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I have come to realise that you have to be careful with @tekobo and define your unit of measurement as she normally works in 'herds'. 🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄 🐄

I guess I'm just a thrifty guy Ckreef...not to be mistaken with cheap, please. I keep the vents low and do mostly long slow delicious cooks requiring just a touch of heat. A style developed by admiring cooks as yours but, with a discerning eye to fuel conservation. Truly, just an estimate, but obviously approaching your desire for fuel would only make me come out of retirement and "get a job". And that my friend would be a reverse in course for my approach too life. I will try, as hard as it may be, it may take a while but, for now as most minor leaguers we keep working and waiting for our chance to be called up. I wonder, your appetite for fuel...are there any trees left in the yard?

First off. What is with that new profile photo of yours @Pequod? Worried about the amount of chest hair on show on a family forum! When I talk about a fraction of cow I am talking in quarters and halves here. i am picking up my forequarter of Dexter in the morning having, finally, fessed up to The Husband about the purchase on the same day as I also agreed on the delivery date for the hindquarter of a dairy cow. We will be eating beef three ways and more for quite a while. I will take a look at @Braai-Q's haul while I am there but his will be going by courier next week. I am hoping he likes it!!!

Happy to contribute I hope the serve the need. I have my leg lamp ready, bring on the memories!!

My dad often bought quarters of a cow, and sometimes a half, when I was a kid. I was hoping for lots of steaks and roasts, but at least half of it ended up as ground beef! @Pequod - I praised you in another thread for the avatar change and now you go and get the movie wrong - that's Ralphie from A Christmas Story, with the bar of soap in his mouth as punishment for cussing when he dropped the lug nuts while helping his Dad change the flat tire!

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to @Tucker for these incredibly well made moving boxes for my KK’s! These are super sturdy and will definitely survive the move unless the movers severely manhandle them. Please consider these a community resource. I will gladly send to anyone who needs them for a move once I’m done with them in February. Just PM me or post here.

Haven't seen these before so I thought I'd give em a go. I remember when Lays came out with BBQ chips and vinegar chips as novelties...the evolution revolution continues... and happy to say it brings us these. Grind them up and you got a nice cheesy BBQ Rub for ribs, who knows.

Thanks. Seems like a reasonable idea to save them, so I’ll plan on doing so. Came over from 10+ years using a Grill Dome. The difference is remarkable in quality and control. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I can see you 4 now, sitting on your recliners with your Daisy BB's locked and loaded.

@Pequod - Just noticed the change in avatar - LOVE IT! Just in time for the 24 hour marathon of A Christmas Story on TCM!!

When I was young they used to advertise on tv buying a whole or half or quarter of a cow and they throw in a freezer to keep it frozen. In fact I think my parents bought in to it.

Done many lump tests recently. Not happy with Cowboy and Rockwood, threw the remainder of those bags in the trash. Lump cost can be very deceiving. If a lump costs twice as much but burns twice as long did it really cost more? Lump made from South American hardwoods are generally superior than lumps made from North American hardwoods. South American hardwood trees are just denser wood to begin with. Fogo Quebracho is really good. My only complaint is that it can have some really large pieces that would need to be busted up. My current favorite is Jealous Devil. It's made from South American hardwoods and the pieces are the proper size to dump straight from the bag. It can be ordered from BBQguys with free shipping. Just order it a few days ahead of time and it'll be waiting on your doorstep when you get home. @Tyrus if you only go through 300#'s a year you need to get cooking I burn through close to 100#'s per month. Maybe starting January 1st I'll keep track of how much lump I use. Sort of like my how often do I grill outside thread. Could be interesting.

I recently bought a couple of 34LB bags of Frontier hardwood lump at BJ's a kinda Costco store here in New England. They had a Recommended review on The Naked Whiz with 51% at 5 and 39% at 4, pretty good. Less than $20 a bag and the quality of the bag itself was superior. I use upwards of around 300# per year to cook so I'm generally looking for a good domestic, this guy and Royal oak won't break the bank and your food won't suffer terribly. Mind you, it's not CocoChar but if you use a lot you have to be willing to experiment

If I'm not careful I'm going to turn into a sweet potato. Sous vide pork chop that was soaked in a light salt and sugar brine and some fresh organic spinach were the sides.

Dexter? Well thank goodness you know the name! 😂 The profile photo is Cousin Eddie from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation -- a classic Christmas movie in these parts. Highly recommended as it captures a large part of American culture...and explains a lot all at once.

"fraction of a cow"? Wimps! Go big or go home. Get a whole cow! 🐄

Thanks Mac.....................................I now own a piece of that artwork (plus the OXO sling)..........................$$$ .....Can't take it with you

Many here use Fogo. The great benefit of coco char is that it imparts no smoke flavor of its own, leaving you a clean profile on which to add smoke wood. Fogo is not “clean” like coco char, but it tends to be a bit less noxious than cheap lumps like Cowboy and Royal Oak.

Courtesy of @buzilo, here is a photograph of a loaded 21 in action

very nice

How do you describe that,, young end grain, center cut, small tree or branch, indigenous to AU, nothing wasted and it has to be dense. Something I'd see at the museum in modern art. An eye catcher. A piece that will make your main course shine, 👍.

Nice looking chopping board Aussie. Looks so nice you almost don’t want to cut on it lol.