Metal charcoal grills really radiate and loose heat like a sieve looses water. Low and Slow cooking in a ceramic smoker is how meat soaks up the complex flavors from the charcoal and your smoking woods added for a targeted flavour profile.
The results of burning these enormous volumes of charcoal is naturally the huge volumes of air that is required to burn the fuel. Huge volumes of of charcoal must be burned to maintain your low and slow cooking temps thanks to the major proportion of the heat and smoke literally lost out the chimney and heat radiated from the body. This hot dry air dries out your meat and wastes fuel and smoking wood. This is why people love to use smoker and grill.
It's not difficult to find people ranting about the food from their glazed egg-shaped grills. Other ceramic griddles use the mass of their dense glazed bodies to lower heat loss. This has made them known for damp results which they produce.. The truth is a "dense" glazed pot is not insulating unarguably. One can easily confirm this statement by just touching it at gentle heat. Your burned hand will immediately remind you about their lack of insulation.
One the other hand the Komodo Kamado smoker has a 3 layer body, a dense hot-face, a very porous insulation and then jacketed with a high tech acrylic insulation.
This three layers construction requires burning a very small volume of fuel, about a tennis ball worth of charcoal burning to maintain low and slow temps. On long cooks with massive pieces of protein this low airflow essentially creates a steam cloud within the lid. Less airflow also suggests that your smoke will be in touch with your protein for more time before it's vented.
For comparison, one 16 lbs bowl of charcoal at 235f will last for approximately 85 hours. Most metal smokers have to be refilled every 4-5 hours, these numbers speak volumes. The insulation also provides great steadiness for set and forget low and slow cooking.. No more staying up all night looking after your fire and chasing temperature. That is how great engineering makes KK the most well implemented ceramic smoker built.You can easily set your target cooking temp, drop off, wake up to find it chugging away at the same temp you left it..
The results of burning these enormous volumes of charcoal is naturally the huge volumes of air that is required to burn the fuel. Huge volumes of of charcoal must be burned to maintain your low and slow cooking temps thanks to the major proportion of the heat and smoke literally lost out the chimney and heat radiated from the body. This hot dry air dries out your meat and wastes fuel and smoking wood. This is why people love to use smoker and grill.
It's not difficult to find people ranting about the food from their glazed egg-shaped grills. Other ceramic griddles use the mass of their dense glazed bodies to lower heat loss. This has made them known for damp results which they produce.. The truth is a "dense" glazed pot is not insulating unarguably. One can easily confirm this statement by just touching it at gentle heat. Your burned hand will immediately remind you about their lack of insulation.
One the other hand the Komodo Kamado smoker has a 3 layer body, a dense hot-face, a very porous insulation and then jacketed with a high tech acrylic insulation.
This three layers construction requires burning a very small volume of fuel, about a tennis ball worth of charcoal burning to maintain low and slow temps. On long cooks with massive pieces of protein this low airflow essentially creates a steam cloud within the lid. Less airflow also suggests that your smoke will be in touch with your protein for more time before it's vented.
For comparison, one 16 lbs bowl of charcoal at 235f will last for approximately 85 hours. Most metal smokers have to be refilled every 4-5 hours, these numbers speak volumes. The insulation also provides great steadiness for set and forget low and slow cooking.. No more staying up all night looking after your fire and chasing temperature. That is how great engineering makes KK the most well implemented ceramic smoker built.You can easily set your target cooking temp, drop off, wake up to find it chugging away at the same temp you left it..