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Depending on what you're burning (the KKEC stays alive for quite some time without O2) the temp probe port may be the culprit and I used aluminum foil to plug mine up. Another thing to check is that the lid is fully closed, there's two levels of latching and someone I know (who happens to have the same initials as I do, and I think he lives nearby...) sometimes forgets to fully latch the lid causing a decent amount of airflow. Beyond that your smoke idea is a good way to find it. It works even better with a power draft control (Guru/Stoker).

My one-man method of moving starts with a step of buying a set of pallet forks for your tractor Luckily i did end up using some moving blankets wrapped around the forks, even if I set them wide enough not to need to use them. Sorry about your "incident"

I'd figure on about 500lbs. ~100 for the top, ~300 for the base, and another ~100 for the accessories, fire ring, damper top, etc. Obviously I'd unload it before moving it by hand, and if you don't have enough people I'd also take off the dome top.

Anyone know where I can find a thermodynamics research grant? I've got access to an environmental chamber used for compliance testing and I'm sure I can load a KK up with a few hundred thermal probes to do some testing. KKEC would be great for this since it's much more uniform than standard lump

Cultural food differences are often (quite literally) hard to swallow. In Asia a McDonald's chicken sandwich is made from dark meat instead of a breast because that's more flavorful to the local audience (I found that out the hard way in Korea!). In Taiwan I went to Lawry's Prime Rib and they were concerned because I didn't eat the best part - the huge chunk of fat around the outside. In some places a properly textured lump of pure fat is the ultimate indulgence - here we just call properly textured fat "cheesecake"

Wasabi balls, they're pretty good with steak

And if you are using a Guru/Stoker I've noticed the reverse effect, in cold weather the blower has to work harder since it's blowing cold air into the chamber (I should try comparing the 10CFM with the 5CFM sometime to see if the 5CFM is actually more efficient). Of course this is pretty transparent to you since the temperature remains the same, but interesting nonetheless. I'm also not sure that what I call "cold" exists in Texas outside of superconductor research facilities.

Good work! Raytheon is a big employer up in my neck of the woods and most of the people I've talked to are pretty happy working for them. Here's to a new career!

I'm not sure I'd go for the 25CFM fan. On my Stoker a 5CFM works fine and my 10CFM can be a little iffy on the controls when I do low temps with lump (a big burst of air can light more lump than you'd like). I'd go with a 10CFM on the Guru since they've apparently got a damper that can reduce the airflow.

Sorry, the connector end is also a 90 degree 2.5mm jack which doesn't fit

I bent my Maverick probes straight without any ill effect (actually they're not straight but they're straight enough to fit through the hole). Just use a gentle but firm pressure. If you happen to break one you can just buy a new probe without needing to replace the entire system. Never fear, the Stoker probes are straight out of the box and work much better.

Congrats! I can't wait to see it in its natural habitat - or even on a sunny day with those reflective tiles. You could have it suspended so it looks like a disco ball as it twists in the breeze! After an hour or so you've probably heat soaked the KK. When you first light it a lot of the fire's energy goes into bringing the mass of the KK up to temperature. After it reaches an equilibrium more of the energy from the fire goes into heating the air than the cooker so you'll need to reduce the airflow a bit to maintain temperature. With the Stoker this all happens automatically, of course. If you've got the Stoker I'd also highly recommend StokerLog which puts a nice user interface on the Stoker. Controlling it via the Internet is a nice feature, but you may need to set up port forwarding on your home router, feel free to ask about getting it up and running if you have any issues.

Not a single recipe, but I felt sorry for this poor little section. Here's a website that offers recipes from Alligator to Woodcock (sorry, no Xerus, Yak or Zebra). If you need to figure out what to do with that moose or how to cook the emu that wandered in front of your car, check this out: http://www.justgamerecipes.com/inxmkr.html

I like how they go pretty flush to the lip of the cooker, makes things easy to move from the tables to the grill. Congrats!

If you're in the mood for an adventure, try some canned tuna and onions on your pizza - I had it in Switzerland and it's actually a lot more tasty than it sounds!

After suffering though many porkchops from people who think it needs to be made into the texture of shoe leather to avoid sudden death I think I may be inspired to try some on the KK, juicy and ever so slightly pink in the center looks fantastic!

All this pizza talk is getting me hungry, that looks great!

Poor man's prime rib Meat: ~3lb round roast Brine: None Rub: Balsamic and Olive Oil and with Dizzy's Cow Lick Fuel: KKEC Smoke: None Method: Indirect, Main Grill Rotisserie: No Pit Temp: 250 Pull Temp: 130 Time: About 2 hours Draft Control: Stoker I almost forgot to show off about a round roast I picked up and ate a few weeks ago. Rubbed in olive oil and balsamic with Dizzy's Cow Lick before I tossed it on the grill. Despite continually putting the meat on too soon (should have dropped the temp to 225 to be more on time, methinks) the results were great, it was more like a prime rib than a round roast. Rather than letting it dwell like I did for my earlier prime rib I pulled the roast and wrapped it in foil for half an hour before the wife came home and I sliced it. Tasted great with a little horseradish sauce on the side but the Cow Lick was a bit superfluous in my opinion, next time I'll do without.

FYI, what may be the final release of StokerLog R5.0 was announced here. You can click here to download the image file directly.

Good for you! I'm sure you'll be happy with your new toy. Another great way to pass the time is to research your wife's plants to see which ones can be used as smoke wood.

Something I haven't quite been able to figure out about the CyberQ is what type of USB support it will have. A lot of people (myself included) have assumed it will be like a newer version of the Stoker and act like a small embedded computer with a robust set of drivers and an IP stack - effectively acting like a USB master device. This would probably mean that it should have a "Type A" USB connector on it and a special USB A-A crossover connector of sorts to talk to a laptop: If it has the Type B connector it's more likely that a lot of USB dreams will be squashed and all it can do is create something like a virtual serial port on a laptop. This would make it more of a dumb slave device and mean that you'd need an attached computer to do a lot of the interesting stuff but with new laptops available for a few hundred dollars that can have a recipe program and all sorts of other features this isn't necessarily a show-stopper. Of course, a connector is just a hardware design choice and it's possible to have either type of implementation with either connector type. Either way I'm curious to see what the specs are one it's released.

I think the biggest con is being subjected to pictures of some of our members... The only reason a thread or section like that doesn't exist is because it hasn't come up before, pictures including actual people are a bit few and far between on this forum but I've always hated getting my picture taken so I'm fine with it Feel free to post some pictures of yourself with your cooker (as long as there's a KK in it it'll fit right in under Komodo Photos) and if there's enough interest we can pull them out into a dedicated section.

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