2tiki
Well-Known Member
I did go lower. The best I was able to do when I lowered it enough was just getting a very tiny, maybe 15% at most of the bowl would turn brown, leaving the rest of the bowl uncooked, and after stirring a few times, I'd have to wait many minutes for the GTR to be hot enough to produce any vapor, and I was only getting some wispy vapor. It's not just scorching. Maybe I didn't explain it well. The scorch I'm referring to is a burned hot spot near the center of the bowl.
I should have put it this way. I'm getting hot spotting. When I was saying "scorch" I meant that the hot spot was still getting way too hot compared to the rest of the bowl, and trying to find a temp that had half a chance of cooking the rest of the bowl would scorch the hotspot. Low enough to just cook the hotspot to a nice brown was not a worthwhile experience, and took way to long getting barely any vapor.
The screens I added are meant to diffuse the hot air so I don't just get the hot spot.
Now the heat is spread much more evenly, and I only scorch the bowl if I take too long of a draw.
Even if I'm "doing it wrong"(aka a non standard method), but it is working, I don't get why I should start over trying to get the original method working. I ran over 30 bowls through the GTR before trying the added screens for diffusion.
