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Meet big blue!

Happily Dennis handles all the insurance, iceberg or not. Sofa from Italy and KKs both due in early December. So if all goes to plan we will have an early Christmas and Santa can sail past our house this year.

Making Laurie some Rogan Josh, for our 15th wedding anniversary.

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Brilliant. I've sent this to my butcher who expressed an alarming amount of enthusiasm. When I was working in London, we were right next to Smithfields Meat Market and Microsoft did a launch for a computer game (think it was Resident Evil). Computer games aren't my bag but they did an awesome approach as a nod to the game. This is what my local butcher did this year. I rather fear having shown him the human body parts above together with the Alien Facehugger video that I may have started something.

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Do you have iceberg insurance? You never know

Hey, you both know how to cook it - just git after it!

Gearing up nicely! You'll be all ready to go when that big crate arrives!

Braai that’s very good. My wife and kids would freak out if I served these up to them. I’m going to start looking locally for a creative butcher. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I agree on the engineering but to be fair to Dennis, I think there are so many motors on the market (a quick search on Amazon) that it must be nigh on impossible to legislate for every single variation. Is this a OneGrill 50lb motor? I think it's one that Dennis actually offers direct so I'd expect that to be a walk in the park. You can fit the tool hanger without actually attaching the wire frame, that extra mounting plate will pack out the side and might solve your problem by creating more depth. When you say it's too long, I'm not sure by how much but I'd suggest adding the tool hanger plate and seeing where that gets you. I don't use it but have the plate on in case I ever change my mind. I'd probably not remember what the hell it was if I came back to it later! You could pack out with washers but that would not be as stable as distributing the load against the steel plate and I imagine the 50lb motor carries a much greater heft. Looking at your last picture, it looks like your plate is offset over the hole. I set mine so that the circumference of the hole was perfectly spaced around the body gear (where the drive shaft enters the wall of the cooker) and everything else aligned neatly and without fuss. Just give it a push to the right as I found mine fitted to the contour of the KK body better when I did so. The trick is to do it before tightening if that's not an obvious thing to say.

Aussie Ora: yes, that makes sense: if you haven't got the walls of the KK fully warmed up, and your temperature reading is reflecting primarily the air temperature, getting the heat level to drop would be less problematic. BTW, binge-watching "Rake", a wonderfully done (albeit it might have gone on a season or two too long) got us through the Coronavirus quarantine period last spring.

That is going to be sooo tasty. Happy anniversary to you both.

Unlucky me, would have liked to get ahead this season. It's shaping up well, with some teams performing way below their talent levels and others surprising us. Not so much "any given Sunday" as "any given team".

I have a 23 but I assume it should be the same for the 32 . I left out a crucial point when I ark up Ora to 400 I have the top and bottom vents fully open .when it gets to 400 its not heat soaked so when I open the lid to take out the grates and add wood and foil it will drop to about 300 I then dial down the top vent and adjust my bottom vents to where I know it will sit at 250 . This is the only time you can dial down the temp when its not heat soaked Sent from my SM-T835 using Tapatalk

Dang it man. I'm jealous. I want an Alien Face Hugger. I'm guessing by the size it's lamb??

Woo Hoo!

Me too!

Optional accessories. 😅

Early prototype is the rumour. He went through a '70's Disco phase. You'd have to have him confirm for sure.

You're probably right but little boys can like disco balls too. 🤭

How I wish that was my dinner tonight.

One step closer!

Just to pile on here. Last night's baby back rib cook. Indirect w/aluminum foil, smoker pot of hickory and apple chunks, average temp 250F (started out around 225F and slowly kept going up to about 275F at the end.) and bone side down. @BARDSLJR consider building the now-famous Syzygies' cast iron Dutch oven smoker pot for your smoking woods. Works great and you get nice clean smoke, as the holes are in the bottom and direct the smoke back into the fire and burn up some of the nasty volatiles. And, the cool part is, when the cooks over, you have made yourself a few chunks of charcoal!

That is very exciting indeed

Gorgeous looking ribs. My experience with my 32" KK is that it is very difficult to get it to reduce temperature once it ramps up. I have had to build up to cooking temp really slowly so not to overshoot it, and then tamp down on the air flow to level it off. I will be using a BBQ Guru for long cooks in the future, so hopefully I will have addressed the control issue. Thank you for clarifying "Ora"- I would have never figured that out. Netflix has made a lot of Australian television accessible, and I can usually figure things out from context: when the guy in "Mr. In-Between"says "we're going out for dimmies", I get he's meaning dim sum dumplings. Some of the language in Peter Temple's excellent mystery books, I just have to guess or Google. (By the way, "Secret City" and "Wanted" were excellent, too. Thank you, my Australian cousins!

No way, Jose...let me check...... AAHHH, when I hit the compose button it stated that my inbox was full and I would have to delete some messages to communicate. Sorry, didn't realize there was limited space. Kinda glad that happened, you may have drawn me into a new bet and the way the Pats have been playing you would have cashed in on me early...saved by a technicality. Glad you two have enjoyed the experience of riding down the Autobahn like Mad dogs and Englishmen/women, there's still time left.

Ora is the name of my 23 KK it derives from the Ora is the name of my KK it derives from the mangarrai dialect meaning land crocodile. Hence Aussie Ora lol . As for your above comments .if you look at my rib cooks you will see this has never been the case. I have one simple method that works for me all the time .ark up Ora to 400f with both grates in .take out grates add smoking wood replace lower grate add foil replace top grate and ribs and dial it down which ever setting will get you to 250 f Sent from my SM-T835 using Tapatalk

If I were independently wealthy, my setup would look something like this.