Birthday Kettle

[g8adventure]

It was confirmed that my daughter and future son-n-law are giving me a Weber Kettle for my birthday on April 26th. They are going to give me to early so I can assemble it the day before.

Now I've used one just for grilling in the past, but for my bday I'd like to bbq some ribs. Since I won't have a smokenator or other conversion kit yet I thought I have the idea of trying something I saw on another forum.

Place a couple fire bricks and create a partition with them on one side of the great for the coals and place a water pan on the opposite side. How do you all think this would work until I can buy a Smokenator or something similar?

I want to build a UDS in the near future, but I want to be able to cook a great bbq rib dinner to show my kids how much I appreciate their gift first.

Secondly since I'm knew can you all help me out quick n' easy rib recipe to use since I've never done them on a kettle and possible some pointers so I don't screw up the meat?

One more thing I'm going to go out and by a digital thermometer today.

[1buckie]

g8adventure ~~~~>

I'm doing these today....been on for 1-1/2 hrs only


Here's the basic setup:





I just reverse the pile on the opposite side....hard to see because of the house shadow....
One setup, for pork, is lump charcoal
the other, for beef ribs is Stubb's briquettes...
I use a fairly small amount of lit charcoal (6-8 pieces / briquettes) to start the fuzes.....
You can use the firebrick deal, that works just fine too !
The pork is running @ 260° & beef @ 245° with the sets you see....

For a new kettle do a burnout anyway, just to get rid of any manufacturing oils, etc. that may be there & maybe think of using a crumpled strip of aluminum foil all around the edge of the bell to get the lid to seal better (looks funny, really helps when they're new)

Three things:
Don't try this at home w/ Kingsford as you get too much extracurricular
gassing of the binders as each briquette lites...
Start out low with bottom vents 1/2 & build up the temp if you need to...
(Top always open)
Rotate the whole grate as the fuel burns, so the meat stays from above
the actual fire

Just a personal opinion, ditch the water pan in favor of a pan full of your favorite bean combination~~~>


Better photos of some previous ones...



The pork drippin's make for beans that are out of this world good

PS: Happy Birthday!!!
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[g8adventure]

1buckie: Thank you very much for the reply I'm very excited about my new grill. Matter of fact I got even earlier then originally planned, because I'm going to be grilling some beef kabobs for my daughter's fiance's Bday that I almost forgot is tomorrow. Pretty bad memory considering our birthdays are only 3 days apart.