Controlling the temperature when using charcoal briquettes for smoking meat is crucial for achieving the desired results. It is crucial for making the food cooked evenly and not leaving a raw spot behind, it also makes your food have a good flavor of taste.
Here are the variant ways to control the temperature when using charcoal briquettes for smoking meat:
The minion method is lighting a few charcoal, and then when the charcoal starts to burn and becomes gray, you put other charcoal on top of it. This can make the heat stable, and also will not overheat. And with this, you will have a low temperature for a longer time.
More air means hotter fire, and less air means reduced heat. You can use this and find the best spot for controlling your temperature.
By using a thermometer, you can identify the temperature more accurately. This is sometimes used for restaurants. If the temperature is over your standards, you can turn it low by touching the briquettes until it gets a lower temperature. You can place the thermometer near the meat to get an accurate reading.
Grilling is a skill that takes time, so sometimes an error is okay. Try to practice target temperature by playing with the charcoal, and also try to control and balancing the grill airflow to make sure it stays stable.
You can do this technique by dividing your grilling area in two, one with charcoal and other one without. After that when you grill the charcoal and you feel you need to lift it up a little moment, then you can lift it up and put it in another area (the grill area near you without the charcoal), or the better is, you can have 2 grilling areas, the first one is a hot zone, while the other one is the lower heat zone. With charcoal briquettes, you can easily pour the hot briquettes to the hot zone and let a few briquettes you put on the low heat zone.
If your temperature of grilling is reduced, you can add a little more charcoals, but you must be careful not to overdo it and overshoot your target temperature. Because if you overdo it, your briquettes will have lower heat, and then it will turn off. Make sure you add the briquettes one by one.
