CeramicChef

Thanks, Dennis! I always learn something from you.

As for the cajones - ex-wife #2 got those in the divorce and you won't believe the price to get 'em back! As for the belt, you're right! New wardrobe as well! I can see my feet just fine - they are propped up on the corner of my desk! LOL!!

+1^^! +1^! Well said!

I like 'em all, tony! Bronzo .... catchy!

SWMBOI will NEVER have a log in here or at the other place! Are you kidding me? My nuts are in the fire enough as it is!

Frogs - First off, great meatballs! I love the color of your finished cook. Really beautiful! Second, I just noticed your KK kind of has that TCU purple hue to a lot of the tiles. How much extra was that mod? LOL!!!!! My Sooners are gonna make you guys pay for last year's whipping! We're coming after you ... if we can find a quarterback!!

tony - ya know its all I can do to keep SWMBOI from reading over my shoulder here. She wonders about these pales of laughter that come rolling our of my home office. She keeps asking me if I'm okay! Okay you fat rat bastards! Let's do the math. SWMBOI is a petite lady, about 120 lbs. Tony, you tell her I told you her weight and I will HUNT. YOU. DOWN. Now if she's about a third of the total package, that makes me 240, which I am. And YES!, SWMBO and a LOT of others will tell you I am a VERY BIG PRICK and I DO have a set of Cajones. And I have references! Sometimes I am almost intelligent enough to know when to keep my mouth semi-partially shut! It doesn't happen often, but occasionally ... LOL!!! I may be stooopud but I'm not dumb! I know who butters my buns! Gotta hurry up and post this so SWMBOI doesn't read this!

Unfortunately, it does, dammit all anyway! Try as I might, my cooking keeps my waistline right where it is ... about 3 " longer than ... my feet sticking out! LOL!!

Thanks, tiny! I'll pass along the kudos to Beauty! She did all the work!

Tiny - Buddy, it is so very good to have you in the Club! Welcome aboard! You are in for an experience that will exceed your wildest dreams! You know, I've "met" the best folks here! KKers are the most amazing folks I've met starting with Dennis, then Rob (5698k), Wilbur, that nut in Cedar Rapids aka tonyb, and the list goes on. WE've a fair number joining us here from other kamado forum due to the posts by certain members there. From Dennis on down, it is my pleasure to be associated with each and every one of you great people. Tiny ... its great to know you!

Tiny - as you know, I have two KKs! My KK BB 32" is known as TheBeast. His 19" Hi-Cap is know as Beauty! Hence, Beauty! and TheBeast! Congrats on joining the club! You are about to embark on a real adventure! CONGRATS!

Oh, BTW, Tony - thanks for the kudos. I'll pass those along to Beauty!

tony - I, like you, am one cheap bastard! That said, the only way to help these rubs is to start from scratch! Once on the meat they added nothing, and I mean NOTHING to the cook. I tried a couple of bites from the Honey Garlic steaks and there was nothing there but steak. I ate a Coffee Rub steak and it too had no flavor profile. None. I knocked on my neighbor's door just before I sat down here and gave him those rubs. He cooks on a gasser so he's not all that bright and he dadgummed certainly has an ignorant palate. He actually thanked me! Poor schmuck! He'll love 'em so they won't go to waste. My folks also were children of the depression and NOTHING went to waste. My dear Mother knew more ways to stretch a cook than you could have ever imagined. Thanksgiving was all about the turkey, then the leftovers, then the hot turkey sandwiches, then she would boil the carcass and make soup. A turkey could get 10-12 meals out of it before she tossed the dry brittle bones!

Nicely done! Ckreef - your cooks on that coconut charcoal amazed me. I knew it lasted a long time, but wow, you got every BTU out of that box and produced some mouth watering cooks in the process. Kudos and congrats BIG time to you!

Second Tuesday of next week! LOL! And SWMBOI isn't my better half, it's more like my better third!

Thanks, ckreef! Those steaks were on deal at Sam's. They were, in spite of the rub failure, tender, juicy, and delicious!

I did NY Strips as the first cook on my new 19" Hi-Cap, Beauty! it was a sumptuous repast!

Beauty! and TheBeast done quite well together on the patio! I just did the first cook, NY Strips, on Beauty! and she more than lived up to her KK Heritage!

