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          "name": "What's the most common kamado mistake?",
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            "text": "Overshooting the target temperature by leaving the vents wide open too long. Ceramic stores heat and coasts upward; start closing the vents 75–100°F before your target, not when you hit it."
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          "name": "Why shouldn't I open the lid often when cooking?",
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            "text": "Each lid opening floods the firebox with oxygen and causes a temperature spike, followed by a long recovery. On a kamado, 'if you're looking, you're not cooking' is literally true — every peek costs 15–20 minutes of stability."
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            "text": "Yes, and it's dangerous. When the lid is closed at high heat and starved of oxygen, opening fully sends a fireball outward. Always crack the lid 2–3 inches first, wait 10 seconds, then open fully — this is called burping the kamado."
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            "text": "Never. Ceramic absorbs the chemicals and your food will taste like petroleum for months. Use wax cubes, paraffin starters, or an electric looftlighter. This is a kamado-killer mistake worth repeating."
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