Cooksie
Well-known member
Whoa!! Minion Method! LOL!
The Minion Method just means to mound up a pile of unlit charcoal in the bottom of your cooker, and dump a chimney of hot charcoal on top of it. Jim Minion first posted about the method he developed 15 - 20 years ago on the BBQ Forum http://www.rbjb.com/rbjb/rbjbboard/ (where they taught me how to cook low and slow BBQ, and where I learned how to learn how to compete), when he was trying to keep the starting temps low in his Weber Smokey Mountain smoker. He revolutionalized the low and slow fire starting at the time.
Yes, you can add unlit charcoal to an already-hot fire.
The BBQ forum is a wonderful place to ask detailed questions about low and slow cooking, as well as grilling. But you can ask here, too - some of us know a little about it here as well.
The photos below are of 1) Jim Minion, and 2) my friend, Ray Lampe (DrBBQ) and Jim, competing at an Iron Chef challenge at the
International Invitational Jack Daniels BBQ competition in Lynchburg, TN .
Lee
I saw him on Chopped the other night!