linuxwrangler Posted September 1, 2008 Report Posted September 1, 2008 Went to light the thing on Sunday and had flame coming out of the draft door. Shut off the gas, flames stayed. And stayed. Opened the top all the way. Still had flames at the bottom. Carefully opened the lid and got a bit of a puff but with the lid open, I had a nice fire going. No gas. It took several minutes before I could close the grill though it was still burning inside. Got to 600 lickety-split. I finally figured it out. Apparently I left the gas open a tiny bit when I turned off the lighter Saturday evening (it seemed to open a bit more easliy than usual on Sunday). The charcoal was about 50/50 original good Kamado and recent lousy Kamado and doing what charcoal does, it absorbed a pretty good amount of the slowly leaking propane leading to 10 minutes or so of flaming charcoal. I do turn off the gas at the tank but it's a new tank (old one didn't have OPD) and the valve has a bit different feel than the old one. Coulda been worse: http://www.gocomics.com/features/66/fea ... ems/380002
