No charcoal allowed in this competition, what do I do?

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Better start practicing burning a clean fire in that puppy. I'm sure it's possible. If you can master it, the reward will be much better!
 
Can you pre-burn the wood to coals and then add them? You'll need a fire barrel to burn the wood in and a shovel to "spoon" the resulting coals into the firebox. Throw a few small splits into the firebox with the wood coals as you need them. You gonna be busy during that cook.....
 
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No charcoal, propane, or electric. Wood only. On base competition. They provide the meat, we smoke it. Everything else is just standard food safety rules.
 
I think we can preburn wood onsite. It's sounds like the guys running it don't BBQ that much themselves though. Going to the team captain/co-captain meeting on Monday. Need to find out if foiling is allowed, time for judging, if serving material is supplied by us or the command. Lots of questions and not a lot of answers as if yet...

At least it's just a friendly comp (excuse for a day off), no entry fee or prize.
 
Heck yeah burn down your wood to coals! Good old Carolina style! Forgot about that... lol
 
 
Dunno, Willie, it may be worse the farther west you go from the Mississippi:  seems there's more stuff folks can't do in California than what they can.  Feels like anything I open has some disclaimer from or about the Golden State....
That's why G_D made the Continental Divide.
 
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Dunno, Willie, it may be worse the farther west you go from the Mississippi:  seems there's more stuff folks can't do in California than what they can.  Feels like anything I open has some disclaimer from or about the Golden State....

Awhile back I bought a sheet of plywood. After cutting it, I noticed a warning that said "This product contains wood dust; a chemical that has been shown to cause cancer in the state of California"
 
So...this happened...


I didn't think to take photos until after the judging.
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