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White sticker placement.. With 6 sides on a box it amazes me that the US warehouse workers decided to put the white warning sticker on top of my expensive color labels. Not exactly what I was planning.. ARGH!

Same Guy? Italian guy in Northern California?? Wouldn't that be bazaar? Talk about 2º of separation..

I'm in Bangkok for the week renewing my Indo visa. Ahh I love this town, the smells of the street food are everywhere and it's all sooo good. I'll probably only be online once a day but we still be taking care of bidness!

Re: Roti birds..for crisp brown skin all over.. I've misplaced my log book.. or better said my little girl was last seen with it! I'm terrible on remembering times and details, that's why I have the log.. Almost every cook I write that the results of the most recent cook were the best.. Yea, yea.. Sounds lame but it sure seems that way when I'm eating..

And our Flamin' Monkey And our Flamin' Monkey posted this site a while back that shows many creative ways to cut and use the different components of the chuck. Everything from steaks to roasts... Great site. http://www.beefretail.com/prodChuckRollCuts.aspx

Broken Lid I saw another photo from the rear and it was definitely a strap placement problem. The strap moved inside the mold during the casting process.. I've had these before and we have figured out a way to ensure the strap's position is always where it should be.. He won't have to endure even one lonely week as his replacement's delivery has already been booked.

It's NOT falling apart.. it's broken. Just out of principal to set the record straight.. It's NOT falling apart, it's broken. Falling apart implies poor quality.. KOmodos are over built and don't fall apart. But things can go wrong and things can break or be broken, even on the space shuttle.. Here's a shot of the damaged KOmodo. I can honestly say that this is a very strange break.. I've had cookers in which the strap was cast too far to the outside and they tore out the back.. The torque twists the strap the other way.. not to the inside. When I received his Email this morning, I immediately called him, asked how it happened and asked him to send more shots so I could better understand what had happened. Which he said he would. He also said he loved his KOmodo and was upset about not being able to use it.. He was very polite and thankful for my call and my reassurance that I would take care of it for him. His tone and demeanor was very different from this post which of course I'm not very pleased about. I'm guessing the tone of his post was just reflecting his frustration with not being able to cook today.. As he has told me last November after his first cook that his KOmodo was amazing.. Next week is KOmodos' 5 year anniversary. It has been a long road with pot holes and bumps.. Design flaws and problems are usually discovered in the factory but of course sometimes occur after use at the customer's home. My policy is to just swap them out, which has happened more than a couple of times. BTW This is always done at no expense to the customer. We have learned from these problems/disasters and made changes that make KOmodos even better. Tom.. I'm confidant that after my call you know will be taken care of.

Roti birds..for crisp brown skin all over.. For years I've known that the crispest chicken skin with the juiciest meat was found from turned chickens. People can say what they want about beer can and spatchcocked birds but the best was always from roti setups. Two things.. a stationary bird will always have more heat from one direction.. if you are flipping it, that means your opening it up and compromising or loosing the high humidity in your KOmodo. With a roti, you can start indirect with a heat deflector at lower temps with a drip pan to render off the fat in the skin. The fat does not just run straight down but runs thru the meat while cooking. Once the fat has rendered out and off you can pull the heat deflector and drip pan. Then crank it up a bit to crisp and brown up the skin.. You can't get this texture without melting the fat off/out first.. if you try direct you will burn the skin before loosing the fat. Low and slow first indirect and then browned and crisp direct. Gotta have the roti.. I cooked lots of tasty birds without it but also had birds with areas of either burned or rubbery skin.. Just my 2¢

Seychelles Small circles.. or maybe just 2 degrees of separation. In the last three and a half years, I sent about 50 containers of my Hand Hewn teak flooring for two large hotels there the Maia resort and the Four Seasons Petit Anise. Now to have a KOmodo there completes my mission..

3 probes in one butt.. I see you were running three probes in your butt.. Was there much difference in their readings or was there enough to warrant using three in the future? Last but not least, what were they plugged into?

July 26th - 25% SOLD I just wanted to let it be know that 25% of this container has been sold. Not a bad start for this new facet of KOmodo's business. This gives me the green light to explore different avenues in the charcoal business. I can promise you new flavor profiles as well as better ways to bring you quality product consistently. Thank you all for your support.

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They are both barely open I'm all for muffling the cooker from the top.. keeps in the humidity and cuts down airflow. But that being said, you need to let some out because you need oxygen going in to feed the burn, so if something is going in something must be going out also. So close the top until you feel the gasket touch.. Then turn the top so the thumb wings move about a half inch only.. you should just barely see smoke leaving.. In my experience if you close it down your charcoal usually dies.. It helps in your first cooks to throw in some wood for smoke so you can visually see your airflow..

Re: Clamp As my middle name is rumored to be MacGyver, this tool is a must have for me.. Right up there with J&B weld and Gorilla tape.

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Re: What to use for curing period Hi Harley, Your OTB is a V/R3 Supreme and was fully broken in at the factory.. Your ready to go.. Only the old classics or V/R1 OTB's need curing. Nothing built in the last 2 years.

Re: Need Help with Assembly Owners Manual sent it's the PDF, will try again with Gmail for outgoing server

July 22nd- Charcoal in the Warehouse - Double ARGH! Talk about disappointing.. I've been writing the warehouse and impatiently waiting for it to clear customs and be delivered to the warehouse so I can start sending it out. After not getting replies to my last two emails I sent one in CAPS to the boss and everybody in the office asking for a reply only to be told it's been sitting there since the 17th! Double ARGH! Hopefully they can get the palettes shrink wrapped to go out tomorrow.. These deliveries are also a great way to save in getting accessories delivered. Need a stainless shielded heat deflector, drip pan or upgrade to some 3/8" grills? Just say the word, I'll get them shrink wrapped with the load..

5 ft 10 inches.. That is 7 inches for the palette and a total of 70 inches or 5 ft 10 inches.. I think that's very do-able..

Boxes are 15" x 9" x 9" Assuming palettes are 7"t x 40" x 48" I'm guessing that we could go seven high which would be 70" With 7 high and 13 boxes per row, we would have a total of 91 boxes or 2002 lbs max per palette. Does that make sense/seem do-able? I think that shrink wrap can secure this.. Anyone with actual experience here? Side View

This was posted inside my last years trip post. I love the food shots so I'm reposting it here where the best food porn should be..

Hello Michael and welcome to the forum.. I'm please to have you here and jealous because I have not been trout fishing in years.. I miss the hunt involved in fly fishing, my great grandfather tied his own flies and wrapped his own poles and had the patience to explain it all in great detail to a 6 year old boy.. As you know smells trigger memories, when I was young we used to go camping up in the Sierra mountains and go trout fishing every year. A wet trout has a distinct smell that is very different for some reason from any other fish. When I smell a wet trout today I'm flooded with childhood memories. Every time I see your avatar I flash on the smell and get this partial flood of memories again.. We're sure funny animals.

Would be wild.. I agree and love the idea but they are too large.. KOmodos are designed to use 1" tiles. Actually 25mm and 28mm to be exact.

Last birthday at 95 This is a shot of Art and my father last year at his 95th Birthday celebration in Lake Tahoe. And the whole Linkletter clan