Kamado BBQ Fundamentals

Fire is the single most important ingredient in successful kamado cooking—and is made from just three elements: oxygen, heat and fuel. Learn how to control them, and you’ll know how to control your fire.

Kamado Joe’s innovative grill design simplifies air control. Adjustments to top and bottom vents make it easy to add air to increase heat, or limit air to reduce heat.

Perhaps your first lesson about fire, heat and distance came from the childhood campfires. Maybe you were patient in the pursuit of the ideal golden glow and you held your marshmallow high over the fire, waiting. Maybe you craved the crispy char of a blackened outside so you zipped yours in and out of the flame. Whatever path you chose to marshmallow bliss, the lessons learned about proximity to flame apply for your kamado, too.

Kamado Joe’s game-changing Divide & Conquer cooking system not only makes it easy to control precise distance from fire, it also allows various combinations for multi-level cooking.