DennisLinkletter

I'm all for workers getting fair pay but in this economy I think it's absolutely asinine for for them to shut down the port.. You can imagine how pleased I was to learn that after my first four days of warehouse storage at the port they will be fining/charging me $200 a day for storage.. regardless of the reason. I'm guessing this is going to hurt.. The Associated Press Published: Friday, December 2, 2011 at 6:35 p.m. In a statement, members of the Office Clerical Unit of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63 started picketing at noon Friday to protest wages and outsourcing of jobs. The Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Employers Association says in a statement that it is disappointed workers are striking, saying the union's latest offer contains unreasonable demands, including a 12 percent pay hike, a 26 percent increase in pensions, 52 additional employees, and limits on technology that employers can use. The employers say they offer guaranteed job security, current wages, health benefits and pensions. From my Agent.. Subject: IMPORTANT-Los Angeles Port Closure * IMPORTANT * The Los Angeles port operations have been suspended due to a labor dispute concerning the clerical staff. This has come without any prior warning. It began at the Yusen terminal and then spread to all other terminals with drivers being asked to vacate the port area and no entry permitted. There is no formal notification or announcement of a strike at this time but operations have been suspended. Below is also a circular from APL that seems to speak about the situation, but not acknowledging the strike. From: "APL Advisory" Date: December 3, 2011 7:15:23 AM GMT+08:00 To: "undisclosed-recipients" Subject: OCU Work Action December 2, 2011 OCU Work Action Dear APL Valued Customer: More than a year and a half ago, our company began negotiations for a new labor contract with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63 Office Clerical Unit, which represents our office workers in the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbor area. No agreement was reached by the contract expiration date of June 30, 2010, and our office workers have been working without a contract for well over a year while negotiations continued. Last fall, the International ILWU officers and other ILWU locals joined the negotiations. We recently presented a complete proposal for a new contract. The ILWU rejected our proposal. On Wednesday, November 30, 2011, the ILWU declared that contract negotiations were at an end, and that it would be “exercising its right to take economic action” against the company. The union did not specify the nature or timing of the economic action it would take. Throughout this labor dispute, we have worked diligently to avoid any disruption to operations and reach a fair labor contract, understanding that harmonious labor relations benefit the harbor community and shipping industry as a whole. At this juncture, we would like you to know three important things: 1) We value your support and our longstanding business relationship; 2) We will continue to do everything we can to meet your service needs, without interruption; and 3) We have negotiated in good faith with the ILWU, and hope it will reconsider and accept our complete proposal for a fair and reasonable labor agreement. As an industry, we are facing continuing challenges in this economy. It remains important to us to promote efficiency and productivity within our operations in the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbor area and to maintain the quality customer service you expect from us. We will continue to keep you posted on developments. For additional information regarding this matter, please contact your APL Account Manager or Customer Support via phone at 1-800-999-7733 or via email at [email protected]. Sincerely, APL Customer Support

Re: kk tool accessories Tried that but the local gloves are all "Asian" sized and would only help US ladies cooking on a KK. The ones I bought at ACE are even small for the local market.. and not insulated at all...

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Re: kk tool accessories A pair of welding gloves is actually better for this..

Re: Newbie question: Difference of KK and BGE Kamado is a Japanese word for an earthenware cooking vessel. There are many Kamados on the market, Primo Kamado, Imperial Kamado, California Kamado, the Big Green Egg is also a Kamado. These other Kamados are all basically glazed ceramic pots with hinged straps and airflow control components. They have a large firebox which protects the glazed outer body from the high temps from the charcoal. Generally they have very low quality fabrication and materials. Primarily using powder painted carbon steel components and grills, these components are pretty much at the bottom of the quality index. About 8 years ago, I started on the Komodo Kamado project. We took the product in a radically new direction from all the other companies by using the worlds most durable materials for high temperature containment, refractory cements. We then took it one step further by adding two layers of actual insulation. This along with casting the straps into the body, making it self opening, using the finest methods of fabrication and only 304 stainless steel put Komodo Kamado into a class of it's own. Just the weight difference tells the story. Typically glazed pot ceramic grills weigh about 140-150 lbs total.. In comparison, the KK has a a whopping 82lbs of 304 Stainless steel and weighs 588lbs.. There is also a huge difference in performance/heat holding ability which effects the food that comes out of the grill. Please take the time and read this review.. I'm embarrassed to say it's probably better than my website for the details.. Naked Whiz Review

Re: The coffee wood smoke was over the top. Plans to.. This last container I sent only few boxes to get some feedback on it.. It was a last minute thing. More coming on this next box..

