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Those look awesome.. I love beef ribs, great flavor and those big bones really bring out the cave man in me!

Re: More meat more cook time?? My hypothestimate is that it will take more BTU's to bring a larger volume of meat to temp. If we think of them as big heat sponges.. more heat will be necessary to bring them to your target temp.. If you maintain the same temps that you do for your 12 hour cooks, I'm guessing it will be the same.. You will definitely burn more fuel. Please take some shots..

As the first migration was less than Ideal, we need to toss that and start again. We will be doing the migration in a previous version of vBulletin and then once we have confirmed it's all copacetic I'll upgrade to the new version. ;) PS from the emails I received, many people went to the website to change their passwords rather than to the forum. The two are completely different sites and not interlinking. You will need to change your password at http://komodokamado.com/forum I'm really sorry about having to do this new password routine again in a day or two but that migration was just too corrupted.

Re: Smoke - What's it all about? First of all all woods have different flavor profiles.. Some of course have much more mild primary smoke and some will make smoke that makes your food inedible. You have probably heard about my burning larger chunks of wood outside the the grill in a charcoal starter until the gas/biofuel is burned off.. then putting it into the grill. This is what a lot of old school BBQ joints do.. this ensures they will still have all of the secondary vapor that can be lost from over carbonization. And remember that it's condensation that causes the vapor to stick to the meat so once your meat gets hot this transfer becomes less effective. That's why I always put me meat in as cold as possible if I'm cleaning up the smoke.. I think the chips are a total waste of time.. Poof and they are all gone..soak them and you get some steam first then same poof..

Re: KK Covers coming?

Wood has organic volatiles, these are what creates the smoke or actually vapor that condenses on your meat to create the smoke flavor. When the wood is heated, different materials turn to gas/vapor at different temps.. Think of the burning process as destructive distillation of wood. The first materials that turn to vapor are wood-tar creosote and tar acids. This smoke has very large particles, without oxygen it presents it's self as thick grey smoke. It readily sticks to your clothes and burns your eyes.. this does not taste good (except to Texans who design their rubs to counter/balance this bitter taste e.g. mesquite) I call this thick grey smoke, primary smoke. The vapor just after the grey smoke becomes translucent is what we're after.. This secondary organic material turns to vapor but this vapor is now translucent turning to transparent and in sunshine can appear to be blue. This is the money vapor.. If you meat is the coolest object in the grill this vapor will condense on it. This will give your meat the added flavor profiles that make food cooked with charcoal so desirable.. You want to pair your wood and charcoal flavor profiles with your meat and rubs just like you pair your wine to a meal. Hope this helps..

Komodo Prices 32" Big Bad......................$5,900 square tiles, $6,100 pebble & bronze metallic tiles 23" Gen 2.6 Ultimate.......$4,260 square tiles, $4,440 pebble & bronze metallic tiles 19" Hi-Cap Lil' Isla..........$3,400 square tiles, $3,550 pebble & bronze metallic tiles 19" Hi-Cap Table Top.....$2,840 square tiles, $2,940 pebble & bronze metallic tiles 16.5" KK Table Top.........$2,080 square tiles, $2,150 pebble & bronze metallic tiles The pebble and bronze metallic tiled grills have a surcharge.

Over- built and over-engineered just like the full sized KK grills. The button cute 16.5" is great for quick small cooks. The High Capacity 19" is a brute with amazing capacity under it's massive lid. n68806 n68805

Re: KK Cover? I have three suppliers making up different samples.. I will have covers for 23" and 32" grills as well as cabinets shipping with the next container. I'll be making a post and sending out emails to take color preferences in the next week.

Re: Lots of BBQ today Love the ABT's great grill full of finger foods..

Re: Ash Deflector Multiple standard heat deflectors for the 32" BB Standard heat deflector.. Lets hot air raise uniformly around the outside of the grill (A bit too far forward in this shot) n67534 n67535 Big cook heat deflector.. Lets hot air up only far left and right.. making a huge indirect area. You can pile meat front to back and really fill'er up... n67536 n67537 The half grill can be used above the lower for a higher shelf while grilling on the lower..

Re: Latch Position Hi Gloria' date=' I need to update the owner's manual with these photos.. Don't feel bad I assure you you are not the first. I can also assure you from the photos that your latch was not fully closed.. Right out of the crate they can be tight enough to make one think it does not go further.. The CNC cut and folded latch is much stronger than your hand.. can't break it with your hands. [img']http://komodokamado.com/forum/filedata/fetch?id=67532 As you can see the latch touches the body when fully closed.

Here's a peek at what's coming before I get it up in the store..

rewiring a 40 lb motor I talked to Joe himself and he said he is rewiring a 40 lb motor they have to spin the correct direction for KK owners. He said the 50 lb motor that spins the correct direction works great on KK grills but they overheat on metal grills. The battery powered ones are not 50 lbs and work just fine so the 40 lb should be fine.

Re: Argh.. Malicious code took down the forum... When I get a bit caught up with my life and work from the over two months I was on the road in both the States and Thailand, I will be migrating this forum over to a much more stable and sophisticated platform vBulletin. According to what I've read online ( ) the transfer should bring everything except passwords and logs. Some url's will also need to be redirected. So we will a all need to go thru the password reissue dance via email. In the mean time, if you are having issues with the forum, please clear your cache.. it helps with all things php. Please excuse the site being down all weekend..and loosing the last 11 days, I've put back most of my posts. I'll get The Charred and Scruffed post later today..

