What kind of weirdo puts the chimney on the grill?!
Somehow I couldn't light the paper. The matches kept going out immediately and when I finally lit the paper it went out immediately, so I finally used a lighter cube:
[not cubical]
The cube worked perfectly, but there are two problems:
I couldn't find my large punch and I probably didn't make enough small ones. Punching holes is annoying and I could only do so much with a church key.
Mom told me that I was doing everything wrong, the paper is supposed to go in the bottom of the chimney, not under it, etc.
If only I had some way of knowing that she would completely ignore everything that I told her and make zero attempt to figure out anything!
I wanted to use the full area for charcoal, but when the top coals were glowing, they had sunk about 25%, and the bottom ones may have been used up.
I didn't take pictures of the coals out of the chimney, I put new ones on top immediately. I took the picture before I piled them:
Cook's Illustrated claimed the Weber chimney was big enough for a full load of charcoal, but obviously they don't know anything!
I tried looking up "What is bigger than a #10 can," but everything talked about how big a #10 can is.
I specifically wrote "Bigger!" Must go bigger!
I am thinking that I buy a large steel pan and put bigger holes in the bottom.
I should really put handles on it!
With a wider and shallower container the bottom coals will still be good when the top ones are ready.