Zorro

I have a BB-Q Guru with the 10 CFM fan mounted on a 3 year old OTB Supreme. I noticed that the charcoal on the opposite side of the grill gets hotter than the side closest to the fan location. Has anyone else experienced this and what did you do to fix this problem. I basically use my KK for grilling and rotisserie cooking. My problem is in Colorado at 9,700 feet elevation so the addition of forcing air into the grill helps a lot. If I just open the dampers up, I get uniform ignition of the charcoal--but it takes at least 2 1/2 hours to get the thing lit good. That doesn't work so well at a vacation home when there is a lot of activity and a lot of spontaneous cooking without a lot of planning. I always light the charcoal with 2 of the modified Harbor Freight torches that we saw on this web site. (In Colorado, Mapp Gas gets it going a lot faster than regular propane.) I have thought about putting some sort of deflector in front of the fan to disperse the air current inside the lower chamber. Any suggestions? Zorro

Breckenridge, Colorado 3 year old 23" OTB Supreme, BBQ-Guru, Rotisserie, Gas (970) 453-4033. Here 'till Mid April, 2009 then gone back to Wichita, Kansas. Back again late June 2009 until late October, 2009.

Glass Black Gen 2.2 Ultimate OTB BQ-Guru & Rotisserie.(316) 634-2739 Gone to Colorado till mid April, 2009 & again Mid June till October, 2009 Zorro

Dennis, Those are some great looking tiles! Zorro

Everyone is supposedn to seal their KK every so often. I just sealed mine after two seasons and hated the idea of using a paint brush to go over the many joints. Instead, I bought a $2.49 spray bottle and sprayed the sealer over the entire bar-b-q. It went really fast. BUT, I hated the way the once shiney tiles looked with a smudgy film all over. The solution to that--I used a new dry Scotch guard spunge like it was sand paper and it cleaned off the film leaving the grout joints sealed and the tiles like new. I don't know if this would damage the tiles but from the way it looks, I don't think so. If there is a better way to seal the joints in a reasonable amout of time without harming the tile surface, I would love to hear from you! Zorro

My wife said YOU WHAT? HOW MUCH? Actually, we talked about it a lot. It's a lot of fun and pretty lickety split too! Zorro

EZ-Que dirive shaft problems Hi Dennis, I am having the same trouble as everyone else keeping the square drive shaft in place on my EZ-Que with the 110v motor upgrade. I sort of have it fixed now with the shaft collar I bought after I saw it posted in the forum. I was also having trouble getting the basket itself to stay in place inside the KK Supreme. For now I have also fixed this problem with the shaft collar on the basket shaft to keep it from going into the socket too far. I think that the motot drive shaft is too short by about 3/4" and the motor bracket does flex quite a bit with something heavy in the EZ-Que. When you get a permanent solution available, please sign me too! Zorro

Dennis, I think 7' tall it too tall! I used to be in the packaged concrete business. We only packaged our bags about 3'-4' high on the pallet. At 7', you will likely have some boxes collapse or some truck will turn sharply and tip a pallet over no matter how carefully you put it on the pallet. Unfortunately, if you make the pallet too short, the trucker will probably stack the pallets making the problem even worse. I know charcoal is a lot lighter than concrete but 7' provides a pretty high center of gravity. Why don't you do an experiment to see what is the ideal height that provides some high degree of confidence in the shipping industries ability to deliver a pallet undamaged! Zorro

Welcome back Thanks Dennis--and welcome back. I will definietly take a smaller pallet unless someone shows up and wants a lot. I can't take delivery until I get back to Wichita this fall but I am willing to pay now to hold it. Let me know if that works for you. I know it costs money to store stuff in a warehouse. The pictures of the place you stayed in Bali were incredible. I will show my wife Lisa--she loves exotic trips and I would love to take her. We are coming to LA by car leaving Thursday to get our house in Los Feliz ready to sell. I do appreciate your concern about my little acorn nut problem. If you come up with an easy solution, great, otherwise don't sweat it. The thing cooks great and looks as good as it cooks! Thanks, Tom Ritchie

It was a little lopsided--but it didn't come loose and tasted great. The skin wasn't as crispy as aI would have liked it so I will turn up the heat maybe 30 degrees. It is a little tricky cooking things at 9,600 ft elevation and I haven't mastered it completely. Zorro

Here is the ideal setup for rotisserie chicken. BBQ Guru ProCom4, EZQ, (a gin & tonic and good cigar not pictured). Pit temperature set at 320 degrees F. At room temperature, the chicken was rubbed with EVOO, salt, pepper, soy sauce, marjoram, garlic powder, Paul Prudhommes "Poultry Magic", and Lowry's seasoned salt. Do it all on a shallow baking pan because all of this stuff will drip off the chicken. Put the chicken in the EZQ on into the KK. Then mix up what dripped into the baking pan (add more spices if you want) and drizzle it over the rotating chicken shortly after you put it into the KK--not later. I added one small mesquite chunk previously soaked in water to give the chicken a teriffic smoked flavor. It cooked for slightly more than an hour. Exact time depends on starting temperature and size of chicken. Let it rest for about 10 minutes uncovered before carving. YUM! (even if I do say so myself) By the way, this is Colorado--not senic Wichita! Zorro

Johnnyboy's Burkka Cover The embroidered "eyes" were digitized from a photo and then a machine stitched it up. My next one for Wichita will have blue eyes. If someone wants one of these, I can probably get it. (Hopefully you would be williing to help defray a small portion of my $100 extra cost to have the photo digitized). Anyway, I can't remember what the company charged for the embroidery but whatever my cost is will be yours. I left Johnnyboy's cover with them and they attached it. (I don't know if it was embroidered directly on the cover.) I suspect they made the eyes then attached them to the cover. Zorro

Here is one of Johnnyboy's OTB covers with "Eyes" added to freak out my friends before they get close enough to really see it. This cover is extremely well made and has seen two winters outside at 9,600 feet elevation--it still looks great. Johnnyboy makes great covers! Zorro

Wichita, Kansas or Breckenridge, Colorado (Prefer Wichita unless you want a lot of the pallet. I will be in Breckenridge most of the summer & fall from about July 20th through late September.) Zorro

OK, I'll take a pallet. Zorro