You don’t have to remove ash after every cook since you will be burning lump charcoal which produces minimal ash.
In fact, it is probably better if you don’t clean the ash out after every cook.
Ash is very good at insulating and a small amount of ash sitting on the bottom of your cooker will help keep the temperature down beneath the cooker. You only need to clean ash from the cooker when it is blocking the airflow from the vent up through the fire.
Very little ash accumulates around the outside of the fire box, so you also don’t need to remove the fire box very often to clean out behind it.
The most important thing to do before every cook is to make sure that the air holes in the fire box are not blocked and that the holes in your grate are also not blocked.
Post time: Sep-29-2022