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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..

Re: Pic of my Butt Looking Good...

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.

Re: Two Turkeys - Will They Fit?

Re: Two Turkeys - Will They Fit?

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..

Re: KK extruded CoConut shell charcoal is Stateside There are two things you want to avoid.. One is having all the airflow cut off the other is leaving areas on the floor of the charcoal basket open.. The air of course takes the path of least resistance and does not go thru your charcoal.. So for the too much I'd say just don't set them side by side like a log cabin.. Too little maybe leave some lump under the coco so the airflow coming thru is uniform.

Re: First Burn of KK Extruded Coconut Charcoal Thanks for the kudos.. I just bang the pieces against each other. It takes a bit of a whack but theY will break each other. If you are going to build a high temp fire with them, you will need to put in enough to cover the floor of the fire basket and then some.. if you leave an open area the airflow takes the path of least resistance around the charcoal and does not really give you enough air. (unless you cheat and use my hair drier trick) So cover the floor of the basket, then make a little mountain to light and you'll be good to go.. Thanks again for taking the time to write about it..

Re: Damn you, Dennis.... One of my favorite Murphy's laws... If it jams - force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

Hey Hopalong...

Re: Full size KK cabinet with Cobalt Blue tile insert Whenever someone wants one.. I build the granite ones for ready stock. I now build the tile ones to order..

Re: BBQGuru New Product I forgot to close the sliding door on my Guru blower and melted the fan's blades almost a year ago.. I could easily get a new computer fan but I don't feel the need.. I use my guru as a quality cabled thermometer only. I understand why other grills need controllers but KK's just don't have any with temp stability. What I really want is a reasonably priced wifi unit for just to monitor meat and grill temp.. with a proper thermocouple and industrial grade armored/braided cables.

Re: Alice our new puppy is in the house! I Googled and clicked into to a female dog naming site.. The second name was Alice and the two kids screamed ALICE! I thought this was too easy.. Alice it was... What did we do pre-Google?

Re: Alice our new puppy is in the house!

Re: KK is here and first cook pics! Congrats on your first cook.. I'm assuming it was a hit at the party.. Ahh.. the grills look so purdy when they are new..

TLC for Charcoal? The pieces can be smacked into each other to break them into smaller pieces.. this creates a clean break without creating any smalls. The paper towel is there just incase the box gets heated and the 7-8% moisture condenses on the plastic bag it won't drip onto the charcoal which in theory could be problematic.. It's probably overkill but a few cents of prevention can't hurt. The charcoal is blown clean of dust before it's packed.

Re: New Guru plug design finalized and in production It just snaps into the Guru inducer tube which is built into your lower fan faceplate (since 6/09) For earlier KKs it fits into the inducer tube that you received from Guru and tapped into your KK faceplate. As you may have discovered the silicone plug from Guru is not really designed for high temps..