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[Winnie]

Giving it another crack tonight. I've got some pork belly with skin removed, gave it a dry rub early this morning and put it in the oven at about 1pm.
Cooking in apple juice and giving it a spritz with apple juice every half hour or so. Cooking much lower than the last pork I tried.



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[PeeBee]

Looks great Chris, keen to see final outcome and how it tasted, did you cook using the stone under the tray?

[Winnie]

Yeah mate I've never taken the stone out. I've got an oven thermometer in there and it's slowly cooking at about 120*C

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[Winnie]

Anybody have some tips as to why my heat beads on top would be dying out? They are fully ashed over but barely getting any heat out of them. Just chucked a couple more firelighters in and some fresh beads and it has reignited the old ones as well.

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[MB]

Pork Belly's looking really great mate :-) !
Regards heat beads, it's all new to me too but possibly our cheapo brands? With my new adventures also have just blown the white ash off them over the edge of the deck. Reckon you're in the new shed maybe so not such a good idea, lol :-)

[Winnie]

Pork Belly's looking really great mate :-) !
Regards heat beads, it's all new to me too but possibly our cheapo brands? With my new adventures also have just blown the white ash off them over the edge of the deck. Reckon you're in the new shed maybe so not such a good idea, lol :-)

Just got it under the carport for now but I don't think Amz would be happy with briquette dust all over the foot path haha.



I've just wrapped the pork up in foil with some more apple juice and put it back in the oven to make it seriously tender.

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[Sir Roofy]

Anybody have some tips as to why my heat beads on top would be dying out? They are fully ashed over but barely getting any heat out of them. Just chucked a couple more firelighters in and some fresh beads and it has reignited the old ones as well.

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Its winter mate cold air damp air try covering till they get going

[PeeBee]

Pork Belly's looking really great mate :-) !
Regards heat beads, it's all new to me too but possibly our cheapo brands? With my new adventures also have just blown the white ash off them over the edge of the deck. Reckon you're in the new shed maybe so not such a good idea, lol :-)

Could have something there MB. If you are struggling, maybe have a try next time with charcoal. You can buy it at Bunnings by the box. I found it generates more heat per mass than the heat beads but won't burn for so long. All a bit of experiment in some regards. Looking at the small amount of coals on top, I would say you are doing really well to hold that temperature Ove an extended period. Really looks good though.

[Winnie]

Could have something there MB. If you are struggling, maybe have a try next time with charcoal. You can buy it at Bunnings by the box. I found it generates more heat per mass than the heat beads but won't burn for so long. All a bit of experiment in some regards. Looking at the small amount of coals on top, I would say you are doing really well to hold that temperature Ove an extended period. Really looks good though.

Hmm, I've only got 1 bag of beads left so might try charcoal next time.
I'm trying to use less beads to keep the heat down. Maybe there weren't enough to keep the heat up and that's why they died out.

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[MB]

Been thinking about getting one of these or making similar for home use only maybe Phil mate!
https://www.bunnings.com.au/heat-bea...imney_p3170712
China a while back was street feasting on I hope awesome 'chicken skewers' over open charcoal/beads. They had a 'chimney' system self feeding/rolling into steel guttering to keep their temps optimum :-)