More than a few months ago Chilebrown stopped by to drop off some bacon he’d made and gave me this Air-Grill thingy. It’s a hand-held hand driven portable blower that allows you to get a jolt of constant air in to your grill or smoker fire. At first glance it seemed jicky and didn’t seem to me that’d blow much air. CB said he felt it worked quite well and I left it at that.
Over the coming months I used it more and more frequently. While I don’t need help with getting the initial fire going, when you add cold hunks of wood to an existing fire, it’s nice to give it a jump start. Plus it means less of a temp drop in your smoker. My next job for the little beast was to assist the hickory chips to ignite cleaner. See, if you add too much smoking chips to your fire, you’ll get a lofty white smoke with clear tinges of brown. That’s bad, that’s creosote and it’s bitter. The Air Grill now allows me to get the chips going, worry free. I consider this tool as essential as my leather gloves, lighter and wood. I haven’t tried it yet, but I think it would be good for dust/coal maintenance for outdoor dutch oven cooking. Thank you CB for the best grill gift EVER.
Biggles
MeatHenge
"If it ain't pork, it ain't sausage"
Yikes, Cranky’s going to need one a’ those. He’s a beast about tossing in cold wood chunks and too much bitter hickory chips. Such a boy.
Chile Brown’s gizmo to the rescue.
I guess I could pretend Cranky’s a dad and get him one for Father’s Day.
Such a simple device,with great results. A hand cranked bellows.They make a great stocking stuffer, or gift for the barbeque fanactic. No! I do not work for the Company. Chilebrown
I’ll have to check it out. Would it be a good thing to stock at DIF?
Hey Pragmatic,
I don’t know, you’d have to make that call on your own. But if I had any kind of store, online or otherwise, I know I would be carrying it.
Biggles