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TY @Tyrus I love the individual Caserole dishes. One more for the day. Me and Mrs skreef cooked this for the mechanics at work. Pulled pork Mac & Cheese Layer of pulled pork lightly sauced. A layer of Mrs skreef's awesome Mac & Cheese. A crumble topping. All these cooks would work just as easily in a KK - just not quite as fun as playing with live fire.

Basically a cross between baked Spaghetti and pizza. These were Angel hair pasta, pizza sauce, Italian sausage, pepperoni, sweet peppers, Mozzarella, Asiago, and Fontana cheese.

Bronx Bombers for lunch today. This is one of our favorite dishes and really easy to make. I always have the ingredients on hand. 

Last time I forgot about the KK until the next night when I got home from work. It cruised at 250* for 30 hours. There was no lump left - LOL

Sounds like my kind of night

So we ended up with thighs and legs. I guess that makes leg quarters - LOL. Initially I fired the grill too hot. Having realized my mistake I shuffled the coals and chicken around a bit. Not bad for first attempt with the Grill Grates - Yea they can get screaming hot. Also some balsamic marinated cabbage. And one for Instagram

The fire is lit. Unfortunately we had a chicken disaster. I open the whole chicken and it didn't smell right into the trash it went. Mrs skreef is down at the local grocery store right now grabbing up some leg quarters. Just a minor blip in dinner.

We had a late lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant so the current plan is to fire up the grill at 7 pm.

No worries. With tonight's chicken dinner we'll start dressing them up

Unfortunately no leather seats. And even worse, push button ignition but no remote start (almost a deal breaker). That was a new 2018 still on the lot. They wanted it gone. A good deal with a bunch of factory cash back. A decent down payment. Fortunately I have good credit so I got my own financing. Without all that I would have never been able to afford it. I am having a blast learning the grill. Will try out the grates hopefully tomorrow (weather permitting).

A great Grill Grates - LOL

I know you didn't think I was talking about a nice house or piece of property. Grill Grates makes my NuKe Delta a really nice piece of grilling real estate.   Custom cut to length they fit perfectly. The way I configured them you can go full Grill Grates or 1/2 Grill Grates and 1/2 regular grate depending on what I want to cook.

Great looking cook. Rotisserie is where the Meater really excels.

This is sort of kewl. Years ago I requested (and got approved) for a clear sky chart to be generated for my front yard. This is the current chart. Also if you're super geeky check out the link to read about these charts. Super useful for astrophotography. http://www.cleardarksky.com/c/CCK1GAkey.html?1

Here is my very first picture. Done with a standard telescope and a high end webcam. Took a video of saturn then used special software to convert it into a picture. After that i was hooked. Soon after saturn I did some major upgrades. Taught my son how to do all this years ago. At this point in his college career he couldn't care less. My son and a friend out by the telescope many years ago. It was remote controlled from inside the house. Much nicer on the colder nights. Here he is doing his thing. He actually had a good understanding of what was needed to produce a good astrophotography picture. Here is one of his better images. I could talk for hours about astrophotography.

LOL - Cake is one of my radio stations on Pandora. Great group.

I used to be into astrophotography big time. Have some really awesome pictures from that adventure. Hopefully when I retire years from now I can get into it again. BTW you can basically kiss that $4500 goodbye to get a reasonably decent setup (if you spend wisely). I think I was into it for about $10k.

Looks delicious. I like your wind shield.

That's a kewl product. I like it. There is just something different cooking with wood.

I've tried a few different versions of fried provolone over the last few days. I've come up with what I think is the ultimate version. Fried Provolone with sun dried tomatoes and Italian herbs. @MacKenzie do you recognize that small grate. I've found a few different uses for that grate.

You're just trying to take the fun out of what could be an awesome fish cook. Just Sayin.........

Any Central America or South America hardwood lump is hands down superior than any American Hardwood lump. South of the equator the trees are just more dense. Anything from Fogo is south of the equator plus free shipping in the lower 48. KJ lump is south of the equator. There are others. I'm done with RO and Cowboy. When you spend as much as we do for a kamado spending a few extra dollars on better lump is a very small drop in a large bucket. Coco char is the best for extra long low-n-slow. If you got some coffee lump from Dennis you are golden. When you run out look to Fogo.

I basically agree with everything @tony bhad to say on this subject. The little bit of advice I could add - defiantly spend the extra money for better grade lump. Anything from Fogo is a good bit better than any American Hardwood Lump. Initially it's a bit more pricey on the wallet but once you start factoring in burn time, it's really not that much more expensive. Definitely fill all the way up to just a smige below the fire basket handles. Whatever you don't use will snuff out and be waiting for you next cook. As for your temp problem for low-n-slow - If I had to guess you have vents too much open (you just can't imagine a fire burning with less oxygen). Top vent at 1/4 turn from closed (at the most) and the bottom vent set to a credit card width. I know it seems like a fire could never keep going with that little air flow but KK's are so efficient, yea they need almost no oxygen to maintain a low-n-slow temp. Charles

Good looking fish cook. You said stuffing. I thought crab which would have made 4lbs into 6lbs. I've never done a fish cook like that before but I'm going to try it.

The Aldi's where I live is the crap grocery store of all time. Now Fresh Market, that's an entirely different story. My wallet usually can't handle a trip to Fresh Market.