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So...this steak sauce is great in miserable weather. Or so I hear...

Looking tasty there, MacKenzie!

I bought all the fixings to make it,now all I have to do is buy a steak lol or make a hamburger.

That is good news, Bruce.

I agree with Steve, good gloves/mitt is the better solution over longer tongs. Please share your marinade recipe for the Tandoori.

That chicken tandoori had to be soooooooo tasty.

Looks awesome. Are you asking about the long tongs because of the heat? A good pair of heat resistant gloves will fix that.

Title sums it up

Did a slab of ribs with my first attempt at Boston baked beans. Both came out great. My daughter Cassie got her first taste of pork ribs cooked by daddy. She approved. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I got to my local grill house before they managed to package up my dinner. Here is a photo of their grill and grill master, cooking my yummy lamb ribs and chicken wings, amongst other things.

OK, lesson learned. After direct grilling of the fatty lamb ribs, they dripped so much grease onto my charcoal, that I've been having issues with both temperature control and lots of smoke production in subsequent cooks. Next time, I'll put just enough charcoal in the basket to do the ribs and not fill it up, like normal. Here's a pic of tonight's cook (Jerk Chicken thighs). Every time that I opened the lid to flip the chicken, this happened! The good news - it didn't impact the flavor of the chicken. Yes, there's a plated picture - chicken with Jamaican curry rice and a nice side salad. The wine was a very nice Viognier that I picked up at Trader Joe's last week.

Resurrected this old thread as I did another batch of the Denver ribs for a visiting guest, who likes lamb. Simple rub of Sucklebusters SPG (salt, pepper, garlic) and dried Greek oregano on one and fresh rosemary on the other. Cooked @ 275F indirect on peach and hickory wood (smoker pot) to an IT of 185F. I finished them off on the lower grate over direct heat @ 350F (dome) to add some bark and render some more fat. We were hungry, so no plated pics this time. But, they were very tasty.

Much ado about nothing, I think. The new KJ updates look great - and as a current KJ owner, I have no reason to expect they would give me those updates. I don't understand why anyone feels that way. The firebox and top vent will be available and KJ users will get them sooner or later anyway - I'm sure you'll be able to buy one. Or, you can just wait until your current FB cracks or your top vent peels and get new ones. Top vent is not covered in the current lifetime warranty, though, so you might need to buy that one if you want it. It's mostly a cosmetic update anyway. The hinge is a different issue, it required a change in the body. Less likely, but old users can get the upgrade if their shell cracks. If I were in kamado-buying mode, I would have done research. That research should have easily lead me to the fact that KJ was planning big updates on their next model year. Then I would have had to make the choice to buy now or wait. If I bought now, there is no way I would have expected to get the old model essentially replaced by the new one when it came out. Now, if they stopped replacing fireboxes for legacy users, that would be a different story. That would be something to be angry about. I am also not reading the same into Bobby's messaging that the KJ will be like the iPhone where users will need to buy a new one every year. The message I get is that he feels they should not be satisfied with trying to stick to the status quo. Sometimes, upgrading parts will be easily backwards compatible. Sometimes they won't. I don't see it as a "Sorry for your luck" message. I thought is 'Craigslist' trade-in program was a joke... and I thought it was funny. I'm not sure why they felt they had to put tiles on one as a test, but it sounds like they aren't moving forward (and sounds like they never had plans of even moving forward) - so, this could actually help KK. Someone seeing that tiled KJ might think, "Wow, I love the tiled look". Do a Google search for 'tiled kamado' and see where they are likely to browse.

That would have to be pretty miserable.

I have a friend in Milpitas and he says the air quality was awful from the smoke of the fires.