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tony - Actually, electricity has bitten me several times. 120 ain't so bad, but its bigger brother 220 has gotten me twice and he ain't much fun at all! Son of a buck!

WOWZERS! MacKenzie, that is just a gorgeous breakfast Sammich! Now I'm hungry and it's all your fault.

MY favorite wood is the one I'm using at the moment. I prefer oak, pecan, maple and hickory. I also like all fruit woods. Coffee is also quite good.

Tiny - The Ladies don't have discriminating palates, yet, but they will! And they think TheBeast is IT!

Charles - killer cook and killer money shot! Skreef must of loved this cook! Hawke, too!

Charles - there is just something not right with me ... There's a whole host of things on the left side of the ledger! And the voices in my head tell me ... LOL!

MacKenzie - how about you live vicariously .... Kinda like we all do with your gorgeous cooks! I just look at your cooks and say "Someday ..."

Tiny - tomorrow evening I should have the deal done, for better or worse! Good luck with the motor! Electricity and I have a mutual hate society going with eachother! Ever since I put that hairpin in the wall socket when I was 3 ....!

Frogs - thanks so much. I'm getting a late start with the Ladies, but if I can teach Calculus as a crash course, cooking on a kamado is a snap!

ckreef - thanks for the kind words. That's high praise coming from you. I didn't plan too well on the chicken breasts ... I should have double coated them. But, that's the next cook!

I'm having the time of my life! The Ladies are a hoot and they love learning to control TheBeast! MacKenzie, thanks for the kind words.

That is simply droolicious! Please pass a piece and a new drool bib! Beautifully done! Kudos tp ya.

I finally got around ordering my rotisserie motor from One Grill a company that specializes in rotisserie equipment and it came in today! I've been looking forward to this day since Beauty! arrived with the rotisserie basket for TheBeast. Here are a few pics of the rotisserie motor and one of the basket. Front view: Notice that this specific motor indicated that it can spin 50 pounds of meet at once! This is no light-weight motor. Of course, nothing about TheBeast is light-weight! Here is a side panel that details a one-year warranty: I would have preferred a larger warranty, but the Customer Service rep assured me that if I take care of the motor, i.e. keep it out of the elements and remove it when not in use (no problem either way) that the motor was almost indestructible. He said you can't believe the number of people who leave their units attached to the cooker, rain, snow, sleet, hail or shine, and then wonder why the motor breaks. I'd believe it! Here is a picture of the other side panel. This company wants you to spin meat, even going do far as to suggest a first cook! Here is the back panel that details some features. Note that while the motor is indeed water resistant, it is not water proof! Here is a front view of the motor itself. Here is a view of the motor from the side that will face TheBeast. Note the slides on each side. And finally, here is a picture of the rotisserie itself! This thing is a beast itself. It's about 26" long and is 10" in diameter. At first glance, you go "WTF?" Then you begin thinking like a KK Owner and Dennis Linkletter. The whole basket and it's "Frankensteinian Claws" are actually designed from its inception to securely hold every cook, no matter how large (a big turkey is very doable) and no matter what shape (I'm thinking of spinning a butt and a brisket. You also notice that there is no central spit to hold the cook. That's because forcing a spit through a cook limits what you can cook and it more importantly lets precious juices find a way out of the cook. That means that the cook could conceivably be less juicy than it need be. Finally, everything is held in place by hex nuts. Nothing is going to fall out of this basket! Finally, here is a view looking at the basket end-on. Those 3 points allow you to adjust the center-point of your basket. At least that is what I's assuming. (Please CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG all you spinning KKers!) That is important because if you have a large cook in the basket, it's center of mass may not coincide with a single spot that normally comes with a rotisserie or most certainly a spit. You can actually adjust the point that connects to the kamado and the motor drive unit to more properly center the cook. Properly centered cooks mean that there is less stress on the motor and thus the motor last longer! In essence, it takes less torque to spin the cook. Okay, that's it for now. I'm thinking of spinning a chicken tomorrow. I'll make sure I take plenty of pics and post it in the appropriate thread. Thanks for taking a look at the KK Rotisserie system. Oh, hey! Anyone know of a thread where it shows where all the springs and doodads are shown as assembled? Thanks in advance!

