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    32 KK ?

    That's what I'm referring too....you've got big slopes for a walkout backyard unless you have a larger lot. I'm trying to imaging how you move a 1000 lb beast down such a slope.
  2. sumrtym

    32 KK ?

    So has anyone successfully moved a 32" into a walkout backyard, and how did you do it?
  3. I know someone posted these before, but for the life of me I can't find it. Anyone know where the pictures are on this board? I tried search but was having no luck. EDIT: Found one, but weren't there others? viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1120&p=9757&hilit=bge#p9757
  4. I believe Dennis said foam had been cut for a smaller (perhaps portable) cooker? Any more info on this?
  5. Just wondered if Cris was going to be there this weekend and if was bringing a KK?
  6. Didn't buy one, but the last of the BKG here are at $450, not $300. I think they lowered briefly to $299 and then upped them to $449 since they started selling fast and they figured they could get the higher "reduced" price. I think a lot of people will buy it to use at home but still have the ability to travel with it. It's also a nice thing for people in apartments that couldn't handle a Komodo Kamado due to space, moving, etc. I don't know that the cup shape for rain changed between the Steel Keg and the Bubba Keg...I know the airflow cuts did. With both Ace and another major retailer carrying the new ones, I figure at some point I can pick one up at a large discount again and have the benefits of the newer model. I'm patient (obviously, still lusting after a KK some day).
  7. Ya, I know, I just didn't want it to come off wrong. I have the utmost respect for Dennis and the job he does with the cookers. I just thought they were cool when I saw them (hadn't heard about them before) as there isn't anything else on the market that is a kamado style grill that is designed to be transported easily. I knew myself and many others had been looking for an easy to transport model to use for picnics, camping, etc, and here's an 18.5" (I think) grill size that fits the bill. I just have visions of something with a rotisserie, dedicated temperature probe hole, and a bit higher quality while keeping all the benefits of the keg (the dolly style wheeling ability, big wheels for rough terrain, trailer hitch mount).
  8. Well, I don't have a use for the 48" size myself, but if you entertained a lot I certainly see it (or catered). The 32" might be something to consider, but I wonder about how evenly it cooks. One of the stated reasons for the OTB shape was to better provide an even cooking surface over the standard round. Now we're getting away from that with the new shapes (necessary if expanding of course cause you can't keep increasing depth). Still, it makes me wonder if I might have to do less juggling of the things on my grill if you got an OTB instead of the larger sizes. I had been after Dennis to make a portable unit, but now I think he probably ought to forget about the portable as I found another neat solution to that. I was perusing when I came across the Bubba Keg Grill. It's relatively new (last couple years) and is also an insulated style grill. It's stainless steel with sandwiched oven insulation between the inside and outside sheets, and the same size as a Big Green Egg large. In fact, the accessories for the large BGE fit inside it (platesetter most notably). The cast iron grill rotates to lock down for transport inside the cooker, and it comes with a trailer mount so that the cooker balances on your trailer hitch thus doing away with the problems of transporting a hot ceramic style cooker that takes a long time to cool down. It's being phased out for a replacement they're calling the Big Steel Keg with a few improvements, but for it you'll need to buy the trailer hitch mount separately (it comes with the Bubba). As far as negatives, let me preface by saying I've seen them in person and my thoughts were: 1) The interior paint or whatever is protecting the steel on the inside would probably not survive the heat well over time, plus being scratched by the cast iron grill. 2) A floor model had a broken top grill. The welds had broken and looked very small / cheap, and I see why they failed. 3) I've heard a lot of the temp gauges were not coming calibrated right and were reading much too high. No biggie, calibrate it yourself, just something you should check. 4) Hard to get low temps maintained. Some of that was the temp gauge problem, and others were I think related to the damper. Additionally, I don't know that it shut down well enough to really save your coals from comments I saw again saying the damper on top doesn't get tight enough or needs some sort of cover to set over it aka Big Green Egg style. The quality couldn't even be compared to Dennis units, but some of that too has to do with keeping weight lower if you're going to balance it on a trailer hitch, which I think is just a smart transportation idea. Given these are out there, I don't know that Dennis should push into a portable model, but if he does, I'd love to see many of the ideas of their design (weight, trailer hitch mount, locking mechanism for opening cooker and for locking onto hitch both, maybe even the turnable top grill, etc.) if he went this way with a stainless transportable Komodo Kamado. I'm not trying to point people away from Dennis at all, just we don't have a solution such as this currently that I know of for an easy to transport ceramic style cooker from him or any other manufacturer for that matter, so it's not really a competitor for that function (picnic, tailgate, etc).
  9. It's been around a number of years now. It's actually a Primo shell that Viking wraps in Stainless steel in case you're wondering.
  10. I've got to say, I've liked the black kamado as probably the most "classic" color, but in your pic, I REALLY prefer the brown. Glad you posted a picture in the sun of the two side by side!
  11. Well, there's a TV show called "I Want That!" that typically showcases upscale high end expensive items...not always, but frequently. They are things you typically haven't heard of or seen much of before. It's beyond me why Dennis hasn't tried to get it onto that show.
  12. Sigh. I liked the messed up batch of Autumn Nebula MUCH better. Had a nice brown stone look with a bit of color to it. This regular batch is much too dark and loses the brown brick / stone look to me.
  13. Isn't that new brown selling well? Seems like everytime you've listed one, it hasn't been long before it wasn't available.
  14. Just curious, but looking at the cabinet sketches, wouldn't it really impede the use of a guru and make a rotisserie attachment impossible (as sketched)?
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