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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..😅

I used Ketjab Manis to make an onion sambal for my fried shrimp chips/crackers. I've only used it in other applications a couple of times. I do like the flavor of it.

Yay! Nothing beats a good bangers and mash meal. Except, maybe, toad-in-the-hole!

yeah, ketjap manis is indonesian. my current and previous helpers all use it. it's basically the #1 seasoning in indonesia. they don't use chinese soy sauce, but use ketjap manis instead. in singapore/malaysia, they have hainese chicken dark sauce, which is even thicker. (bottle on the left) the chinese grocery will also have a version of thick soy sauce, but it's just regular soy sauce with starch thickner. we don't have this because it's usually gross.. edit: i just skimmed through the pitmaster x ketjap video. indonesia has a big influence in the netherlands.. lots of indo culture there.

David, I hear the frustration, just the time to set all the equipment up and troubleshoot is time better spent elsewhere...possibly a Manhattan. I only use the Thermoworks probe, my eyes and intuition with a reasonable understanding of what's in front of me and how much time is on my hands for the cook...as it was in the beginning and forever shall be. I do have a probe that is set to an alarm for meat temp however it's still in the box, $5 yard sale, couldn't pass it up I guess.

Katakuchi Suribachi & Surikogi Set Last night's KK cook was a pair of white arrugula pizzas. Arrugula from our garden, that wasn't going to wait. We like a crisp, almost cracker crust from whole grain, as one approach to pizza. Last night I made a small change to my technique, that I quite liked: Dress the arrugula with the olive oil topping, and spread onto a dry pizza. This was easier than tugging oil across the crust itself (yes, not that challenging, but this was noticeably easier). It seems the crust had more chance to breathe as it baked. I briefly microwaved a few cloves of garlic, and mashed this in my favorite suribachi (I have all three sizes but I regularly gift the middle one as most used) with olive oil, preserved lemon, black pepper and maras pepper. If one leaves out preserved lemon, add salt.

For all my BBQ friends in the UK (and elsewhere), last night was Bangers & Mashed night. Local sausages (Beer and Jalapeno-Cheddar) on the KK. Mashed potatoes, with onion & mushroom gravy. And, of course, mushy peas! All accompanied by this lovely cider from upstate NY that was brought back for me by a buddy in the homebrew club on his recent visit back there. Cheers, Mates!

I think I read @Syzygies say that he had changed his mind and didn't think we needed the heavy mass of the aluminium disc anymore. Hopefully he will chime in and explain. I want to know because it is his fault that I have a heavy aluminium disc cluttering up my bbq cupboard. 😜