CeramicChef

Hey, I've done Tube Steak many times on both Beauty! & TheBeast. There are few things better than a good old chili dog! At many of my parties where kids attend, I use Beauty! for kids duty. She's quite well behaved and the kids cook their own hot dogs and burgers under adult supervision. They just love manning the tongs! Hogsfan - I love your Dad's sense of humor! He sounds like quite a guy. Enjoy that Tube Steak cook!

Can someone please pass another drool bib?

So, Hogsfan, exactly what have you planned for the initial cook after the burn in? You know you can always sear off some great ribeyes or NY strips after that burn in, right? Looking forward to seeing this. What a gorgeous KK! That blue is something else!

:lol: I never inhaled! Thanks, Bill!

Frogs, that's just dadgummed mean! And I LOVE it!

Hogsfan - you're quite welcome! It's no big deal.Hogs, that's one beautiful KK! I notice that you have the single dial vent on the bottom. Did you consider the dual dial manifold?

If I could have gotten that color in the pebble finish, I'd been looking at a couple of cobalt blue pebble finish KKs on my patio!

Any time is a good time for dark beers!

Waiting is the hardest part, bosceaux! And the closer it gets, the harder it gets.

Hogsfan and Redstick - I'm my estimation, Scouting is of inestimable worth to young men. If there was ever a better program to prepare young men for all phases of life, I've never heard of it. I was in Scouting for a lot of years and never regretted a single minute of it!

bosceaux - seemed to have worked fine for me. Could it be that you're in Canada and have to go through amazon.ca?

Bryan - that's some good info. Thanks!

Hogs - its no big deal.

This should be good!

Very nicely done, bosceaux! Kudos and congrats! You and your sons have fun this coming hockey season. Please keep us posted on their games. Thanks!

Tomahawk - killer cook and beautiful money shot! Kudos!

Hogs - hey, CONGRATS, CONGRATS, CONGRATS! Stunning blue. Hey, I have an extra set of the grill grippers. PM me with your address and I'll ship 'em to ya.

Frogs - truer words have never been posted! Just do yourself a favor and don't post this at the other place ... you'll get flamed as being an elitist bastard!

Frogs - I smear a light coating of liquid soap on the outside of my porcelain coated CI. Makes cleanup easy peasy.

Tomahawk - what a feed! Perfection on a plate! Kudos!

+1^^! AMEN!

Tomahawk - its hard to overcook with Sous Vide .... You're just looking to sear the outside of the steaks; the inside is done to a perfect med rare, about 133° and it hits the table at 135°.

vkl - that last picture is worth 100,000 words! Congrats to you; you're gonna love Leilani!

Tomahawk - the 32 is a very well behaved cooker no matter the size of the cook on the grate. For small cooks, during the week, I just outfit my second basket with the basket splitter and I light up the lump! No big deal. Whether I'm cooking just a single chicken breast or I'm doing multiple turkeys, TheBeast is quite capable of answering the call. Of course, my 19, Beauty!, gets her fair share of small cooks as well. multiple KKs gives you a flexibility that most folks never get to enjoy. If I were to pick a starter KK and was on the fence about which to put on my patio first, I'd choose the larger size. My motto has always been "Better to have the size and not need it than to need it and can't get it."

bosceaux - there is certainly no need to apologize for anything here! Thanks for being here; you may not be cute, but your damned good!