KKers! FIRST COOK FOR BEAUTY! Well, I finally found time to do the First Cook on Beauty! and she handled it with absolute grace and aplomb. No big deal. She took to high temp sears like a duck to water. So here's Beauty! standing at the ready. She's at about 450F and is standing at the ready for a potato roast. I'm doing 2 Bite Potatoes along with a nice green salad as sides to accompany the entree of NY Strips. So here are the small golden potatoes that just hit the 450F grill for about 30 minutes. I was at Sam's yesterday and stumbled across a couple of Weber Rubs featured in a center aisle display. Now as mist of you know I am quite reluctant to buy remade rubs, but these got my interest. I LOVE powdered honey and a good coffee rub is hard to beat in my opinion. So for about $6 each, I figured how wrong can you go, right? We'll be seasoning our NY Strips with these this evening. Now as many of you know, I continually stress the importance of being well hydrated during a cook, so to that end ... Here are the Guests of Honor ... 4 NY Strips! Two are rubbed with the Coffee Rub (in the back) and the two in the foreground are rubbed with the Honey Rub. As usual Pete The Salt Pig and his Minions approvingly look on. Here is a pic of the NY Strips right after they hit the main grill in Beauty! After the first flip ... And here is the only plated pic I got before everyone dug in with knife and fork! What you can't tell from the picture was that the NY Strips were a perfect medium rare, the 2 bite potatoes were done to absolute perfection and the salad was wonderful with a walnut-raspberry dressing. Finally, here is the end result of a wonderful and sumptuous repast! Beauty! did yeoman service her first time out of the gate! All in all our guests thought it was one of the best steaks they had had in the last 35 years I've known them. The Weber rubs were a bit of a disappointment when all is said and done. The Honey Garlic Rub needed more of a honey profile and the Coffee Rub was, to my tastes entirely lacking the coffee taste that I have come to expect from my coffee rub. While my guests liked their steaks, I would not buy these rubs again. I'll use them as quickly as I can to get them out of my cupboard or more than likely, I'll give them away. Hope you enjoyed this cook as much as I did. Beauty! is just that ... simply a Beauty!

Shack - I know this will sound like apostasy, but I'm not a big fan of Indian Cuisine.

Shack - I absolutely LOVE TheBeast! I have previously owned a couple of BGEs and Primo XLs. But TheBeast is, by orders of magnitude, so far beyond those cookers it isn't even funny! Shack, cooking on a KK is a whole new experience, but TheBeast is beyond anything I have experienced. The sheer mass and size of TheBeast is beyond belief ... people who see it in person just stand back and shake their heads. Temperature control on TheBeast is so simple. Once you know the response curve, dialing in temps is as easy as hitting a preset radio station on your car radio. What is stunning is the size of the cooks that can be done on TheBeast. I have not found a cook that is too big for TheBeast. I will typically entertain between 10 and 25 people at a time about every other weekend. So each party will typically have a theme. Butts, one weekend, brisket the next, burgers of one type or another the following, etc. I've never found the limit to what TheBeast can accommodate. Nothing gets crowded and nobody is left standing in line waiting for a cook to be finished so that their cook can go on the grill. I've done as many as 8 butts at once when I was cooking for a charity event. No problem whatsoever. TheBeast is also pretty good on small cooks, but it is not his forte. That is why I got the 19" Hi-Cap, aka Beauty! Now I'm here to tell you that compared to TheBeast, Beauty! is the most petite thing I've seen. But that is misleading because in her own right she's bigger than the Large BGE, the Classic Kamado Joe, and just about every other cooker out there! And she has no small amount of heft to her. Beauty! just got placed on the patio and its been the week from hell, so while I have done the curing burn, I have yet to do a first cook on Beauty! That will happen here by Monday. I've got some beautiful NY Strips that should do just fine for the inaugural cook. Shack, owning a KK is a treat that most kamado cookers will never get to experience. I'm lucky, I have two! Each will serve a different purpose but both are beyond belief in terms of ease of operation, beauty, quality and over engineering, etc. You know. People who see my two cookers just stand there slack jawed. They can't believe what they are seeing. One dear friends wife asked my when I got into lawn art! I had to explain to her that TheBeast was a kamado. She told me that I could call it whatever, but to her it was and always would be lawn art that doubled as a cooker. You're right. Big groups make for lively and interesting conversation. We need to kick this Forum in the butt and get after it! Have a great weekend and enjoy your KK!

Shack - I've been an active member since I got my first KK, TheBeast, a KK BB 32. There are a few consistent posters, but not many. I like this Forum and the consistent posters. Good people. The thing I do like about this Forum is the depth on information on a variety of topics that has been accumulated over the past few years. Good to have you back and good to make the acquaintance.

Shack - posting pics is so easy even I can't screw it up! In the bottom right corner of the Reply box, all you have to do is click on the MORE REPLY OPTIONS button. That takes you to a reply box that has in the bottom left an area that says ATTACH FILES. Click on the CHOOSE FILE button. UP pops a window that allows you to chose any photograph you have on your computer. All you have to do with the new window that opens is find the picture you want to post. Once you find that picture and have chosen it in the new window, all you have to do is hit the ATTACH THIS FILE button right below the CHOSE FILE button. This takes a few seconds and then a bar will appear above ATTACHE FILE. On the far right hand of that bar click on ADD TO POST. Do that procedure for as many pics as you want to post. Then to post your post, click on the black ADD REPLY button at the bottom of the Reply Box. There,see how simple that is? Like I said, if I can't screw it up, you'll do just fine and dadgummed dandy!

Ok, Shack, I've gotta try this one! ANYTHING with honey and pork has my attention!