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Pulled pork sandwiches Serves 8-10 For the rub: 1/4 cup freshly ground black pepper 1/4 cup paprika 1/4 cup turbinado sugar 2 tablespoons salt 2 teaspoons dry mustard 1 teaspoon cayenne For the pork: 6-pound to 8-pound pork shoulder (Boston butt) For the mopping sauce (optional): Leftover rub 2 cups cider vinegar 3 tablespoons freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons salt 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoon paprika 1 tablespoon cayenne The night before you plan to barbecue, combine rub ingredients in a small bowl. Massage pork well with about half of the rub. Transfer pork to a plastic bag, and refrigerate it overnight. Store rest of rub in a covered container at room temperature. Before you begin to barbecue, remove pork from refrigerator. Pat down meat with another coating of rub. Let the pork sit at room temperature for about 45 minutes. Prepare smoker for barbecuing according to manufacturer's instructions, bringing temperature to 220 to 250 degrees. If you plan to baste the pork, stir any remaining rub together with mop ingredients and 1 cup water in a saucepan and warm the mixture over low heat. Transfer pork to the smoker and cook for about 1 1/2 hours per pound, or until it's falling-apart tender. The internal temperature of the meat should reach about 190 degrees. Mop the pork about once an hour in a wood-burning pit, or as appropriate for your style of smoker. Remove pork from smoker, wrap in foil and let it sit for about 15 minutes, until cool enough to handle. Pull off chunks of the meat, and either shred or chop them as you wish. Make sure each serving has some of the darker, chewier Mr. Brown crust along with the lighter interior meat. If you wish, serve the barbecue sauce of your choice. Per serving: (based on 10 servings) 33 calories, 44g protein, 7g fat ( 0g saturated), 11g carbohydrate, 252mg sodium, 20mg cholesterol, 1g dietary fiber. This is all false but will make ya all feel better! Tidewater coleslaw Makes about 4 cups 1 1/2 cups Best foods/Helmans mayonnaise 1/2 cup white vinegar 1/3 cup sugar 1 tablespoon celery seed Salt and freshly cracked black pepper to taste 1 small head green cabbage, finely shredded 2 carrots, finely grated In a small bowl, blend mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, celery seed, and salt and pepper to taste, and mix well. In a large bowl, combine cabbage and carrots. Pour dressing over mixture and blend well. Refrigerate until serving time. Per serving: ( 1/2 cup) 61 calories, 82g protein, 3g fat ( 0g saturated), 17g carbohydrate, 58mg sodium, 4mg cholesterol, 38g dietary fiber. This too is all false but will also make ya all feel better! Lexington vinegar sauce Makes about 3 1/2 cups 2 1/2 cups cider vinegar 1/2 cup ketchup 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1 tablespoon hot sauce (preferably Crystal brand) 4 teaspoons salt 4 teaspoons hot red pepper flakes 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 teaspoon white pepper 1 1/2 tablespoons of your favorite barbecue rub Combine vinegar, ketchup, brown sugar, hot sauce, salt, hot red pepper flakes, black pepper, white pepper and rub in a large non-reactive bowl with 1/2 cup of water. Whisk until sugar and salt dissolve. Alternatively, place ingredients in a large jar and shake to mix. The sauce will keep for several weeks stored in a jar in the refrigerator. Bring to room temperature before using. Per serving: ( 1/4 cup) 28 calories, 0g protein, 0g fat ( 0g saturated), 8g carbohydrate, 887mg sodium, 0mg cholesterol, 0g dietary fiber. This is true.... just a bit salty!

Break-in period... I've already removed 2 gallons...about a gallon from both the top and bottom in the vacuum kiln before tiling. Water is applied to the surface to get best adhesion for the thin-set/mortar. Then the grout is applied. Some moisture is still inside. I'd set a cap between 350-400º for the first two cooks so to guarantee no venting of moisture. I'm probably worrying about something that could not happen... The last thing I want is trapped moisture causing an exit hole that later would be an entry hole for moisture.. Just my 2¢

How cool is this new dark Terra Blue with charcoal grout.. Saweet!!

The damage I always hold my breath until my lil girls are safely in their new home.. Traveling is not an easy thing when you weigh this much. No damage is acceptable but in this case we got lucky with just a tap to her nose.. Loosing two half tiles.. It will be an easy repair.. Thank God Murphy took the day off..

The best Thai food.. I eat the best Thai food everyday... My wife cooks it.. Yep, loved the food so much a got married just to eat it evey day! I just asked her about recipes and she laughed and said just a handful of this, a splash of that so on.. She never measures anything But I recommend looking for Lobo Thai packaged spices distributed by http://www.anhing.com

Before you get all excited... Ok Guys, before you get all excited... Wayne was in the proverbial right place at the right time and ended up being the proud owner of this one off set of prototype Komodo side tables. I do not want to belittle Wayne's tables but I decided that I wanted something more rigid and solid. So please hold on a bit longer and I'll eventually like something enough to put it on my Komodos..