Happy Labor day to all.. September marks the 10th anniversary of KK.. I had the guys in the factory in August 2003 but took delivery of Harbinson Walker materials first week of September.. Time flies is an understatement. If there is anything I can do to help you get cooking on a KK please feel free to give me a call. ;)

Argh.. Malicious code took down the forum... Suddenly I was unable to log into the forum.. when we sent to install the backed up copies they were all corrupt with malicious code.. The latest non corrupt database was Aug 30th.. So sorry to say we lost the last 11 days. I have daily backup service off the server now and have the most advanced protection.

Argh despite having top notch security using Sitelock.com Determined hackers entered the site thru my other site HandHewnFloors.com that was on the same server and unsecured. Alarms were set off by some of the malicious code they were slipping into the site. In the last few weeks, it got so bad that every time I changed pages I would be logged off. I could not post or sometimes even browse the forum. Next they next locked me out of the admin side and I had to contact DJ to use his username and access.. Argh and double Argh.. We have moved unsecured HandHewnFloors.com off the server and they are removing the malicious code which they say is very cutting edge and sophisticated.. not some amateur messing with me. As far as I know I have no unhappy customers.. I have no real competition.. So who's messing with me? LOL

Re: New 19.5 Li'l Isla This 19.5 table top prototype has already been sent off to the mold makers.. From there everything will progress quickly because all the metalwork from the existing lil' lsla is the same and ready to go.. Here she is with her new sorta brutish high capacity lid. It's design was borrowed from the hi capacity lid of the Big Bad 32. I'm really excited about this grill.. being able to stack it above the other grills brings the shipping cost way down.

Re: Buying decision help requested! n67508 For grilling only 2-6 steaks you don't have to light of the whole charcoal basket. You can decide to use only one half or one quarter basket.. The stainless sheet also effectively shuts off the airflow on the one side which doubles the airflow on the other side. Airflow of course it how temps are controlled. It also creates a two zone cooking area which is popular with some.. An unexpected benefit for me is that it's now easy to leave your hand/arm down in the grill, trust me at 650º dome it's raging hot down below the lip ... even with up to your elbows welding gloves on it's challenging to stay down there for extended periods.. I turn the basket so the splitter is pointing to 2 and 8 o'clock and the fire is to the left and back. This is ideal for a right handed person to reach into the grill and play with their food..

Re: More Sear basket fun For grilling only 2-6 steaks you don't have to light of the whole charcoal basket. You can decide to use only one half or one quarter basket.. The stainless sheet also effectively shuts off the airflow on the one side which doubles the airflow on the other side. Airflow of course it how temps are controlled. It also creates a two zone cooking area which is popular with some.. An unexpected benefit for me is that it's now easy to leave your hand/arm down in the grill, trust me at 650º dome it's raging hot down below the lip ... even with up to your elbows welding gloves on it's challenging to stay down there for extended periods.. I turn the basket so the splitter is pointing to 2 and 8 o'clock and the fire is to the left and back. This is ideal for a right handed person to reach into the grill and play with their food..

Re: 16.5" KK Table Top is on the water! I'll get a filled with coke cans shot done.. Thanks for the kudos..

After a looong much anticipated wait.. The 16.5" KK Table Top is on the water! Net weight 208 lbs Crated 264 lbs Square Tiles $2,080 Pebble Tiles $2,150 Bronze Tiles $2,180 n68778 n68777 n68776 n68772 n68771 n68769 n68770 n68773

More like survival training than a holiday.. After the wedding/renewing our vows we jumped in the car and drove east.. Hit Palm desert and it was 117º and 40% humidity.. Took the long road thru Needles which was 122º Hottest in 7 years.. Got into Las Vegas and it was 115º Walking the 150+ yards between the bigger hotels was challenging to say the least. Took the road by Hoover dam to Williams for the night and then to the south rim of the Grand Canyon.. Spent the day and walked the top part of Bright Angel Trail... Argh.. Going down was easy Then off to Page AZ and into Antelope Canyon.. It looked just like Nat Geo.. Will post photos later.. Continued up to Grand Junction and ate at Famous Dave's BBQ... I'm sure he's a great chief but the food at his place was a joke.. Bought 6oz of burnt ends for $9 that was cubed.. and had not bark! Had not even reached 190 to become stringy. My son was very proud that my Q was SOO much better.. Finally pulled into Vail and met up with a good friend.. ate great food, drank better wine and had a great time. Finally had to drive down the hill to Denver to drop the rental car.. Was a bit surprised when my milage total came to 2166 miles.. yes I had an unlimited plan.. Flew to Orange County airport in Newport and then drove up to Montecito and finally was able to stop and rest for a few days.. Went to a family reunion in Oxnard on the way back to Laguna where I went to my 35th High school reunion.. Trying to figure out how we are going to get all the stuff we have acquired this last month back to Indo.. I'm flying out Monday night.. Been a great trip but I feel like I've been to war.. Thank you all for your patience and less than stellar communications with me recently.. I'll be available on a regular basis again soon..

Re: Re-Newed my Vows and on a US Road-trip If this is a holiday I need to get home and back to work to get some sleep! After the wedding we went to Palm Springs (it was 117º) then up thru Needles on the back two land roads to Las Vegas.. Spend a could days there battling the heat.. Took the kids to Cirque du Soliel's Mystere.. the original one Still great after all these years.. Then off to Hoover dam thru Williams and up into the Grand Canyon.. My hotel's internet was out so I was parking outside another hotel in the middle of the night hi jacking their Wifi signal finally made a deal with the hotel next door.. Then off to Antelope Canyon.. Yup right out of a National Geo mag.. Great shots will post later, I'm soo tired I can't see straight..