Primo Water Oval BBQ Smoker - Junior User manual

Primo “Getting Started” Guide
Grill Components
Dome
Reversible
Cooking Grates
Top Vent
Daisy Wheel
Thermometer
Bands Fire Box
Fire Box
Divider
Base
Fire Grate
Draft Door
Cooking Configurations
Primo Ceramic Grills can be used as a grill, an oven, a roaster, or a smoker.
Grilling & Searing
Use this configuration for
grilling meat such as steaks,
chicken breasts, or any foods
that benefit from cooking
directly over the charcoal fire.
Grilling & Roasting
Use direct and indirect cooking
zones to grill meat on the
direct side, while roasting
tender foods like seafood and
vegetables on the indirect side.
Baking, Roasting & Smoking
Use this configuration for
indirect cooking such as an
oven or smoker. Cook at low
to medium temperatures for
baking pizza or smoking meat.
(Heat Deflectors/Racks required).

Cooking Instructions
Lighting the Grill
1. Build a mound of natural lump charcoal. Use full fire box of
charcoal for smoking and searing temperatures (Figure 1), or half
a fire box of charcoal for roasting and smoking (Figure 2).
2. Light the charcoal with a fire starter cube or two, and you can
also use chimney starter or electric starter.Leave the dome open.
3. Wait 5-10 minutes for the charcoal to build a small bed of embers.
4. Close the dome, then fully open the draft door (Figure 3) and
fully open the top vent (Figure 4) by sliding the top disk all the
way to the right.
Adjust the air flow as needed as the temperature rises to
reach your target temperature. Generally, you can set the draft
door to fully open or close it down to a 3 cm opening for low
temperature cooking (Figure 5).
5. adjust the top vent to achieve your target temperature.
Tip: Charcoal can be relit 2-3 times for multiple cookings. Use the
ash tool to stir the used charcoal, so the ashes will drop through
the fire grate. Add 30% new charcoal to the existing charcoal
and build a new mound. This works well for roasting and grilling
temperatures.
Tip: You can’t have too much charcoal, but you can have too little.
Advisory: NEVER use lighter fluid or any other combustible liquid
to light the charcoal. It will be absorbed by the ceramics and impart
a “fuel” taste to your food.
Controlling the Temperature
1. Close the dome and fully open the top vent.
2. When you are 5°C from your target temperature, close the top
vent down to one quarter open.
3. Wait one minute and close or open the top vent to lower or
increase the temperature. A .75 cm can change the temperature
by as much as 5°C.
Low Temperature Cooking
1. For “low and slow” temperatures like 225°F, start with a very
small fire in one area of the charcoal.
2. Close the dome and allow the temperature to come up slowly
with the draft door open 2” and the top vent open 1/2” and the
daisy wheel holes fully open.
Tip: Allow the temperature to rise slowly up to your target
temperature. It is easy to raise the temperature, but very dicult to
lower it.
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Figure 4
Figure 5
Figure 1