Why the Kick Ash Basket is a Big Green Egg Essential

Mastering Why the Kick Ash Basket is a Big Green Egg Essential begins with understanding that high-quality gear transforms your entire outdoor cooking experience. You must move beyond the standard components that come with your grill to find tools that actually impact every single cook. This process ensures that you maximize the potential of your ceramic cooker by optimizing how you manage your charcoal. Because the Big Green Egg relies on consistent oxygen, the Kick Ash Basket remains the most effective tool for maintaining a healthy fire. You will find that adding this one piece of equipment is a mechanical necessity for reclaiming your precious prep time.

To achieve the best results, you should focus on accessories that simplify the setup and cleanup of your firebox. This technique ensures that you spend less time raking through old ash and more time focusing on the quality of your BBQ. You will discover that the ability to shake the basket and clear debris is the most reliable way to improve overall efficiency. Now, you should prepare to experience a faster light-up time and more responsive temperature control during your next session. Because this tool changes the way you interact with your grill, you are ready to reach a new level of “Egg Head” mastery. Once you see the difference in airflow, you will understand why this basket is a permanent staple in my rotation.

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Kick Ash Basket Review

Efficiency | ih-fish-uh n-see | noun

1. The state or quality of being efficient, or able to accomplish something with the least waste of time and effort; competency in performance.
2. Accomplishment of or ability to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of time and effort.

Deciding to ditch your gas grill and cook on a Kamado style cooker is a commitment. In fact, you could say it is a commitment to excellence! But along with that commitment is work. As you get used to setting up the Big Green Egg for your cooks you look to optimize the time it takes for you to get up and running. Let’s call it for what it is, you want to eat that delicious BBQ you are about to cook!

Enter in the Kick Ash Basket. I bought mine a couple of months ago as I grew tired of seeing a lot of my friends in Big Green Egg Nation use this new tool. I resisted at first asking myself, “What’s wrong with the Ash Tool I already have”! Well, once I had the Kick Ash Basket I knew right away what I had been missing. The ability to shake the basket, removing the ash and small debris was a real time saver. In addition, it couldn’t have been easier. If there was anything easier than raking the lump charcoal with the Ash Tool this was it!

Chad (from Kick Ash Basket) reached out to me and asked if I wanted to try their new and improved design. The new basket he had for me to try had a significantly larger wire diameter than the original and could now be used with or without your lower charcoal grate. Wait a minute (I asked myself) how could they have made the Kick Ash basket any better?! Well, Chad just did…

Not having to remove the lower charcoal grate after each cook just simplified another task allowing me to get setup and cooking faster! This was brilliant and I had to try it out for the first time to see how well this worked.

I removed the lump charcoal, removed the original Kick Ash Basket, and began to clean up the Large Egg.

After removing the Grill Grate it was time to clean up all the Ash that had fallen below.

Next, I placed the new and improved Kick Ash Basket in the Fire Box.

Now it was time for me to load this up with Lump Charcoal and test this new Kick Ash Basket out!

Lighting the Lump Charcoal is easy and lights quickly with improved air flow. I was up and ready to cook right away!

Now that the Big Green Egg was setup and lit I had to cook something right?!?! Well it just so happens that May is National Hamburger Month so inspiration was not far away. The juicy burgers below were Greek Burgers made with Lamb, Ground Beef, and Feta that tasted fantastic… you’d even say they “Kicked Ash”!

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