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Really great redo and additions. That will be a fantastic cooking space. Can't wait to see the pictures with the stone installed.

Yesterday I was walking through Walmart (Yea I know - LOL) and they had one of those cooking stations setup. I almost never try the food at those stations but there was two old ladies urging me to try some sausage. We hadn't eaten lunch yet and I'll admit I was a bit hungry at the time so I walked away chewing on a piece of sausage they had cooked.  Turned out it was pretty good sausage. We were already planning on having shrimp and grits for dinner so why not add some sausage. I cooked the sausage and shrimp in a wok basket on the 16" KK. Meanwhile Mrs skreef cooked the grits and made a spicy tomato cream sauce.  Grits with melted Asiago cheese in a pool of the tomato cream sauce with grilled sausage and shrimp. A quick and easy meal that tasted delicious. 

Congratulations, love my 19 and 16 combination. I know you'll love yours.

Awesome Konro cook. You're going to love that grill. It's just plain fun to cook on. So glad it finally arrived. Takes a while but the wait is worth it.

I got a big fat goose egg for my $3. Maybe next time.

I have my one set of numbers.

Great first pizza.

I think it's just slow and the rotisserie is by comparison fairly fast in its rotation. I do agree that ambient temps so close to the meat are inheritly off. Probably less so with a rotisserie cook. It just took a while to catch up.

I always go for the thinnest cheapest bacon I can find. Once you do the weave it's double thick. If you use thick cut bacon it will be twice that thick in the weave and won't cook properly (in my opinion anyway).

Did a rotisserie chicken cook using the Meater + tonight. Worked as stated. Probe in the bird just past the line (so ambient side was sticking out a good ways). Meater + base sitting next to the grill. Smartphone running the app in the kitchen which was also streaming Pandora that was Bluetooth connected to my Bose speaker in the game room. Everything worked as needed. A minor observation. The meat end of the probe came to temperature almost immediately. The ambient end took about 15 minutes to sync up with the dome temperature. No big deal there. Towards the end of the cook (an hour into it) the ambient was running about 10* higher than the dome. I guess that's sort of expected as the probe is sitting about 15"-18" closer to the semi direct flame than the dome thermometer. All in all I was pleased with it's performance.

Meatloaf is such a staple food this side of the pond I just never realized it wasn't a staple food all over the world. Been eating meatloaf my entire life. It has always been OK but once I started making it on a Kamado it went from just OK to awesome.

@MacKenzie that's a mighty fine looking pork meatloaf. Great cook. @tekobo also look up Fatty. A Fatty is basically pork meatloaf rolled round and wrapped in bacon.

That's what us Americans call a shop vac.

I remove the ash basket and go in from the top. I have a small sweepy brush and a small dust pan type arrangement. All KK's have a fairly large ash area under the lump basket. You'll easily get 5-10 cooks before needing to clean out the ash. Most people fill the basket full of lump, do a cook then shut it down. There will be unused lump leftover. Next cook use a stick of some kind to stir the leftover lump then top it off with fresh lump and fire it up for the next cook. You can go on like this for 5-10 cooks before cleaning it out.

As you stated the Meater + is just a Bluetooth repeater built into the charging base. They also have a Meater Link option (in their app) which allows you to Bluetooth repeat with any smart device. All you need is an old smart phone or tablet that has working Bluetooth and you have a Meater + repeater without having to upgrade from the original Meater.

My Meater + units arrived yesterday. Two individually boxed units. I opened one of the units and left the other unit intact. After charging the probe I gave it a quick test. I put the probe in the KK and the Meater + charger/repeater on the grill table. I was able to get a good signal in the kitchen which is what I need. That's about as deep in the house as it would go but the kitchen is an acceptable range for my use. I'll do a rotisserie cook this weekend to get a real world test.

His test seemed good to go so that's promising. He's got a really cozy looking ODK.

This too was my first kickstarter. It's also definitely my last kickstarter. The idea of begging people for money on an idea that isn't even close to a product just doesn't sit well with me. I tried, they failed.

Not sure if I'm done blowing off steam yet. We'll have to wait until we see how well it works and even then I really have nothing good to say about how they ran their kickstarter. It was always fun watching Temu jetset around the world world on my dime. It really doesn't take much to set me off with regards to this subject - LOL

Well I don't really need the block function. With a repeated Bluetooth I should be able to get to my kitchen counter and one probe is all I need for rotisserie cooks. I have a plan for the second extended range charger if all works out.

I'm still not holding my breath. We'll see what shows up and how well it works.

They offered to allow 4 probe meter block backers to change out for 2 of the extended range sets. I took them up on the offer and tracking says Tuesday delivery. @tony b pm coming your way.

Mine arrived safe and sound. Thank you very much. Very tasty. My kind of sauce. I'll use the koozie with pride just for you

If being in Crete and doing how the Crete's do means ketchup - I would do ketchup for that view. But that's about what it would take for me to stoop down to ketchup on fries - LOL

Great looking Kebabs. Last night I made some Tsukune Kebabs that were definitely too moist. The fire Gods were trying to grab them off the skewers and I had to break out a screen. I hate using the screens but didn't want to give up my dinner to the fire Gods.