Re: SF Bay Area Buy Easy peasy lemon squeezy.. Get me a zip code, box total and I'll fire off the invoices.. Thank you for your business..

Shameless Plug! Re: Thanksgiving 2011 by mguerra » Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:51 pm The Alton Brown/ Dennis Linkletter turkey was the best ever. The combo of brine and coffee wood smoke was over the top. I also iced the breast and cooked it hot and fast. The result was the juiciest breast meat we have ever experienced. "Dry" is not a word that you would apply to this white meat!!! My plan was to cook at 500 for the first half hour and then back down to 350. Well, it was more like a 450 plus or minus for about two plus hours. When the deep breast meat was 161, I pulled it off the fire, foiled, toweled and coolered. I never measured the deep thigh, contrary to most suggestions. Did the long rest in the cooler add to the tenderizing? Maybe. It rested about six hours, and was piping hot when I broke it out, too hot to handle, really. Partly that's due to the Yeti cooler. We aren't skin eaters, so I did not do a prolonged air dry. The dark meat just fell off the bone, it was so well cooked. So pulling it at breast temp 161 did not result in under done dark meat. All in all the best turkey we have ever had. The coffee wood smoke is hard to describe, aromatic, mild, flavorful; you just have to try it. Michael Guerra,M.D. Kerrville, Texas

CoCo Char arriving every 4-5 weeks. There are palettes shipped with 28 boxes but they've stacked 56 on a palette too.. Any number is fine, no problem with a 35 or 20 box palette.. Eventually I'll need to charge for the palette itself on the less than 28 box loads.

Re: Thanksgiving 2011 The flavor you know as coffee is of course from roasted coffee beans.. This wood has it's own magical flavor profile.. The secondary smoke even in large quantities is very smooth.. As our good Doc said, "The coffee wood smoke is hard to describe, aromatic, mild, flavorful; you just have to try it." I can over smoke a chicken with every other wood I've tried, not with this coffee wood. Maybe someday I'll be known as the guy who introduced coffee as a smoking wood and charcoal to the BBQ world..

Re: KK CoCo Char Review Thank you for the Feedback and kudos..

Re: SF Bay Area Buy Heylo Matt, Welcome to the forum.. 1 pallet to San Jose, CA 95112 To terminal or business with lift gate or loading dock $119 To residence requiring lift gate truck $140 Great savings on charcoal delivery if you purchase a Komodo Kamado with it!

My family, I and all of us at Komodo Kamado would like to wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for all your support over the years. We really appreciate it. Komodo Kamado would not be where it is today without this forum. Thank you.. Thank you.. Thank you..

Re: Review is posted.... Thank you VERY BIG Doug.. Great work as always.. Naked Whiz Review of 2011 KK CoCo Charcoal

Re: Freebie Throw a big chunk on the hottest part of the coals.. let it catch on fire and get hot.. close your lid. It's a big chunk so it will create lots of smoke.. this first smoke is grey, acrid and nasty..(all wood's primary smoke is like this;-) Open every 5 minutes or so to vent the grey nasty smoke until it just starts to clear, turn translucent and a bit blue. This is the secondary "home run" smoke.. Put you meat in and leave it with low airflow and a low temp for the first bit of your cooks to better saturate you meat.. Since I'm only targeting the meat with the secondary smoke you can and need to use these big chunks.. I love, love, love this coffee flavor profile.. Using only the secondary smoke you can't over smoke things with this wood.. This is why the big BBQ joints burn wood down and then add the burning charcoal to their smokers rather than to use charcoal and smoking wood... more of this secondary smoke. My goal is to carbonize only to loose the primary nasties and leave as much of this secondary smoke/volatiles in my coffee wood charcoal..

