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i just sold it along with a bunch of probes and the guru fan. honestly, i hate cooking with all this stuff. all the wires, the cables, keeping it away from rain, using the app. keeping it powered... i don't use it anymore. i don't overnight cook anything, i don't walk away from my cooks. i can run the kk with my eyes closed. so yea, i'm happy to close this chapter of my life. haha..😅

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@tony b @tekobo got my Huacatay plant a few weeks ago going to be attending the real Peruvian green sauce tonight……stay tuned

I try to keep the ash levels down in the firebox for this reason - uneven airflow. I typically clean it out before every longer cook (4+ hours). I think this is the key to more even burns in the basket. YMMV

The crumb. Very soft and incredibly flavorful. Not sour at all. Definitely more Desem in my future.

@Dennis I have experienced the burn on the next side of my charcoal basket even though I lit in in the middle. Happens a lot actually. I do a lot of slow and low cooks and quite often when I see my charcoal basket the left side burns much more than the right live chalked this up to usually bring my fault as when I’m not doing low and slow cooks I primarily use the hallf grate and have a pile of lump on the right that burns and I cook indirect and maybe do a reverse sear on the second grade close to the fire if iI’m grilling a steak or something because I cook this way most often I get a very uneven ash buildup on the bottom, lots of ask on the right side not a lot on the left. So when I go to do a low and slow cook unless I rehabbed to clear the ash prior to filling the basket with lump, I’m setting up a situation where there’s more since for air on the left side than right, this results in the uneven distribution of the burn it’s usually not a big deal and I actually use it to my advantage when I cook a brisket and I’ll put the point on the left side of my grill and let it go but also to add biz long when I’m doing low and slow I’m usually using the double drop pan in between the coals and top grate so it doesn’t really matter much that’s my long way of saying clean out the ash start fresh and see when I do rotisserie is where I really want an even burn so gif that I bought Dennis new rotisserie basket and I light on each end of the lump and watch it burn towards the middle

My first loaf of Desem. 100% freshly milled Red Fife. I loosely followed the formula for “Daily Desem” in Tara Jensen’s Flour Power book. Biggest change is hydration. Her formula is about 75% total hydration, but I found that to be almost unworkably low, so kept going until I liked the feel of the dough. I estimate I ended up around 82-85% hydration. The other major change was to sift and scald the bran, which I find helps soften the bran and encourage better gluten formation in freshly-milled loaves. Still cooling. Maybe a crumb shot later.

Not pretty but super delicious. Roadkill chook alla @Aussie Ora with extra added suya spice.