CeramicChef

Shack - I'm all over that! Great recipe and wonderful idea. Thanks!

What a stunning idea! This I gotta try with The Ladies here at ChezChef. Shack, I owe you BIG time!

ckreef - I'm gonna give you the benefits of my years of experience with women, alcohol, and guys. Two's company, three's a crowd. Unless, of course, you're into threesomes! And those never last! Don't ask, you don't want know ow I came to those conclusions! Let's just say I'm not unique in the world! LOL!

I'm not a big fan of these types of mats. I have baskets I use for my veggies. You can't sear on them. I've got the basic stainless steel grates and Grill Grates for that. And Grill Grates already has holes so I don't have to take time and modify something. Friends have these mats and I've just never seen the need for them, at least in my world. But that's just me. Tony, I'm interested in your review.

Dennis - is there an ETA for the tube you're talking about!

Yeah, I know what you mean. My two kids, a boy and girl, fought over who gets TheBeast, my KK BB 32" when they first saw it. My son claimed it. And as a Spec Forces Marine Corp Officer and Standing just shy of 6'5" he's big enough to enforce it. His sister was pissed until I got my 19" Hi-Cap, Beauty! we buy these KKs for us and our kids and grandkids fight over them before we start assuming room temperature! LOL! And we get to teach them how to cook on them! What a great concept!

One of the other things that is really nice about the CI smoke pot is that pellets do pretty well in this thing. In some respects, they do even better. You can really pack this smoke pot with pellets and get a longer time on smoke. I've got about 7 or so 5 gallon buckets filled with various pellets from my days of using a Weber Kettle. I kept them just in case. Just in case happened. Ya never know!

Shack - talk about the price is right! Nice find!

MacKenzie - what a great looking cook! Beautifully done. Kudos and all kinds of congrats!

Shack - there are some very fine physicians in our Armed Forces. I used to consult to physicians and I can tell you there is a real war to get those physicians who decide to separate from the service. They are generally very well trained, have a ton of experience, and are very technically competent. This really holds true for the surgical specialities. You got very lucky with your Doc. Buddy, I'm very impressed with your commitment to your health, your new lifestyle, and especially your sticking to the program. This was not easy and you deserve a lot of praise for what you've done! You have every right to puff your chest out, brag, and be very proud!

WOW! Was this the bypass operation or was it a total resection to the small pouch? A zero mortality rate for this is impressive. Kudos to you for sticking with the program! It ain't easy!

CRAP! Start checking those who have been in your back yard. Someone had to have known it was there and what it was worth. Your basic sleazeball has no idea what you had or what it was worth. Somebody you have had in your backyard knew you were on vacation and took your grill. Sorry to say, but I'm afraid its true. I hope that you get Tatay back. This sucks, my friend!

That is quite a journey! How did you do it? Losing 150 lbs in 18 months is amazing and to be commended! ATTABOY!

Charles - you MUST have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express recently because ... YOU NAILED IT! Mighty tasty looking cook. You and Super Jr. have a really love affair going. You love cooking on it and it loves giving you and the family great food!

tiny - that is exactly the DO I use. Because of the original post by Syzgyies above that tony was so good to provide, I'm assuming that the DO that Syzgyies was put in a 23" KK. Read that thread and I'm certain you'll be convinced it works just fine and dandy. The take away I get from rereading that thread is that the guys who use that smoke pot nestle it down into the coals and light the char under it with a torch similar to what I do.

A smoking heat deflector! Now that's an interesting idea. Very interesting. Let us know if that works out; you might be on to something there.

tiny - good point. I spray that pot with a cheap, generic version of Pam after every use. So far, so good. But your point is quite valid and well taken. Thanks!

MacKenzie - great question! The easy answer is even with the handles cut off, it really wouldn't fit Beauty!, my 19" Hi-Cap. That smoke pot is simply too tall to really fit well. It's not the width that's the problem, it the height. Beauty! is a petite little babe (relatively speaking, of course)!

