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I am a new winter resident of Fountain Hills, Arizona. I reside in Centralia, IL for much of the year and plan on bouncing back and forth. I have been avid on the grill and smoker for over 15 years and have quite a few different smokers, grills, flat tops, pizza ovens and various other cooking toys. Most of my cooking in Centralia is on a MAK grill which is a pellet grill/smoker. I cook a lot, over a thousand pounds of meat annually as I regularly cook for charities and fundraisers. I regularly follow Amazing Ribs and the Pit Master Forum reading more than posting. I have read about Komodo Kamado’s on AR and decided that Arizona was the opportunity to jump into the Ceramic Cooker and jump into the best of the best. I researched on this forum for quite awhile prior to ordering my BB32 and have learned a lot but have a lot more to learn. I purchased the BB32 based on research here that it gives much more grilling space. I am going to attempt to make the BB32 my grill, smoker, pizza oven, flat top and plan to learn to make bread on it. The original intent was to put it in our backyard which has several levels and only the lowest level has the room. The backyard is about to be demoed and redone. I mentioned keeping in the front of the house temporarily and surprisingly our interior designer is encouraging me to put it in between our casita and house in a small courtyard. This might be as she had volunteered her team to get it around back and realized a crane might be the only way to get it there. We were all thinking of some type of art or water feature in the courtyard and as a testament to its beautify she is recommending the courtyard. It is much closer to the kitchen and on the same level would be advantageous. I read how hard it is to get the CoCo Charcoal so I ordered a pallet. Feel free to reach out to me if you are in the Phoenix area and if your in need I’ll hook you up at my cost. Otherwise I have lifetime supply!

Mongolian beef, actually skirt steak cut against the grain in an assortment of veggies with a nice sauce, served over Jasmine rice. The appetizer was coconut shrimp on a bed of lettuce and pineapple served with a sweet chili sauce.

Jeff & Roger, On Saturday, I emailed a long-time friend who lives in Hilo. His family has lived there for well over 100 years. One of his kids owns and operates two [?] Japanese restaurants. This is an extract of his reply to my email ... "Most common wood used for huli huli chicken is Kiawe which is well known in Texas, Arizona, and south-western US and Mexico as mesquite! It’s a very dense wood that burns very hot and is also used for in making bar-b-que charcoal. If it was on Oahu, it was probably kiawe. As far as the aroma, it is a common practice to strategically channel some of the rendered drippings to some charcoal to create palu (chum) to trigger salivary glands! You can use mesquite charcoal, but the kiawe wood just seems to give that extra spike of Onolicious!" Mystery solved! Thanks for your comments. djami

Welcome to the Obsession! Can't wait to see it in its final resting place, especially if you make it the centerpiece of your courtyard with a water feature for accent. Will be stunning!

Very nice! Welcome to the community. Good luck with finding a perfect resting spot. Once you do, you will enjoy using it. I have had my BB32 for about 8 months now. Absolutely love it. We cook on it numerous times a week. Regardless of weather.

This is more than you want to know about huli huli chicken. My favorite chicken in the entire world is huli huli chicken; often pronounced as hui hui chicken in Hawaii. It is very simple to make but too many people put way more spices and junk on it and destroy the taste of real hui hui chicken. Cook books and internet recipes provide a long list of ingredients such as brown sugar, pineapple juice, soy sauce, mustard, etc., etc. Some recipes call for soaking chicken in a marinade overnight. That is all good and I have no problems with those recipes. But in my mind’s eye, that chicken is not hui hui. True hui hui chicken must be flipped over in wire racks or prepared on a rotisserie over coals, and not baked in an 8x12 glass dish in an oven. I can not comment on the "true" nature of the marinades, rubs, or spices, but I believe they should be kept to a minimum to bring out the essence of the juice distribution from the flipping or rotisserie effect. Real hui hui chicken is very simple. We lived in Honolulu for many years and often drove on Nimitz Highway to Waikiki on Saturday mornings. As we drove on Nimitz, we always passed a huge hui hui chicken operation. We could see the smoke and smell the BBQ chicken blocks away. From Nimitz, we could see people mopping the chickens with sauce and turning the chickens which were sandwiched between wire mesh resting on top of, as I recall, long cinder block fire pits. We learned later they mopped a certain teriyaki sauce on the chickens. That place perhaps gets credit for being the original huli huli operation. However, hui hui chicken has been prepared by other Hawaiians somewhat differently. On Kauai, the best [my opinion] hui hui chicken is prepared using a certain Hawaiian wood to BBQ with. I do not recall the type of Hawaiian wood, nor can I find mention of it on the internet. But it is uniquely hui hui because it is fixed the traditional way of flipping the chicken in wire mesh over hot coals. Some folks use rotisseries. I doubt this technique is unique to Hawaii … but the special Kauai wood certainly is. On my KK32, I prefer spit roasting chicken on a rotisserie with just light salt and pepper. Even without the special BBQ wood, this chicken is absolutely the best! It is amazingly moist and tender. The key thing is when the birds turn on the rotisserie, they baste in their own juices ... and some of the juices drip on the coals. Those drippings cause some smoke which also helps add taste to the chicken. Al la hui hui rotisserie chicken. I am bragging in this video! Not only am I rotisserie roasting at 350*, I am showing off my Jackery solar generator which I use to power the rotisserie motor since I do not have electricity to my lanai area. Of course, I am enjoying Peter White doing “Groovin.” Listened to tunes on Spotify for about two hours as the rotisserie chicken roasted. Sorry to get carried away with the huli huli chicken stuff. But what comes first - - the chicken or the egg ... KK! djami in northern Virginia HuiHui chicken October2022.MOV

Gorgeous steak everyone! Making me crazy hungry right now!

Done some beef ribs love my ribs Sent from my SM-T835 using Tapatalk

Pork tenderloin marinated in Peruvian salt, rosemary & aji panca. Reverse seared in cast iron pan with butter and rosemary asparagus finished in cast iron pan with pork juices, butter and rosemary yellow potatoes tossed in duck fat with garlic, rosemary, lemon thyme and truffle salt