Re: socket like fixture My great, great, great, grandfather started the R&D on this project 240 years ago in a small Japan seaside village. I'm sorry but I've been sworn to secrecy and the last thing I'm allowed to do is disclose the complex reduction gearing and radical cam layout to a new forum member or anyone with a last name that starts with a "J" Your just going to have to trust me.. A Komodo Rotisserie cooked chicken is just the best... crispy skin with juicy meat that is perfectly and evenly cooked.. Regardless what people who cook on those other ceramic forums say... a chicken turned while cooking forces the juices to run through the meat again and again rather than drip out into your cooker.. Try that on a beer can... BTW What's your zip code I'll get you a shipping quote

Feedback wanted: New CNC cut stainless and teak handle and new latch... The center section of the handle will be teak http://homepage.mac.com/komodokamado/.P ... -Latch.jpg Anybody know why the above does not show? TNW?

Thank you Thank you Mr Fire-Monkey She is the only thing I'd rather talk about than Komodo's these days.. Happy fathers day to all..

Sorry missed this... Yes the ashes do land on the burner.. In 30 seconds you can pull it out tap it on something solid and it empties/cleans it's self. It is very solid cast iron and the center ring falls right out to also loose it's ash. The area around the fire box is large and can hold lots of cooks. The largest difference is that it is soo easy to remove the ashes that it's not the PIA that makes you want to go until it's full. Put a shoe box or newspaper under the cooker, lift out the charcoal basket and gently sweep out hte ashes.. It's a effortless 2-3 minute job.. no struggling thru a little tiny door.

Double-layer design's stability is engineered Hello FireMonkey... Welcome to the forum... I appreciate the opportunity to explain that this design was professionally designed/engineered by a team of the top engineers at ANH refractories. http://www.anhrefractories.com/ These refractory material experts specialize in refractories designed for extremely demanding applications including molten steel, iron and glass production. When it comes to Heat-Containment they told me was that there was only one material that could both be durable and insulate. The problem being is that "unobtainium" costs thousand of dollars per gram Once realized we set out to design, engineer and build the only truly insulated ceramic cooker and of course it had to be two layers... The dense material runs a little more that 1" and the insulation is a little less than 1.5". Pretty much all high temperature applications use a dense, durable hot face backed with an insulating layer. Ceramic bonding (molecular level) occurs the boundary interface layer at about 1800ºf. Komodo's of course will never get hot enough to achieve this ceramic bonding but the engineers assure me that my Komodo's are so over engineered that their material won't even know it's been heated. These two materials are paired together on a regular basis. The dense inner layer will expand and contract but the outside insulating layer being very lightweight and porous is very forgiving and will accept this movement. Yes, both layers have reinforcing wire mesh.

Teak flooring.. When it was available in the states it used to retail for $9-12.00. The actor John Malkovich did 2 houses with it, including the famous one in France. Now I pretty much get my jobs from Interior designers and architects for hotel work, condo's etc. All my textured floors are finished with an in the wood polymerized tung oil finish that's repairable unlike polyurethane. If anyone is interested drop me a line, if I’m not booked solid, I'll be able to give you commercial ex-factory pricing There is a partially finished web site www.HandHewnFloors.com

All ready in production.. What's the point of doing research here if I not going to apply what I learn ..... From your feedback, here is some shots of the new 1/4" grill with the side handles and small door handle.. lower grill is open at front. So what cha think?

What temp? Which is it? 225, 250 or 275º And to clarify for the masses this is indirect yes?

Bill... Bill... Your cooker has standard spacing.. the confusion she had was that where the tiles turn they should have a 3mm max space at the bottom she made this in the middle of the tile.. This is very minor.. Maybe 1.5mm difference at most and purely cosmetic. Actually my QC gal liked them more that way.. As for color, Some tiles just call for contrasting grout and some can actually be matched.. Your blue would not call for a blue grout.. The vibrant blue tiles have a grey tan border that we get very close to matching..

Yup.. Good eyes there... Yup.. Good eyes there... very observant.. Come do QC with me.. The standard is a 3mm between the tiles left to right.. Where the tiles turn this 3mm should be at the bottom.. This was made with the 3mm at the middle. On the two rows that turn sharply this makes a difference of about 1.5mm (wider) When we brought in new girls for training.. Standard tolerances were set and this was a misunderstanding of the 3mm is measured where the tiles turn... This tile has a bit of a softer edge than others and therefore holds a bit more grout.. This also adds to the appearance of the wider grout line. All tiles have no space between them top to bottom and are touching.. that's just grout in the groove...

As I've said, I've been designing furniture and textured floors here for 17 years. Woodworking has always been a passion of mine. My primary business now is Hand Hewn Floors. Wide plank textured teak flooring. I just received these from a customer of mine so I thought I'd share them with my new Komodo family and friends...

Smaller versions Thank you for the kudos, I really appreciate them. I've been in Indonesia soo long and don't get much direct feedback from my customers.. It's really nice. I will get around to making a smaller version of the OTB probably next winter. I'm in the process of making a better quality, better designed mold to increase the production of this OTB. The down side of having my unique two layer design is that for each cooker I have to do four separate castings... But I do plan on doing a smaller version in the future. First priority is now side tables... Thank you for the input...

Better than in the works... Better than in the works... It's in production Photos are up in the Komodo Photo section...