GORGEOUS crust on those burgers! Charles, how do you NOT weigh 400 pounds cooking like that? Kudos!

buffer - first off, WELCOME to the KK family! Great to have you join us! You are about to get introduced to The Addiction! Cooking on a KK is simply the easiest and tastiest form of cooking. Tale the time to read the manual, follow the instructions on the burn in or seasoning, and then the fun begins! There isn't a thing you can't cook on your new KK. Make certain you take a bunch of pics and post them here. I'm really looking forward to seeing your 23" Ultimate. Have you thought of a name? I call my 32" Big Bad "TheBeast" and my 19' Hi-Cap Beauty! Have you though of a first cook yet? Ask us any questions you need to make you comfortable with your KK. We want you to succeed beyond your wildest dreams!

MacKenzie - lady, you CAN cook! Beautiful! KUDOS!

Howdy KKers! Well, the Ladies, soon to be granddaughters come over last night and wanted me to cook some Mac-N-Cheese to go with the feta and spinach stuffed chicken breasts I told them I was cooking. I said let's go the the store and get the fixin's for the MNC. So we dash to the store, I'm buying cheese like a madman, and we head to checkout. They ask me about the MNC. I don't get it. Then it dawns on me that they have never had scratch MNC and that the only thing they know if from a blue box! LOL!! So I say "Trust Me" and I get The Look! Evidently it runs in the family ... I get the same look from their grandmother, SWMBOI! Here is a pic of the ingredients right before the cook ... mies en plas. Again, The Look. What, Am I speaking a foreign language here? So I have to teach them how to make a roux, the basis for just about every sauce and all they can say is "This better be good!" They are skeptical especially when I added rosemary, thyme, cayenne, Dijon mustard, and nutmeg to the roux! Here is a pic of the MNC just on the grill. "ON THE GRILL?" they asked even more skeptically! Yes my dears, on the grill. And another. As I mentioned, we had chicken breast stuffed with sautéed spinach and garlic, and feta cheese. The Ladies have never heard of feta! I slit the breasts, put in the stuffing mixture, sealed with toothpicks, did a quick egg wash and then rolled in breadcrumbs seasoned with a package of spicy Hidden Valley Ranch dressing. Simple, easy, and delicious! Here's a pic of the breasts on the grill next to the MNC. Cooked at 375F until the breasts were at 155F internal. And here is the finished product. Sorry, no money shot, but every morsel of chicken was gone, plates licked, and the leftover MNC packed off to their home for lunch today! The girls loved the MNC, but to my mind next time I will use much more sharp cheddar and no mozzarella and no jack cheese. They are just too mild and added nothing to the flavor profile for me. The Ladies raved about the MNC, but I've done much better. Also, I had forgotten how much baby spinach reduces. I only used a 6 ounce bag and that was much too little an amount. Use a full pound of spinach. I used fresh baby spinach this time and frankly, it was a waste of money. Use a box of frozen spinach ... it works out just as well and costs much less! So all in all, an okay cook. The Ladies LOVE really MNC and discovered that feta cheese is really tasty! Tally one up in the Win Column for CC and Score one for The Team! Thanks for looking in. Y'all have a great weekend with the Family and your friends!

No pics!? ecx, we'll forgive you this time. I understand that in the excitement of a first cook, one could forget! Congrats of those steaks ... it just gets better from here!

Curses! I've been found out! Am I that transparent?

Ain't it the truth with scars. Thanks be to God for arthroscopy. Those scars fade in a hurry otherwise I'd look like Frankenstein's Monster! And no body art for this fat rat. Is just don't get it. I've seen too many 40 year old tats on 60 year old bodies. Not pretty! Fruita is a wonderful purveyor of really good wood. I've been using them as my go to for quite some time. Highly recommend them.

ecx - this is a red letter day for you and us! Welcome to the KK Family! That is one seriously gorgeous KK. At first, I thought I was looking at my 19" Hi-Cap .... it's the gold pebble too! You've got one gorgeous KK sitting on your deck. Congrats! So what's on the menu for the first cook? Pics! We wanna see pics Nd share in that first cook!

ckreef - right you are! I screwed up. Both are white and look quite a bit alike. I'm bad about that. That's what I tried to tell wife #1 when I tried to explain why I went home with the wrong petite blonde with blue eyes! LOL!

I have tried so very dadgummed hard not to walk down that path, but it's getting hard to resist!

Howdy KKers! I love the whole concept of discussing what woods we use for smoking our cooks. To that end, below are a couple of links that detail various woods, their flavor profiles, appropriate use for various cooks, etc. Dee Jay's Smoke Pit Virtual Weber Bullet Amazing Ribs has a pretty good discussion of the Zen of Smoke. I hope this helps one and all!

Frogs - life is always good when you get new toys! They tell me that I need new toys to keep me focused ... OH LOOK! A Chicken!