10 Kamado Joe MISTAKES Everyone Makes (and How to Fix Them)

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Every Kamado owner makes these mistakes at first (I know I did) — from choking the fire to losing temperature control. In this video, I’ll show you how to diagnose and fix the 10 most common Kamado Joe mistakes so you can cook like a pro pitmaster.

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00:00 – Top 10 Kamado Joe & Big Green Egg beginner mistakes
00:54 – 10. Not building heat in the dome before you start cooking
03:59 – 9. Too much charcoal in your Kamado
06:11 – 8. Not waiting for clean blue smoke (blue vs. white smoke)
08:04 – 7. Not using tools like data properly to learn from each cook
09:45 – 6. Not having a workbook plan / schedule to get food to finish when you want
12:00 – 5. Over correcting mid cook adjustments (the temp yo-yo)
14:28 – 4. Not cleaning your grill which limits high heat (clean burn)
17:03 – 3. Skipping maintenance (dome bands and temp gauge)
19:27 – 2. Too much smoking wood (how to make your spouse hate your food)
21:21 – 1. Overcoming our inner perfectionist

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34 Comments

  4. Thank you so much, James! Your presentation so thoughtful and thorough, as well as encouraging; especially, for a newbie owner of a just purchased KJoe Classic 2. I’m looking forward to heeding your tips as I begin my journey with smoke! 👍 Thank you, again ! Bernadette 😊

  11. Hi James, I watched several of your videos as I am considering getting a big joe in near future. There is one question I have: what about spraying the proteins? You hardly mention that. Coming from the kettle world, I was spraying every 30 min. or so. Is it the same for kamado?

  15. Hi,
    When I read the title I told myself "well this will be the usual tips I see everywhere", and in fact no! You gave really news, precious and important tips, thanks for that as I will go from my Weber 5770 to a barbecook kamado shorty and your videos really helped me to be more confident.

    I appreciate your job
    Greetings from France!

  17. I own a large Webber Genesis , fantastic grill. And a Traeger XL, today I made the jump and got myself a big joe III. I was a little scared afterwards wondering if I should have gone with a Webber kettle but after watching a bunch of your videos I’m super happy with my BJ III choice!

  22. I just experienced the “Low and Super Slow Method”… lol started the big joe 3 at 7pm checked it at 11 pm before going to sleep. Got up at 6 am and found all the big block exhausted and the fire only smoldering. Luckily the 2 pork butts were at 140 degrees. I put in oven at 220 degrees for an hr while I rebuilt the fire etc. Now back on at 220 we will see how it goes… 😂

  27. I can tell you from experience of owning a Big Joe for the last 5 years, one of the reasons most people are compelled to over fuel their cookers is because it is such a PITA to load more fuel on any Kamado style cooker. If your food grates are loaded with food, probes, a water pan, and an aluminum pan for drippings, you inevitably will load your fuel so that you don’t have to do that very often. Also, it takes time to move all of that out of the way just to add fuel, and so during that time, what fire you do have is getting a huge gulp of air which causes whatever steady temperature you had scream out of control. I’ve lost many eyebrows that way. So thanks for the tip on closing the lower vent to keep that to a minimum.

  28. Great Chanel, new to Kamado cooking but learning from your you tube Chanel. I have just watched you cook double indirect on a brisket using your classic3, where you were using the heat deflector plates, this I find I cannot do with my slow roller on my ckassic2 as there is no room to clear the roller using the lower setting. Could you please advise? Thanks for a very informative Chanel.
    John U.K.

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