Let them say what they want.. They haven’t got a clue... That's a new one.. I thought they claimed it was quality issues... saying that an Indonesia crew could not handle the demand is just a joke on an island with 90 million people with the government claiming unemployment of 10.9% (most say it's much more.) If you want/need more production bring in more workers.. My flooring factory has two crews and works two shifts a day… The reason RJ left is that he was being pursued by the owner of the original factory contracted to build Kamados in Indonesia. The factory foolishly built and shipped 2 containers of cookers and was never paid. (full documentation and contact telp #'s available) RJ had hired Ben Abrams an American lawyer to protect him and negotiate with the factory owner.. RJ left the day before the meeting with the factory owner and laywer. Another reason was that shipping went up drastically that spring, I believe it was 30-35%... Factory was burned down… After the fall of the Suharto regime, the Government implemented very pro worker manpower regulations to discourage/stop the exodus of foreign companies after the likes of both Sony and Nike packed up and left. One of these regulations was that if you fired a worker for ANY REASON they would receive 2 months salary for every year of employment. You also had a rash of new labor unions formed who felt that they had to be pro active to be worth their dues. The situation with the new democracy was very pro people, anti-government/management/authority. Soon there were rumors of companies being forced to pay off worker large amounts. As you can imagine a worker with a company for 10 years would receive 20 months compensation, that’s winning the lottery in a third world country. My factory employed more than 400 workers at the time. We had problems with about 10 workers. They would just leave their work area.. walk around and when reprimanded by the managers they would basically tell my staff to go fcuk themselves.. and we should just fire them.. So we did… but did not pay them off.. The unions stepped in for a few days then backed off after they heard the story.. We presented our case to manpower court and won. These guys would sit outside the factory trying to garner support from the workers to strike for their rights to no avail.. About a month later gas was poured over a back wall at 1:30am and the factory was burned to the ground.. The factory was an all-wooden structure was un-insurable.. I lost over 500k that night and more than a million dollars in lost sales. The non-striking workers still work for me in my primary business.. which is textured wide plank teak flooring. Komodo has about 35 workers and Hand Hewn has about 225. In 17 years I have fired only about 20 people and ten of those were from stealing.. I'm the best thing that every happened to this community. Out of the 225 workers I have more than 150 of them have worked for me for 10-15 years.. Let them say what they want.. They haven’t got a clue...

Re: Once again.. Common sense solution.. Jasen, maybe it was I who wrote and was misunderstood... When I said Precise.. I was not upset or being sarcastic... It's just that it's so easy to turn the top just a lil bit when you’re using a 10" diameter knob... Micro adjustments are easy... So I'll not beat around the bush here.. the machined stainless shaft works beautifully and requires no maintenance... Nuf said end of post

Rumor has it that today is my birthday... I'm celebrating the 7th anniversary of my 39th birthday! This new forum now has 81 registered users, 890 posts/articles and an average of 300 views a day after only 3 months... I could not have asked for a better present

Once again.. Common sense solution.. Mine are machined so that they are a bit loose when cold and tighten up when heated/hot.. They actually have enough play in them that they jiggle quite a bit when at room temperature.. Once again.. Common sense solution.. Precise? I'm sorry I never thought of the damper top as part of my calibrated airflow control system... but then again the top has a 10" diameter.. Just a lil turn at the outside is a micro adjustment at the shaft.. I don't think anyone wants to have to turn it many, many times to open it up or close it quickly... The only problem is that when they are brand new sometimes they turn by themselves and slowly close from gravity As they get gunked up a bit they become perfect

Stainless quality... Hi Gerard, The quality and price of stainless has to do with the nickel content. Type 304—the most common; 18/8 stainless steel contains composition is 18% chromium and 8% nickel. This makes such steels non-magnetic and less brittle at low temperatures. Lower qualities have less nickel and magnetic. Being that I live and produce these cookers in a third world country I'm constantly amazed at the resourcefulness of people in finding ways to cheat me A few cents here, a buck there all add up to something in a country where 40¢ gets you a decent filling meal. A few years ago, I purchased a couple of boxes of "imported stainless acorn nuts" only to find that when exposed to water they achieved a lovely rust colored patina Today I went through my factory with a magnet and was very pleased that out of 50-70 pieces in the rack the magnet was not interested in any of them.. I did although find some cut pieces that go behind the handle that did.. Yikes Looks like we need to have a magnet at the truck during deliveries... But after doing a little rust research and was very surprised that contamination not low quality stainless may be the culprit.. Here is a lot more about stainless, rust and corrosion than most of you will care to read but I of course found it fascinating... Looks like I'm going to have to segregate my shop.. and work on contamination... Almost everyone who makes stainless steel products finds that they rust occasionally. That upsets users since they have paid for “stainless.â€

Telephone Tag.. Hey Bill... Telephone Tag and your it.. Left a message on your machine... TNW my hours and a time conversion chart are posted in the "New Komodo VOIP message service" post in the General area as well as in the Relevent Links area I have 512k ADSL service but my area is down.. So as an emergency backup... I'm using a telephone company dial up number that is a toll call with no log in. It comes in sooo dog slow..