The main issue with bbq is temperature control
few people pay attention to this, nor have a temp gauge on their grill
which is why most people get burnt results and uncooked inside
and to make matters worse most people dont know that a fully covered grill
keeps the heat uniform and will actually cook faster overall
99% of coals people using them 1/2 cut drum without a proper cover
so they lose the majority of the btu's and the meat only cooks on the surface hence burning quick but raw inside AND because the drum open the coals get full oxygen and burn fullspeed and too hot
proper coal grills have vents on top and below, the below ones are used to regulate how much air passes and hence how hot the coals burn.
just like anything else you need to use and know the characteristics of your charcoal grill, or just use gas
the jamaicans smarter, if you go to jamaica there are bbq/jerk people
on every corner
and they make the drum grills with a pipe vent on top and vents below
and their grills are always closed
I have a homemade charcoal chimney to giveaway if anybody is interested since I no longer use it.
The local Weber distributor is having a Weber day at Peakes Saturday,
free food samples whole afternoon
it is worth it to go and see charcoal grills in operation
those guys are pretty good, the last one they had they made cakes, brownies and all kinda thing in the charcoal grills
if you tired of the regular tomato based bbq sauce chicken
this is a top notch recipe
http://tvwbb.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tp ... 028563/p/1
not the regular grill and then burn a sauce onto the meat thing