack of easily accessed fuel woods.
Servicemen at the end of WWII from the Pacific theater imported them to the United states.
The creator of the bge, what your kamado joe is a rip off of, was a Navy member and after he was out of the navy opened a pachinko hall in Philadelphia where he also sold imported kamados.
Later he made his own design based on it and started selling that and stopped his gambling hall.
You are a retarded clown.

>>21485293
>>21485255
Hey, big retard that doesn't know anything the kamado joe was designed in the usa.

KEK @ BEING SO WRONG.

>>21485293
none of that makes it a japnese thing doofus
nobody without estoric knowledge of the kamado joe would even know of its japanese roots.

>>21485297
Where in the English language do I find the Japanese section?

>>21483204 (OP)
what do the blankets do?

>>21485374
insulates it. its like how a beer koozie keeps a beer cool, but its to keep the grill hot

>>21485293
WEEB

>>21485401
does the grill not already inside the heat?

>>21483204 (OP)
personal

>>21485663
yeah much like how a soda can insides the cold. but much of it escapes without insulation

>>21483239
based and agreed