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Roasted chicken with butter, olive oil, garlic, salt, black pepper, rosemary, thyme, sage, marjoram & lemon juice with lemon wedges stuffed inside cooked over grilled carrots and served with roasted baby potatoes with olive oil, truffle salt, black pepper, garlic, rosemary & topped with Parmesan cheese

No KK action but next best thing. I did chicken wings on the Yakatori grill last evening. First time this summer.

@C6Bill 350 for 90 minutes with double bottom drip pan on lower grate with a couple of apple wood pieces Ive never grilled the carrots underneath but they were awesome. I put them on after 30 minutes so they were on 60 minutes total and I rotated them after 30 minutes. Amazing carrots. I’ve put them in the drip pan before abs they get pretty soft this way they got chicken juice on them but still retained their crunch

I'm on my second decade with a 23" KK. I often use the 23" ULTIMATE DOUBLE BOTTOM DRIP PAN as a heat deflector. My primary motivation for using a heat deflector is that a ceramic cooker heats from the bottom, and I often want my food exposed uniformly to heat. This happens naturally for low & slow cooks, where the generous insulation of the KK encourages a uniform equilibrium. For hotter cooks, the "heat from the bottom" effect is pronounced in every ceramic cooker, and the KK's build quality can only partially mitigate this. With a perfect understanding of one's fire and perfect control of one's schedule, one can cook at high heats on a KK after the fire has died down, cooking on uniform radiant heat that the KK does a better job of preserving. At this stage, it's much harder to taste the choice of charcoal. It's much easier to use good charcoal and a heat deflector, and to cook as convenient after the cooker temperature stabilizes. I make pizza and Focaccia di Recco on my KK. My neighbor makes pizza in his wood-fired pizza oven. We both screw up sometimes, but his wood-fired fire control is another level of complexity. Of course one can learn, but an honest appraisal beyond bravado would warn others that it takes attention and practice. At its best the wood-fired pizza looks more authentic than any picture I've seen here in decades. No surprise, that's what they do in Napoli. Anyone who thinks they can simulate a restaurant Salamander with their $5,000 home oven's broiler is delusional. One should still learn how to make the best of one's home broiler, or ceramic cooker. We can reliably make pizza we're very happy with, in our KK. The crux issue is getting the KK hot enough without burning the damn crust. There's an easy fix for when this goes wrong: Move the pizza onto a round pizza screen, so it can finish without direct contact with the pizza stone. Some people may have figured out pizza without a heat deflector. Can they explain what they're doing right? Remember that we regularly see posts from people who still struggle to just get their KK to pizza temperature, even as others can't imagine having this issue. Having a gift is useless unless one can understand it and explain it to others. I'm eager to put away my heat deflector for pizza, if someone can clearly teach me what to do.

Great looking chicken !!!! What temp did you cook at ?

Black & Bleu burgers with veggie kabobs. Simple but one of my favorite dinners. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Great looking pizzas Mack! We made tacos again last night. Freshly made tortillas from masa harina, and the chicken in chipotle in adobo sauce turned out great! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here's my latest KK pizzas, did two of them. Bottom crust.