What is the minion method?
What is the minion method?
The Minion Method allows you to cook for hours without having to add new charcoal halfway through your cook. It works by creating a circle around your charcoal grate with around 2kg of Weber Briquettes and then adding between 1 or 2kg of lit briquettes into the middle of the unlit briquettes.
How do you keep a smoker’s temperature constant?
Maintaining the Temperature in your offset meat smoker
- Open up the dampers to allow more airflow if the fire is going out.
- Add more fuel i.e. charcoal or wood.
- Use a Charcoal Starter Wand on the fan setting to blow in clean hot air to build the fire back up.
- Close off the dampers if the heat is running too high.
What is the snake method?
The snake method works by running a long ring of unlit charcoal briquettes around the outside of your weber. By then placing a few lit briquettes at one end of your “snake” you are able to keep a consistent low temperature for a long period of time as the lit beads gradually light the unlit beads.
How many briquettes light for Minion method?
For shorter cooking sessions, follow the Minion Method steps described at the top of this page, but only partially fill the charcoal chamber with unlit charcoal, then add 20 lit coals on top. This works well for 6-8 hour cooks.
How much smoke comes out of a smoker?
Two to three chunks should be plenty to start with. If you have added too much wood, the smoke will be thick and white, and will not thin out. This means you are smothering the coals. Some white smoke initially is nothing to panic about.
Why is it called Minion method?
The grill master who first wrote about this fire building technique is Jim Minion, hence the “Minion Method.” Little yellow cartoon “minions” had nothing to do with it, although it would have made a good story. Instead, Jim was answering a question on a barbecue forum about how to control temperatures on a WSM.