Re: In preparation for the KK Heylo Greg and welcome to the forum.. I'm really looking forward to getting some shots of my first paired grill and worktable.. The cobalt blue table I posted a while back is for him..

Re: top hat spring This problem has been corrected with a less aggressive/steep thread angle..

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Re: Thanksgiving 2011 It would be easy to do an empty run to confirm but I'm guessing a heat 500 soaked body shut down.. would settle at about 350 for long enough to finish the cook.. You could also throw on a couple sprigs of rosemary for smoke and it would stay there the term of the cook.

Re: Daughters third bday today As they look pretty BIG I'm guessing 5lbs per rack that's a whopping 45lbs of uncooked ribs sitting there.. Glad we over build, over engineer everything..

Re: The KK has landed Heylo Ken, Thank you for all the kudos.. I of course understand well all the hurdles involved and the necessary ones are there for very specific reasons. With the fall of the US $ in the last two years which hit 24% at one point, we were forced to really count and recount our beans .. One of the piles of beans that did not add to the delivered product was the credit card processing and bank transfer fees to get the funds over to Indonesia. The plan was to do everything we could to not have to raise the cost of the grills. Years ago this would have been impossible but with an impeccable online reputation what harm would there be in asking? I still offer the credit card processing to those who would feel better using it. Paypal has it's problems, I do maintain a paypal account but have issues with them after they froze an account of mine and held over $25k for 7 weeks "for security issues" which were never disclosed.. (google "paypal sucks" for more details) I have a good processing company that will transfer into overseas accounts but it's expensive (5%) and usually takes about two weeks for me to get the funds. When all is said and done more than 8 out of 10 of my customers send me a transfer and seem to have no problems with it. The internet is great for dispensing information both good and bad.. The bad news travels faster so I'm assuming this is the reason for folks willingness to sent me the transfers. Great sales this year have let us keep the prices at our 2009 prices. Thank you for the apology but not necessary, I completely understand when customers get the week before Christmas pangs for their new toys.. And yes the entire offloading, Customs and now Homeland Security clearance is unpredictable. This lack of control makes it very frustrating for both myself and understandably my customers. I always try to look the other way thinking it will speed things along.. One can definately get the waiting for the pot to boil blues here.. And then I have to hand my children off to the trucking companies and basically shit happens en-route.. Please excuse my language but this shoe fits so well.. So I hold my customer's hand as much as possible, make the best of the system in place, keep everybody updated and it all seems to work out.. Pretty amazing that this can all be done from the other side of the world and it actually runs pretty smoothly.. Thank you all for your support.

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These are amazingly low rates I'm getting and passing directly to you. Nobody but nobody can get these prices.. Upper management stepped in here to help me with this business.. they will continue giving me these low prices on the charcoal as long as I continue to ship my grills with them. As you can see there is a minimum delivery cost that changes over 300lbs Delivery To: Tomball, TX 77377 6 boxes/120 lbs to residence with lift-gate $167 10 boxes/200 lbs to residence with lift-gate $167 15 boxes/300 lbs to residence with lift-gate $167 Cost moves over 300lbs 20 boxes/400 lbs to residence with lift-gate $203 28 boxes/560 lbs to residence with lift-gate $222 To Tomball, TX 77377 Terminal or business with loading dock/forklift 6 boxes/120 lbs $109 10 boxes/200 lbs $109 15 boxes/300 lbs $133 20 boxes/400 lbs $158 28 boxes/560 lbs $158 The nice thing about the charcoal is that it can be delivered to terminal or a business and then taken to residence by car, SUV or truck.. The to Terminal or business with loading dock/forklift can be over $100 cheaper for east coast deliveries..

Re: Full size KK cabinet with Cobalt Blue tile insert I'm sure you're not thinking about lighting or tossing burning coals up on this table top.. I'm confidant that they can handle any cooking related temps.. The insulation material is designed for spike temps over 500º.. The tiles were glazed at super high temps so they are completely safe..