Rotating Racks

I have 3 FEC 100's so usually I have enough capacity but there are those occasions when I am trying to smoke like 350# of meat on them.

I have a good pair of insulated gloves and usually I just pull out one rack and kind of hook the corner in under the fire pot somewhere. If you are careful it works fine. Then you can rotated everything around and finish by putting the first rack back in the last spot. Top and bottom are hottest so if doing a big load of butts with like 4 racks, take the middle up and down and bring your top and bottom to the middle. Guess you could rotate 180 degrees when they are out but I usually don't and get by.

Also, I don't usually rotate more than once on a big load at around half way through the cook.

Thanks for the reply. I may give it a shot next time I load it full.

The other option if you have various sized butts or heavy cuts, you can put the largest cuts on the top and bottom racks and they all get finished about the same time.

Any, what mbailey said. He said it better then I could have, without confusing anyone.

The LEFT side is hotter than the RIGHT (if the firepot is on the left) & the back is hotter than the front. When I do rotate, I turn 180 as well. Usually I just put the biggest meat bottom left & smallest meat middle right with probes in both. Fully loaded, hot, and greasy racks are a recipe for disaster (experience comes from mistakes).