When cooking comps on our FEC-100, we'll burn at 180 from 7:30p until 6a, then 250 from 6a until 1p or so. I figure we could go 24 hours until that pot is full of ash. Not a problem for a single comp, but a full weekend of cooking could be tricky.
A friend cooked for a big party Friday night and wasn't able to get get his pot cleaned out before starting his comp cook.
I don't know what this post is meant to accomplish other than just thinking aloud that without an ash clean out, you kinda have to plan ahead on a super long or back to back cooks to have an opportunity to clean that pot. Otherwise, your pot will over-floweth!
And on a related thought, does anyone think the cooker performs differently at the beginning of a cook on a clean pot versus late in the cook when ash builds up? Harder to maintain high temps? More smoldering and less BTU's?
Probably over thinking again.
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