Thanks. She is recovering nicely. Will let you know how I do with the modified BBQ.

Foiled, Fooled again, Ohio Weather does it again. Snow today and tomorrow then rain rest of week. Grill will stay wrapped up for a while yet.

Looks like I need to modify my BBQ to low salt and possibly no brining. Wife has had a stroke and to protect her I have to not be as free with the salt, fat and sugar. She is on Warfarin aka Coumadin and we need to watch changes in eating vegatables that have high levels of Vitamin K.

Goodby spinach, Mustard greens, green onions, etc. we even need to limit canola oil. Thank goodness there are other oils that we can use.

Hi woodburner Did you post your feelings to Weber? It is looking like it will warm up here in Ohio. So I will be able to get my performer out of Winter storage and get busy with my Low and Slow in a short time. Hope to see you here often this year.

Plan to start small with a chicken now that I have mastered the fuse in dry testing.

OOPS I wanted to say mine does not make sense unless yours is there.

I can add mine to yours I hope mine does not make sense if yours is not there

Woodburner:

Should we take Bagofwater's post this part of our discussion idea and post our discussion to the Weber Facebook page?

Bill

Thank you for all of this great information. I have a performer with the propane lighter. I felt that it was a whistle that need not be on a Charcoal grill, being that we have a more efficient chimney lighter.

I feel like you the table is not as great as it looked when I bought it. The new lid holder negates the use of a rotisserie if you have no other place to put the lid when setting the fire or working with the cooking product.

Many of your other comments on the shortcut design of the 27 I won't experience because I hope to keep my present one for a long time.

I am just at the beginning of the low and slow smoke cooking and am taking it slowly to get the feel for fire control. I don't have much problem working the direct grilling or indirect where the cook time is short.

I am glad to find this source of info and hope it stays a long time.

Thank you again
Bill H

I am confused about a 27 inch Weber kettle. The only big kettle I have seen is the 37 1/2 inch Weber ranch grill. Where did you find the other one?

I may have not made my idea clear.
I ran a dry run test and had a regular 3/4 circle fuse run to the last 6 coals.
when It got there I rebuilt part of a fuse back toward the original beginning using some small pieces of lump to make a lighting bridge to the new fuse.

This caught and added an additional 2 hours to the burn.

The time it took me to construct the short (reverse fuse if you will) allowed me to guess that a total fuse could be constructed in the time it took the new coals to stop releasing the starting smoke.

Looking ahead this could make it easier to get my 22.5 inch performer to cook as long as needed with a lot less refueling time.

Has anyone rebuilt the fuse back to the original start to gain more cook time. I t should only take the time that it takes the new coals to light at the new beginning and stop smoking?