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Hi Dennis, I think side to side works best because it is easiest to work with the food when you are working parallel with the grids. If you agree that to be the case then you would have 2 sides of the grill available to work with the food parallel with the direction of the grids--left and right with the front leaving you to work with the food crosswise of the direction the grids are running. If you run the grid front to back then the front is the only side of the grill you can work the food parallel with the grid direction because the lid will block the back side. Side to side is best and provide the most flexibility for working the food under all condtions (like wind blowing smoke in your face). You should leave it like it is. Zorro

Hi Dennis, These 2 new tiles look great to me but my wife would like to see the rest of the available tiles before I place an order for my 2nd cooker. I love my first one and the next one will be an OTB Gen II. How about posting all of the available colors like used to be on your web site! My wife wants a "shiney black" tile with black grout. Zorro

Cracker thin pizza Hi Eisa, Thanks for the quick reply. I will try it right away (weather permitting) . Wish me luck! Zorro

My wife and I had the best pizza on earth in St. Paul de Vence (Provence) France. It was light and crispy like a cracker. I have been trying (unsuccessfully) for years to make pizza crust like that. What I have made is good--but not perfect. Does any one have a recipe for a good cracker like pizza dough? I would sure appreciate you sharing it! I have a wood burning pizza oven but no great recipe to use in it. Thanks Zorro

Hi Dennis, Those are some good looking floors! I just bought a house in Los Angeles (as an investment--Ho Ho) for my daughter to live in.The house was built in 1929 and when the floor finisher ws done he said this was the floors's last sanding. Knowing my daughter, we will probably be wanting about 1,000 SF in a few years! By the way, my hot tub and cooker are finally going to be hoisted over my house in Breckenridge Tuseday morning at 9:00 AM! The cooker has been sitting in the garage all this time waiting for the snow to melt and the Spa manufactuirer to catch up on his deliveries. Here's where it will go. This summer we are going to extent the big gable over the patio so I can cook in all weather. (The cooker & hot tub go in the back.) Zorro

I love leg of lamb. I haven't been able to cook one on my OTB yet but I have had really good luck putting it on at 450 F then dropping the temperature to 350 F. Your Guru should make it real easy to do. The short stretch at 450 F seems to seal in the juices very nicely. I plan to use the EZ-Que and this technique once I get the parts necessary to actually use the EZ-Que. I like to rub garlic, dry mustard, rosemary, and salt & pepper on my lamb. Good luck. Zorro

I am also waiting on the EZ-Que shafts from Dennis. My OTB got to Colorado in perfect shape but I didn't get the gas accessory nor the shafts. I can't use it anyway because I have a foot of ice where I plan to put the cooker but do I hope I hear something soon because they just installed the heat tape and gutters that will keep the ice from building up leave only snow to deal with. It won't take long to get rid of the ice and I'll be ready to start cooking pretty quick. Zorro

Welcome Paul, I am a new member also. I just got my KK OTB Supreme and it is gorgeous! Unfortunately, it is at my Breckenridge Colorado mountain home-9,600 feet and stranded in my garage until I can get some heat tape and gutters on my roof to carry away ice and snow that currently slides off onto my patio. Hopefully next week-then I will get a crane to hoist it over the house. You probably will be cooking before me. Anyway, I love Austrailia- and like all of the Aussies I have ever met. You will like this forum if you don't mind wading through a little friendly BS from time to time. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Zorro (from Kansas)

Thanks to all of you! I'll call Coverworks. I am in Breckenridge, Colorado and we have had a real lot of snow the last few days. I am definietly going to need a good cover. Have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Zorro

I would like to hear from someone who has actually had a cover made for an OTB. (I thought I saw a real neat looking "Burka" cover but I didn't notice any contact information.) I would like to have a cover made by someone who has already done one already so I don't have to reinvent the wheel. I think a zipper in the back might be a good idea to make it easier to put the cover on. If you have the name of someone/company that made an OTB cover for you that you think is outstanding, I would love to get the contact information. Thanks a bunch. Have a merry Christmas! Zorro

Hi, This gadget looks really neat to me. I went to the web site link and noticed that the kit was "out of stock"-hopefully it will get back in stock. I do love putting these kinds of projects together but it has been quite a while since my last one. Two questions/comments--I don't have very good closeup eyesight anymore and I have anvil hands that aren't very steady either. This thing looks pretty small for someone like me. Is that going to be a problem? My second question: Is there any way to consolidate that mass of external wire bundles? That is a pet peeve of mine. I hate wire rat nests! You have bundled them up nicely--but it would be a lot better if there were short leads instead of long wires tied up into big bundles! Zorro

