----- Original Message ----- From: "Love2Troll" <Love2Troll@kc.rr.com> To: "chile-heads" <chile-heads@globalgarden.com> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 6:03 PM Subject: Re: [CH] Lump Hardwood Charcoal >. The charcoal lumps are so hot that I'll have to put a small pile & a soaked hickory chunk >on one side of the kettle and the peppers on the other side. Will also have to really >*damper down* to control the heat. Its real tough to get cool enuf to smoke without cooking the peppers. I finally resorted to hot plate(thanks Jim M) with a cast iron pan in cooker to acheive desired results. After a little thinking have decided even a large cardboard box with low temp smoke source(hot plate) would work just fine Buzz