Frogs! Dadgummit man! Now I gotta go do a fattie and it's gonna blow my diet all too hades! And it's all your fault. My Sooners are still gonna feast on flattened Horned Toads! Maybe what we need is a course on how to flatten and roast Frogs!

WOW!, MacKenzie! You never cease to amaze. Wonderfully done.

Howdy KKers! Here are pics of my smoke pot that I use while smoking in TheBeast. As you'll see, this little 2 qt Lodge Dutch Oven really won't fit well in Beauty!, my 19" Hi-Cap; she is too petite. When it comes to smoking meats, that is strictly within the purview of TheBeast, my KK BB 32". However, when you see the Lodge Dutch Oven smoke pot in the belly of TheBeast, you can see that it fits quite nicely even with a heat deflector in place. So, let's cut to the chase. Here is a bottom view of the drilled bottom. These are 1/8" holes drilled about every 1.25 inches around the perimeter of the DO. Here is the pot flipped over looking down inside the DO. Here is, hopefully, a better view of the hole pattern in the drilled DO. Now here is the DO smoke pot sitting on top of a full fire box in Beauty! As you can see there really isn't any room in Beauty! for the DO smoke pot and a heat deflector. Here is that same DO smoke pot sitting in the belly of TheBeast. Here is a look at the coffee wood i'll be using later today in a cook. This stuff is tremendous in conjunction with a coffee/cardamom rub. Finally, here is the DO smoke pot ready for action later in the day. Here is what you get at the end of every smoke. I just dump the charcoal back into the firebox for the next cook. There are not very many volatiles left so it makes good fuel. Waste not, want not. All I do before I put a cook on to smoke is move half of the heat deflector to one side, put the DO smoke pot directly over the lit charcoal and wiggle it to seat it well in the burning charcoal, move the heat deflector back into place, put the cooking grate back in place, put the cook on the grate and shut the lid. No waiting to thin blue smoke. It happens from the first instant you get smoke as the smoke generated by the DO smoke pot is injected directly down into the charcoal fire thus burning off all the foul tasting volatiles that you see in the initial gray smoke that is produced by laying the smoke wood directly on the coals. Now, what you may need to do is make certain that the cooks you smoke with this DO smoke pot is make certain that your cook, i.e. butt, brisket, ribs, etc., is really cold when you put it on the grate. Because this technique gives you a milder version of smoke at all times, your cook may not have the deep smoke taste many people want. You can combat that by cooling the meat your smoking thus doing a couple of things. First colder meat will condense more smoke on its surface for a longer period of time. Second, you may want to use woods that are not as sublime as alder, fruit woods, etc. Rather, look to hickory or mesquite. The originator of this little DO Smoke Pot runs a bead of flour paste around the rim of the DO and then puts the lid on. It seals the DO and forces all the smoke out the holes drilled in the bottom. I have not found the need to do that with this DO. I'd say about 95%+ of the smoke generated by this incarnation goes straight out through the holes in the bottom. I wasn't worth a damn with paste in the first grade and I haven't gotten any better with age! Finally, a disclaimer here. This IS NOT an idea that is original with me. Rather, I got this from a thread here at the KK Forum. And God help me, I can't find the original post where this smoke pot is described!. It originated with , I believe, @Syzygies, a KK owner and member of our Forum I'm certain most of you don't know that you know. Remember the movie "A Beautiful Mind"? I've been told by a reliable source that all the mathematical notion that you saw on chalk boards, windows, etc. is the work of our very own mathematician, i.e. @Syzygies, who came up with this technique. Who says mathematicians are out of touch and don't live in the real world!? This is about as real world as it gets! Syzygies, I give it up to you for this technique! It's aces. I owe you more than a couple of beers.

tiny - come on down to Oklahoma! With that red neck of yours you'd fit right in! LOL!

MacKenzie - my lips are welded shut!It's stills great to have you on board.

bgrant - world class owner! Makes a world class cooker. World class customer service. World class. That's why I have two KKs and know I can recommend Dennis and his KKs without any reservation whatsoever!

ckreef - huh? First my eyes went, then my legs, then my hair, then my .... what are we talking about? LOL!