The Kopper Komodo is really neat. What happens if you don't get enough moisture out of the ceramic part before the copper goes on? Can you still go through the slow break in process without a problem? Zorro

Ah, now I see! I still think it might be better if the grate could accomodate a longer slewer so the meat could hang lower in the pit. Anyway, I don't hear a lot of people screaming for a meat hangar so I won't either. Thanks for explaining it for me-I couldn't tell from the picture. Zorro

I see how the bracket works--but the hangar itself looks wierd. It doesn't look like it can hold a very large piece of meat. Do you tie it on to the hangar? Wouldn't it be better if you could put the meat on the hangar so that gravity would hold it on the hangar? How about some sort of upside down fish hook looking deal. And it seems to me that the grate that has the bracket for the meat hangar should have a big open spot so that the upside down fish hook meat hook could actually hang down into the pit rather than at the surface of the grate shown in the photo. (My KK is sitting safely in the crate it was shipped in at my house in the mountains. I will get to unpack it next week and after I actually get to look at one of these rascals in person I will know if any of this makes any sense!) The photos are really helpful. Thanks!

Hi Dennis, I'll buy some too! I still think you ought to open a site with stuff like this and other accessories for sale. Zorro

OK, When do we have a chance to buy these upgrades? Here is another kick-ass design. I WANT IT! Will it fit on the cooker I haven't even got yet? I want one! By the way, if your teak has got that tired look, use a good pressure washer on it to romove the tired look and then use the good finish "new look" product on it. Zorro

Dennis, Please please have a handy place to order stuff and upgrades! When you finally have a finished design on items you show as potential upgrades--make a post that indicates it is available for purchase on your handy place to order "stuff" so we can go there and know we have ordered it! You have great "stuff" but it is hard to know if we have actually ordered it. But do keep up your innovations! It is just tough to be patient. Zorro

Boy, I hope mine comes with that crate. I have had a belly full of those crates that take a day to open!

Congratulations Dennis! Better make it a 10 guage! I'll bet she works you over pretty good. Now you'll have twice as good a workout. It gets better and better and you will love every minute. Zorro

Thanks! Thanks for the info! Zorro

Will the Guru probes go through the predrilled hole for the Polder? The picture of the probes shown on the Guru web site makes one of them look like it is bent and that would prevent it from going all the way into the cooker. Are both probes supposed to go through hole for the the Polder? Thanks! Zorro

Hi, I had to dig for these in an old household inventory insurance file. The photos aren't too great but you can get the idea. It had a rotisserie with a side gas burner from one of the Webber gas grills, offset firebox, lots of air flow adjustments, adjustable legs for leveling it up, bottom ash dump, it would burn wood or charcoal, cook in side firebox or the main box, adjustable grates, and a counterbalanced lid (boy did it need the counterbalance)--and the whole mutha weighed a whopping 700+ pounds. To move it, the front wheel tug had a ball on it that fit into a cup on the BBQ, press down on the tug handle to get the legs elevated and place a strut on the BBQ into a notch on the tug to keep the legs elevated--then pull hard.

Thanks Dennis, I feel so lucky to have literally stumbled onto your web site! I was looking for a bar-b-q for my new house inColorado and was about to spend a lot more on a dual fuel Kalamazoo--fortunately it was so expensive I just couldn't swallow it so I kept looking! I have a lot to learn about cooking this way and can't wait to get started! My wife even likes it because she says it is like a jewel. We just sold my 700# Con-E-Sewer Up In Smoke Behemouth Bar-B-Q because my wife said it was too ugly and it was so heavy that I had to make a light aircraft front wheel tug to roll it around. It got pretty tired looking after several years in the weather. We hardly ever used it because it was such a pain to fire up so we used our Viking gas instead. I personally liked the Con-E-Sewer because I designed it myself and had it built by a guy in our company shop who had been with my company for 30 yrs and had become ineffective. I gave him something to do rather than sending him away. Anyway, I can't for Supreme OTB JRE420. I thought I was going to have to settle for one of your other great (but not my favorite) colors. Zorro PS: These little faces are pretty funky!

I got to have an OTB Supreme Hello Dennis, This is my very first forum entry of any kind. You have done an outstanding job with your forum. I can't believe how much people seem to love your cookers! I am ready to buy one--an OTB Supreme to be delivered to Zip code 80424 (Breckenridge). Would you, your dealer, or sales person please contact me. I want the gas option and want to put the Stoker system on it as well as the 8" EZQ. Looking forward to hearing from you or your representative. Zorro