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Simple Paella here tonight with chicken and chorizo- with the smaller one more basic for the kids. I love cooking paella on the KK, and since we now have an induction stovetop inside isn’t really an option anyway! Originally paella was cooked over a fire, so it feels right. Always like having everything lined up ready to go, then it’s an easy and relaxed dinner to cook.

I as well don’t have a Konro, thinking about getting one when we get back to Vancouver. We’re temporarily located in Toronto living in an apartment so have to wait until we get back home. Just thought I’d ask if still popular as postings are quite old.

I've cooked in the snow too and it makes no difference to the KK cook only difference in how I dress but usually I'd put the KK up to the sliding glass door so no need for putting on a winter jacket.

I’ve run this thing through blizzards before, the temp never flinched 😁 I’m planning on a 14 to 18 hour cook Thursday into Friday. If it does snow again I’ll take pics of it cooking while snow covered

Seems to me C6Bill you gotta build a roof over that bad boy or continue to come to it's rescue. I believe our luck has run out, the last few years have been easy for snow and the near future isn't looking bright. Here's a pic of mine, high and dry under the upper deck, right near the laundry room door and a quick step to reach. You know I reached out to friend down in Georgia and expressed the same sentiment, I told him I use to like snow, not anymore. He responds back, Oh come on, build a snow fort. pelt the little neighborhood kids with snowballs. Have a little fun. I wrote back, and told him....you live in Georgia, every Yankee here knows you can't make snowballs with light powder snow. See what happens when you move to warmer climate, your mind turns to mush.

A long cold winter can sometime lead to, too much fishing along the internet. So after looking around I found something that checked the boxes for me and it was a Pizza cooker, an Ooni Pro Karu 2. The name implies in Finnish as in Ooni meanig oven and Karu...rugged and it's about 17 inches wide at the mouth. It is a small enough stout insulated oven with a glass door, still portable and big enough for a vareity of cooks outside the pizza realm. It takes approx 20 mins to reach temp using lump coal or wood chunk splits and adjustable thereafter.The stove comes with a optional gas burner I don't have, but anticipate buying soon enough. I found it useful, limited only in cooks to your imagination. I thought of David in Hong Kong, the roof dweller limited in space and thought how unique something as this might be requring less space but considered as useful tool for him. I actually was intriqued by this oven because it quickly broils your food for finnish beside pizza, and then has many other applications that might require some thought for inspired cooks. Yesterday seeing Remi's cook on the lower grate pushed me to do the same on this cooker with a old Griswold cast iron skillet...the results were perfect. I used uncooked rice, two sausages and and some Carribean spice, nice. No pics but tonights cook featured Spanish Romesco on fish with charred vegetables over a baked potatoe. It originally called for a toasted sliced long stick bread, however I left that at the store. It's quick, doesn't use a ton of fuel, it uses alternative fuels beside gas...and makes a pizza in 90 sec. It won't replace the KK, it has it's limitations....but unlike the KK you can pack it up for a ride if the need arises. Versatilaty, I like it.

I bought the Ooni Volt 2 for indoor kitchen pizza- Works like a charm, doesn't heat up the kitchen either, I thought it would but I guess because it is so well insulated that it very very slowly looses it's heat.

It sure does. Take a look at my front door-

Nicely done!

Light fluffy snow is good for is making everything look clean and pretty and easy shoveling. Forget the fun things, like snowballs, forts and snowman.