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Boneless leg of lamb on the rotisserie, Mediterranean salad, dirty rice, pita

Cheeseburgers and corn on the cob

Chicken tacos al pastor last night, with home made corn tortillas. This one’s a firm favourite with the family. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We WON!! Komodo Kamado won the Newsweek Magazine Best Barbecue Smoker Award… Thank you all for your help voting, I can’t begin to tell you how much I appreciate it. https://www.newsweek.com/readerschoice/best-bbq-smoker

Did another bacon KK cook, it tastes just wonderful can't get enough of this. Did a 20+ pound smoke on Fri, half for me and half for friends. Sliced my share today and the house smells wonderful. Here are a few pix, nothing special, except the bacon. The following is bacon from my last smoke and the pix is this morning's Breakfast. st I now have 9 packages just like this one in the freezer, should see me thru until the fall. I had a few bites and piece left that I will use for soups or pizza..

I usually cook paella inside, but when I’ve got some time it is so much nicer on the KK. It was a beautiful autumn evening here, and kids were sorted- so it was the perfect time to cook tonight’s paella on the KK with some post oak for smoke. Originally paella was cooked on a pan over fire, so it feels right. Simple one tonight with chorizo, chicken, Roma tomatoes and green beans/ flavoured with saffron, paprika, stock and rosemary from our garden. Spicy pimenton in the adult one. I also love cooking the whole thing outside as you set up your ‘mise en place’ and then just relax. I’m smokey as all hell though, so need a shower. Nevertheless it was so so good- worth the extra effort.

Smoked whole chicken on the meat hanger is a GOOD thing. About 2.5 hours at 250F/120C in the end. Start drooling now...

The weather here has been miserable for more than 2 weeks, no sun, just rain, wind and cold. I don't care I'm lighting my KK anyway.

I am still amazed by how little fuel a KK uses to do its job. This is my 16KK fire basket after 12 hours of cooking low and slow. A 3kg lump of pig. The capocollo - pig neck and shoulder. Closest US cut is a pork butt.

Just got back from Thailand with the family for a week. Thanks, Dave, for the head's up. All three of you gentlemen are now moderators. Simply click on the member's name/icon. Then click spam, and the post will be deleted, and the user will be banned. If any other old-school members would like moderator powers, I'll be thrilled to give you those powers! Thanks VERY BIG for your help..

Challenger pan has arrived. Am very happy with the results.

Time for a bit of a ‘mixed grill’ tonight. Corn, yellow squash, small red capsicums, large mushrooms, country suasage links, smash burgers, chicken satay skewers, lamb kofta skewers and a couple of scotch fillet steaks. Nice mix for us and the kids- ended up using most the the 32BB lower grate real estate. Great success as always…

Last night was a new experiment - a mash-up of Japanese & Nigerian. Mixed Yakiniku with Suya Pepper rub to marinate beef skewers. I liked how it came out. Will file this one away for future reference. The corn is not local. Won't see the "good stuff" for at least another month or so. This corn was OK.

New first for me on the KK - handmade Bagels! Finally got to use the stone most use for baking Pizza. Bagels went on at 425F for 23 minutes on top grate. With the stone in it took some time to get to temp. Likely due to all the hardware and stone. They did come out very good 👍 will definitely do it again.

Just cooking a few steaks… Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

In Italy at the moment. Baby artichoke risotto for lunch was delicious.

So I gotta griddle - a Halo 4b converted to natural gas using their conversion kit. This is a really different type of cooking for me and I'm enjoying it a lot. Still learning and doing small cooks - it's good training in case I need to get a job at the Waffle House.

One of my favourite meals to cook on the KK is paella. Especially since moving to our new house, which has an induction cooktop. Steel paella pans are never perfectly flat, so induction cooking is a pain. And then there is the mess. Cooking a paella outdoors, over fire, is one of life’s great pleasures. And that’s all traditional paella was- a rice dish cooked over fire in a pan. Having spent some time in Valencia, I’m well versed in traditional paella- and often make a traditional inspired dish with chicken, green beans and sliced Roma tomatoes. At other times- I go maximalist. Tonight, with my parents visiting from interstate, was maximalist. Chorizo, chicken thighs, baby calamari, prawns and mussels with Roma tomato, saffron, spicy smoked and sweet pimenton, fresh rosemary from the garden and green beans on top. My friends always complain that I say that each iteration of a dish was the best ever. They have a point. Nevertheless this was the best paella ever- smoky, spicy, redolent of the aromas of fresh seafood and herbs, the bitter crunch of the soccsrat from the bottom of the pan. Sharpened up with a healthy squeeze of fresh lemon over the top. Heaven.

Brown sugar & maple syrup glazed bone in pork chop with duck fat and truffle salt air fryer potatoes and roasted carrots

Prepping for Super Bowl tonight. We are in Italy and our friend is going to open his bar so we can watch the game from 00:30 tonight. I will be introducing the Italians to Franks Hot sauce and blue cheese dressing. Not brave enough to try to get my KK 16 down in the lift and down the road to the bar and so we will be using their professional oven. Here is what 5kg of wings, neatly prepared by our local butcher, look like. Dry marinade applied, now waiting in the fridge. Fly Eagles Fly!

This must be the year for Christmas Rib Roast. Smoked (apple & cherry) a smaller (4 pound trimmed) boneless rib roast this year at 200°F, then seared for 7 minutes total at 450°F. Covered and held until it reached 128°F. Served with farm-style green beans, three cheese potatoes, and a 2008 Spottswoode Cabernet.

