Harman TLC 2000 Installation And Operating Manual page 12

building & maintaining a Fire
Ash Pan
Handle
TLC 2000 with cooking grill in action
Disposal of Ashes. The TLC 2000 was designed to
provide access to the ash pan without the need for
opening the main door. Wearing heavy protective
gloves, open the ash door and remove the ash pan by
pulling it forward by the handle. Close the ash door
before taking the ashes outside for safe disposal.
This ensures that the ashes will be cold and safer to
handle than directly after shaking the ashes down or
tending the fire.
Ashes should be placed in a steel container with
a tight fitting lid and moved outdoors immediately.
Handle
The closed container of ashes should be placed
on a noncombustible floor or on the ground, well
away from all combustible materials, pending final
disposal. If the ashes are disposed of by burial in
soil or otherwise locally dispersed, they should be
retained in the closed container until all cinders
have thoroughly cooled. Other waste shall not be
placed in this container.
refueling
by sliding it to the right. Allow the fire to burn vigorously
for several minutes. Shake the grates with short choppy
strokes until the first red coals fall into the ash pan, then
stop! Add coal to the top of the coal bed. It is good to
allow some red hot coals exposed to help ignite the
gases coming off of the newly added coal. These gases
can be volatile if left accumulate. The coal air control
Cooking Grill
may be returned to the desired setting.
Stainless Steel Cooking grill (Optional )
over anthracite coal or wood.
shown at left. The grill can now be lifted and positioned
in the opening on top of the stove as shown below left.
wear gloves when handling the grill.
to a gas grill.
on the type of wood used. More flavor is added when
cooking is done with the top closed. This causes the
heat and smoke to circle around the food.
of heat and cooking time must be experimented with
for best results.
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A good time to empty the ash pan is before loading.
Open the coal air control to the maximum position
The cooking grill can be used for open fire grilling
To install the grill, place the handle in the grill as
CAuTION: COOkINg grIll mAY bE hOT. Always
Cooking on anthracite coal produces flavor similar
Cooking on wood produces many flavors depending
As with grilling or any open fire cooking, the amount