charcoal snake method<\/a>. To use the snake method, arrange charcoal around the bottom ring of your cooking chamber in a circle. Unlit chunks of wood are scattered on top of the unlit charcoal snake.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThen, a couple of lit coals are placed on one side of the charcoal snake. This method helps regulate temperature since only a handful of coals are burning at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I prefer to pile hot coals on the side, but the snake method is another great way to smoke meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Final Thoughts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Go ahead, use your kettle charcoal grill as a smoker! Just set all the coals on one side, and put the food you’re smoking on the side with no coals on it. Toss some wood chunks on the hot coals, and you’ve got a two-zone fire going. You’re smoking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Any charcoal kettle grill can be converted into a makeshift smoker. Simply pile the hot coals to one side and throw a handful of wood chips or wood chunks on them. Next, place the food on the grill grates on the side with no coals. That’s indirect cooking, and it’s how you smoke meat (and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":19184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19181"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19598,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19181\/revisions\/19598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19181"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=19181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}