Vortex - LARGE Enhance your charcoal cooking experience. Take control of your fire by redirecting the flow of heat in your pit. Whether you're looking for the perfect searing zone, or a true indirect heat flow across your kettle or ceramic grill. Works with Lump Charcoal or Briquettes. USE THE VORTEX FOR: INDIRECTLow & Slow Cooking/SmokingThe Vortex can redirect the flow of heat up and around the meat which can turn your kettle into a true indirect ‘smoker’. INDIRECT-DIRECTHigh Heat Indirect CookingIt all started in an effort to get ‘fried-like’ skin on my chicken wings on the grill. DIRECTHigh Heat SearingThis is your searing option. Picture the back of a jet engine where the fire is shooting out of the exhaust cones. This is what you will get that intense sear from. INFRAREDRadiant HeatDue to the grate-to-lid height on a kettle, making an upright (or ‘beer can’) chicken can be difficult to cook in an 18.5” or 22.5” kettle. WHICH SIZE? Using the table below, you can find the right size Vortex that is perfect for your grill. Fitment Small Medium Large* Kettle 18.5" Yes Yes No Kettle 22.5" Yes Yes No Kettle 26.75" Yes Yes No BGE Large Yes No No BGE XLarge Yes Yes Yes Kamado Joe Yes No No UDS Yes Yes Yes Red indicates an ideal fit* A large Vortex will not fit between grates in Kettles 18.5" through 26.75"
