Wings on the Weber Kettle with the Vortex

[HighOnSmoke]

Yep, another wing cut! Did I mention that we like wings?  Plus the son and his family are still visiting
and they requested wings.

[tomcrete1]

Lookin good Mike! 

[Pam Gould]

Looks great Mike..but not near enough cause U know I like wangs.....☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.

[Jaxon]

Another good lookin' wing cook, Mike.
I notice you didn't pack the Vortex with charcoal, yet you still had plenty of heat for that cook.  On the Vortex page, everybody seems to cram as much charcoal as possible into the V to make it hotter than the next guy's.  Your approach is better, imho, because I don't want to have a huge pile of charcoal left over when I'm finished cookin'.  Seems to me that the V is a great tool to use for conserving charcoal while getting the max temp.

[TMB]

Mike you kill me with this cooks, wings on Sunday!

[ACW3]

They SURE look good!!

Art

[smokeasaurus]

Mike you kill me with this cooks, wings on Sunday!

X2

[HighOnSmoke]

Another good lookin' wing cook, Mike.
I notice you didn't pack the Vortex with charcoal, yet you still had plenty of heat for that cook.  On the Vortex page, everybody seems to cram as much charcoal as possible into the V to make it hotter than the next guy's.  Your approach is better, imho, because I don't want to have a huge pile of charcoal left over when I'm finished cookin'.  Seems to me that the V is a great tool to use for conserving charcoal while getting the max temp.

Very true Jack. I just figured with a short cook and burning lump charcoal, why waste charcoal when 3/4 of a chimney or less will get the job done.  My lid thermometer was running about 500 to 550 the whole cook. So plenty of heat to get the job done.

[Big Dawg]

Another good lookin' wing cook, Mike.
I notice you didn't pack the Vortex with charcoal, yet you still had plenty of heat for that cook.  On the Vortex page, everybody seems to cram as much charcoal as possible into the V to make it hotter than the next guy's.  Your approach is better, imho, because I don't want to have a huge pile of charcoal left over when I'm finished cookin'.  Seems to me that the V is a great tool to use for conserving charcoal while getting the max temp.

Very true Jack. I just figured with a short cook and burning lump charcoal, why waste charcoal when 3/4 of a chimney or less will get the job done.  My lid thermometer was running about 500 to 550 the whole cook. So plenty of heat to get the job done.

Agree ! ! !  I use one of those big commercial ice scoops:

to get charcoal out of my bin on the deck. 

One scoop just about fills the small Weber chimney.  I put a second scoop in the bottom of the Vortex.  That just about does it for wings.  Plenty of heat and not too much leftover.





BD