Merry Christmas. Santa delivered two primes, a 9.5 and 8.5lb so both were cooked on the 23 KK. The first on the 24th without a sear but cooked at a variable temp, the second with a sear on the 25th. Both tasty, and were festive meals for all, each a bit different but easy work when finished on a KK.

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It had been awhile since i did beef ribs, but i was going to my sisters for diner I figured it was time for some. And a little steak just to be sure we had enough food lol

38" Goldilocks Unveiled.. The 38” Goldilocks is the newest member of the KK family. We took our 42” Serious Big Bad grill, sawed it in half, and pulled 4” from the middle. It is a reduced size 42". It has the same double two-spring hinges, the basket splitter is standard, and a stainless lip protector. Its inside dimensions are 38” wide and 22” deep. It comes standard with three levels of 3/8” 304 stainless grates that can cook on four levels. The main and lower grate have rods front to rear and come in three pieces. It also comes standard with a charcoal basket splitter reducer that lets you cook on a reduced volume of charcoal. This creates a two-zone cooking environment. The grill weighs 1,560 lbs—(74 lbs less than the 42") and rolls easily on five high-density black rubber castors, four in the legs and one under the body, to distribute the weight evenly. It has 208 lbs of 304 Stainless.. Standard tiles $ 8,240 Bronze and Pebble tiles $ 8,480

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

A nice weekend to make some chicken 😁

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

wife and I just returned from Paris where we had some incredible meals. A 1 star, a 2 star & two 3 star Michelin restaurants in a week Lots of seafood, some duck, pigeon but I had a hankering for a cut of steak all week so tonight I made Tri-tip, air fyed potatoes in duck fat with truffle salt & asparagus

A little salmon. A little zucchini. Got to love all the cooking area on the SBB42. It always comes in handy.

came out great on the KK ! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You will have to trust me on this one, it did taste goooood. I used 2 lbs of Bison very lean ground meat and made 1 meatloaf and with the leftovers made to large meatballs.

happy sunday folks..

3-day salt brine got "very" deep into the roast, then hit with black pepper, garlic, thyme and rosemary overnight. Smoke time was roughly 4.5 hours at 225 degrees (6lbs) over hickory (buried) and cherry and then seared, came out wonderful!😊

Sunday dinner. Pickled schrimp as a starter, main course Sirloin steak, home fries, broccoli, spaghetti squash, garden fresh tomatoes in a light greek, with peach, blackberry cobbler for dessert cooked with coals in the Lodge dutch oven.

I'm very pleased about this nice write-up about Komodo Kamado and me in USA Today... Click here for the USA Today article

I had one of the early generation 19" and 23", when I moved to NYC the 23" came with me (probably should have been the 19", but c'est la vie!). Now we've got a place in San Diego and rather than trying to ship the 23" there, we decided it was time for an upgrade. This thing is built like a tank! And I mean the crate, the KK itself is more like a beautiful bomb shelter. I love the little details you've added over the past 15 years and the fact that 750lbs of stuff can be uncrated and moved to position by myself is phenomenal attention to detail. More pics to come, I'm sure, but I was so excited I forgot to install the thermometer before snapping this one!

Fired up a couple of BMS 7 Wagyu Beef Ribs: 6 hour smoke at 250 with 1/2 basket of CoCo Char using Hickory & KK Coffee Wood for smoke...What shocked me most was once it was fully heat soaked, I actually ended up just using smallest intake hole "only" and top vent just barely open to maintain 250 degree temp and it did "not" budge the entire cook and nearly all the CoCo Char is still in there and some pieces hadn't even needed to light😲-if this thing were any more efficient it would likely become self-sustaining like a nuclear pile, lol. These were easily the best, juiciest and most flavorful beef ribs I've EVER made-and I've made A LOT-everyone freaked at the difference over my KJ and Egg, this thing is next level LEGIT!!!

My new beastie, Ultimate 23 in Terra Blue.☺

finished a 2-day baking class today. i think i need a spiral mixer. pan de cristal at 130% hydration

Last evening I decided to do individual meatloaves, wild rice and freshly picked spinach for dinner. Got the KK fired up- Meatloaf on the KK. Done, I know the pix is not the best but... Plated. The wild rice was very fine, about the size of the lead in a pencil. It's amazing what it turns into.

Took my goths to Safari Park this weekend. Stopped by the far stand on the way home. Got some amazing fruit and produce rainbow carrots, asparagus and sweet white corn on the cob along with pork tenderloin My oldest told me that the asparagus “popped” in her mouth it was so fresh. Great summer meal

Beautiful weekend here (upper 80s). I put up the cover on the gazebo. Calls for the 1st outdoor dinner of the season! Grilled a nice fat porkchop (on sale $1.99/lb!), with zucchini, and au gratin potatoes. Nice Pinot Noir to round it all out!

It’s been a busy month or so with visitors- and we have my father in law staying for a few days this time. For tonight, it was a tandoori marinated lamb leg, cooked indirect at 400F until medium rare. Served with lemon wedges, coriander, habenaro mango hot sauce, fragrant raita, salad, rice and roti. Everyone happy as per usual with a KK dinner!

It was time for more pork roast and chicken breasts 😁

My wife’s overseas this week, so to make the last few days a bit easier meals wise I thought I should bbq on the weekend. The kids requested pulled pork… done.

made another pizza today with some nice cornicione action. spicy salciccia is so much better than pepperoni..