More than once, the rain has arrived soon after a cook, while waiting for the ash to cool, turning what should be a quick job into something irksome: bricks out of the base, water scooped out, then the wet ash and leftover coals scooped out after it. Interestingly, there’s no drainage hole anywhere in the bucket, so once water is inside the base it stays there, seeping out of the weld joints slowly, weathering the frame.
The absence of drainage is the clearest miss with the P1. Put simply,…

