Cooks on a kettle with snake
The eight cooker classes these logs were produced on, with the fuel schedule each one needs.
Kettle with snake 3 entries
A 57 cm kettle with a snake of briquettes banked round the rim. Fine for ribs and poultry; you rebuild the snake for anything past six hours.
DateCutWood
CookerWeightResult
14 Sep 2026
Whole chicken, spatchcocked
Cherry
Kettle with snake
4.0 lb / 1.8 kg
Skin crisp all over, breast at 74°C and legs at 82°C at the same time4.7/5
11 Sep 2026
Baby back ribs
Apple
Kettle with snake
2.9 lb / 1.3 kg
Clean bite, bone bare, two and a half hours start to plate4.6/5
23 Aug 2026
Whole skin-on pork belly
Cherry
Kettle with snake
7.1 lb / 3.2 kg
Skin crackled, but the lean layer under it was overdone4.3/5
