What Matters Most in an Open-Fire Cooking Grill: Size, Space, and Smoke | America’s Test Kitchen



Gone are the days of cooking over a campfire; now you can upgrade a fire pit into a genuine grill. Today, Adam Ried and Julia Collin Davison discuss which open-fire grills deliver in terms of pit size and capacity, which feature grates with plenty of surface area, and which allow for the best control of temperature and smoke.

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  1. Something to keep in mind about anything "smokeless" whether it is a cooking pit, a grill, or a firepit/place: Smoke (and ash) are just unspent fuel. That's it, just wood or whatever that didn't burn completely in the main fire. The hotter the fire the less unspent fuel is left to smoke you out. But the downside of that is the hotter the fire the faster it burns through its fuel. You need to balance that when managing your fire. Hotter fire = less smoke but shorter time enjoying it (or using more fuel), lower fire = more smoke but more time enjoying it (or using less fuel).

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