EGGKAMADO CERAMIC GRILL QUICK START
Albert Yao
Manufacturer/ Exporter/Business Development Specialist at BBQ Accessories&Kamado@Fuzhou Iceberg Kamado Grill Co. Ltd. Products deal in Pizza Oven, Kamado Ceramic Grill, BBQ Ovens.
Cooking Configurations
Ceramic Grills can be used as a grill, a oven, a roaster and a smoker.
- Grilling & Searing
Use this configuration to grill meat such as steaks, chicken breasts, or any food that benefit from cooking directly over the charcoal fire.
- Grilling & Roasting
Use direct and indirect cooking zones to grill meat on the direct side, while roasting tender foods like seafood and vegetables on the indirectly side.
- Baking, Roasting & Smoking
Use the configuration for indirect cooking such as an oven or smoker. Cook at low medium temperatures for baking pizza or smoking meat.( Heat Deflectors/Racks required)
Cooking Instructions
- Lighting
- Build a mound of natural lump charcoal. Use fire box of charcoal for smoking and searing temperature, or half a fire box of charcoal basket optional buying for two-zone cooking.
- Light charcoal wiith a fire starter cube or two. Also, chimney staryter or electric starter is a good options. Leave the dome open.
- Wait 5 - 10 minutes until charcoal burning in orange.
- Close the dome,and then fully open bottom vent and top vent by sliding the top disk towards the right most.Carefully and closely reading figure on the thermoter,and adjust air flow when reach your target cooking temperature. For grilling, it is fine to set the bottom door fully open and regulate temperature with top veny. For roasting, keep the draft to 1/3 open.
Control the Temperature
- Follow the "lighting" section above
- When u are 25°F,close down top vent in 1/3 open
- Wait 1 - 2 minutes, and then increase or decrease the air flow of the top vent in 1/4" increments to regulate the temperature.1/4" can change the temperature up or down by as much as 25°F。
Smoking - low temperature cooking
For low temperature cooking like 225°F,start with a very small fire in one area of the charcoal.
Close the dome after 5 minutes with the draft door and top vent fully open. Allow the temperature slowly, and when it reaches 200°F, set the draft door opening,moreover, set the top vent with just the daisy wheel holes fully open. Adjust top vent disk and daisy wheel as needy to maintain in the target temperature.
Internal Temperature Guide