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We had Thanksgiving early, so i cooked up a small Butterball, the skin rendered out nicely if i do say so myself 🤣 And bread of course, one extra tangy sourdough and one cranberry cinnamon honey sourdough. I also made a caraway seed rye not pictured. And Cranberry walnut loaf.

Beef plate ribs from Costco, coffee cardamom rub.. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We spent a week away with @RokDok, Mrs RokDok and a bunch of other friends to celebrate my husband's sixtieth birthday. Here is the great steak spread that @RokDok conjured up on his trusty Weber kettle (not being able to transport his 32 KK to a cliff top in Cornwall). We also upped our paella game, with the addition of a great big gas burner. Yum!

I very much agree with @5698k on this. No offense intended to anyone, but I've been smoking baby back and St. Louis-style ribs on various devices for 40 years and have yet to wrap them (except to keep them warm after the cook). I'm sure the 3-2-1 and 2-2-1 methods work for folks, and indeed may work well, but I've never felt the need to use them. YMMV. 🙂

One came off the grill having rubbed it up with Watkins Mesquite rub and a slight char for optics. To tell you the truth after having choice many more times than Prime I find no greater difference other than the prime was much moister. Taste was on par but not significantly so that it was measurably better than choice, it could have been just this particlar piece but I've had so many other choice pieces that were very good that I see no reason to abandon the standard. I didn't prepare it or cook it any differently, however I noticed as you might in a prime brisket is that the meat can be more forgiving because it holds moisture better. You can achieve the same results with choice, you just have a shorter window. So I find it juicier but not any tastier, and with this in mind at least for this grade of meat as a Tri tip I'll have no worries holding pat with choice.

Hi everyone, After drooling over the KK's for more 10 years my wife has bought me a 32BB for my 50th birthday. The delivery process to Sydney was pretty straight forward and unpacking a breeze thanks to all the information online. After cooking 6 out of the last 7 meals since I unpacked it last week I am amazed how awesome the KK is. My wife is loving it because I always want to cook. So far I have cooked Sausage and onions (first cook to thank those who helped lift it up the stairs), chicken and veg, pulled pork (I have still to master temp control), beef fajitas, Steak with baked potatos and honey carrots, pizzas last night (need to fill the basket next time). I need to track down a rotisserie motor that fits the bracket and then I'll be doing some charcoal chicken. A big thank you to everyone on this forum, reading about all your cooks has made the move to KK better than I could have hoped.

Finally mobile enough after breaking my leg to venture into the backyard… have spent the last 3 days tidying the front yard and backyard. Our house no longer looks abandoned! Unsurprisingly am completely shattered with exhaustion- but did manage to fire up the KK for a nice mixed grill tonight… corn, vege basket with potato, sweet potato, broccoli and asparagus, beef sausages, chicken satay skewers, marinated lamb ‘lollipops’ and a couple of eye fillet steaks. A big hit with the family after a long hiatus!

I First steaks on the 32”, prime ribeyes, SPG, seared at 700. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

He's a good boy, he knows to stay away from my food lol

Turned out great it pulled apart nicely Sent from my SM-T835 using Tapatalk

A nice weekend to make some chicken 😁

The other day I decided to clean out the meat freezer. These boneless beef ribs were lurking in the bottom. They were old, from 2016. Can't believe I cooked them. They were a little dry but the little fat that was in them had not turned which surprised me. I actually rather enjoyed rescuing them. I'm on a mission.

We don't eat hunks of meat as often as we used to; our KK sees most use for chicken, pizza, Focaccia di Recco, bread. I do quick grilling (salsa veggies, taco meat) over a Solo Stove fire pit, the air fryer of the gods. We nevertheless use lots of meat-as-ingredient, and what meat isn't better with smoke? Then there's the Maillard reaction, very special in a KK. Thinning the herd in the chest freezer... The pork butt will become carnitas or tamales filling, the ribs will become a pasta sauce from Rosetta Costantino's My Calabria (we just got back from her food tour), and the brisket will become braised beef for Dan Dan noodles from Robert Delf's The Good Food of Szechuan.

a little roast chicken on the duck hanger. i can't cook big food on this accessory. not enough clearance. .

Tri tip cooked like a brisket, coffee cardamom rub. Cooked to 203, no wrap, rested about an hour. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Sunday dinner consisting of 1/2 split turkey with two cod wrapped medley seafood stuffed pieces, fresh butternut squash, mashed potatoe, asparagus, stuffing, gravy and cranberry sauce. Two wines, a German reisling and a Georgian red. A beautiful New England day, one possibly the last for sitting out to enjoy as fall takes hold of the temperature..

ribs today on a lovely Fall day…. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

who doesn't love duck fat