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Re: Big Apple BBQ Block Party - KK Debut Chris and Jeffery Steingarten…writer, food critic, judge of the TV Show Iron Chef IMG_0665.jpg[/attachment:3fxrjjcx]

Re: Florida Charcoal 2011 Is this page limited to members who have dog photos as their avatar?

Re: A Testimonial Thank you so much for taking the time to write such an eloquent testimonial and for the many kudos also. While there are many references here in the Happy Campers area, there are not many current ones. In fact there was only 11 left in all of 2010. Anybody on the fence.. Nudge, nudge.. Now's as good a time as any I don't think anything in the website or forum helps people take the leap of faith and pull the trigger more than these posts. Thanks again for your wonderful post Edward.

Re: Argh.. Haas Avocados @ $10.42 a pound... And it's in the middle of the winter.. so they are probably also imported.

Next up the even more ridiculous price of fresh cherries! Next up the even more ridiculous price of fresh cherries!

Re: Argh.. Haas Avocados @ $10.42 a pound... It did take a while to get used to hearing a X million for this and that.. Everything is millions because a million rupiah is now $115. Buying a car makes you sound like Bill Gates shopping!

Re: Argh.. Haas Avocados @ $10.42 a pound... It did take a while to get used to hearing a X million for this and that.. Everything is millions because a million rupiah is now $115. Buying a car makes you sound like Bill Gates shopping!

Re: Argh.. Haas Avocados @ $10.42 a pound... Absolutely.. One went into a salad for a dinner party.. one for guac.. and one for my sandwiches. I love best foods on lightly toasted whole wheat with Haas Avo with a pinch of Lawry's season salt sandwiches. I used to almost live on them the last week of the month in college because I had a big tree in the back yard. Just writing about them is making me jones for one.. with some grated jack cheese barely heated in the microwave but the avo cold from the fridge.. Ahh love the contrast.. Ok I'm off to buy just one more today...

Sometimes I crave for certain imported goods and really get smacked at the checkout.. Here I bought three non-descript Haas avocados for Rp 199,500 per kilo that's $22.93 per kilo or $10.42 a pound.. Basically $25.00 for three medium sized avocados.. To put that in perspective, I buy that beautiful AU imported wagyu wanna be Tri Tip for Rp 119,000 per kilo. IMG_2222.jpg[/attachment:3lrrh0su] IMG_2221.jpg[/attachment:3lrrh0su]

Re: KK black swan fairytale.. Sorry, Dennis. You probably already hooked a few people! That's called chum.. I gotta land them with some other bait!

Re: Whatcha think? OTB Shaped Heat Deflector

Re: How to make a huge indirect cooking area No problem with the foil I used to about 380-400º dome. My deflector was soaked wet and the grill hot so I passed on using it.

Re: Whatcha think? OTB Shaped Heat Deflector DJ reminded me that the mind is the first thing to go.. Then pointed out the fact that I've had this great idea before.. Seems that good ideas are repetitive.. or possibly just redundant? Click on this: OTB shaped heat deflector - Oct 2006 I'm also thinking that a large OTB shaped Baking Stone that just fits inside the handles of the upper would give one maximum baking real estate on the upper...

A round heart deflector will of course not fill a modified heart shaped area... So does it not make sense to have an OTB shaped heat deflector? This is a photoshopped image.. The prototype was made to be the exact size of the inside of the heat deflectors outside/top flat area. About 15" deep and 16" wide. KK-OTB-deflector.jpg[/attachment:2q4lwv1h]

Re: Three Extruder Machines are in the House! Please feel free to send me an email but I won't know my cost of goods until we actually crank out a few tons..

Re: Three Extruder Machines are in the House! Break um open... Have a party! No my hammer mill and ribbon mixer components are still in the shop being made up..

Re: How to make a huge indirect cooking area I had set the grill on the ground and the kids playing in the pool splashed it.. I think the chlorine or something in the pool water gives the stainless a rudy semi rusty color. I've seen red drops on the front draft door before. It comes of with stainless cleaner.

As you know the indirect area is only as large as your heat deflector or drip pan.. Here is an easy trick to make almost all of the main grill shielded. Just wrap a strip of foil from front to rear on the lower grill As you can see only a small strip left and right stays open Just to show how much more space is up top (the rudy color is from pool water) I did add a drip pan on top of the foil to catch the bulk of oil This is plenty of airflow for 400º ;)

Re: Three Extruder Machines are in the House! I know better than to commit to a date so, I'll just say mid to late spring..

Re: Introduction, a bit late and my new love Welcome to the forum, thanks for sharing. Love to hear you consider it the most beautiful thing in your life, after my dog and second wife. Thanks for the Kudos!

Re: New HandHewnFloors.com Site up and Running It's basically free to the States because it can piggy back in KK containers which are only half full.. Customers only need to pay trucking from Carson, CA.

I lost my HHF website when I had my computer stolen last spring.. I had taken it down to change where it was hosted just before my laptop was stolen. I got caught up with life and never got it back up until this week New HandHewnFloors site Server is down..  Copy of site is here

Re: Three Extruder Machines are in the House! The extended slump in the economy resulted in the shipping companies taking 10% of their fleet out of service and slowing down the ships by a couple of days to reduce costs. This resulted in all the ships being overbooked.. So then they increased the rates of course and started taking boats out of mothballs as not to leave money on the table. I'm pretty sure we'll be full fleet in no time.. One 40' box now costs over $6,000 landed west coast.

This took forever to actually come to fruition but persistence payed off and they guy finally sold them as he promised last spring.. IMAGE REMOVED The machine at the rear with the orange top has only produced 5 tons, the middle machine has never even had a motor bolted up to it.. the front machine has only been set up.. They are all dirty with charcoal dust but we're now set up to produce lots of charcoal if sales lead us down that road.. As I've explained before the problem is that the producers of the carbonized shell are all simple villagers who have no idea what they are doing.. Mostly just burning down shells to carbonize in 55 gallon drums and then covering to extinguish. They always under-carbonize because they do not want the material to become too fragile because smalls (which are easily mixed with impurities) sell for less and of course they sell by weight. Most comes in between 12-25% ash but it's also common to see still brown un-carbonized pieces. This is why all the producers of coconut shell charcoal in Asia's quality is so inconsistent. My plan is to re-heat/re-carbonize the shell to guarantee I've burned off most of the volatiles and to get a product with about 4% ash. I'll definitely loose charcoal doing this but it's the only way to make a premium consistent/uniform product. I'd love to be able to start with fresh shells but the transportation would be be cost prohibitive as the carbonization process reduces volume by about 70%.. Would not be very green either. My hammer mill and ribbon mixer are being made up as I type..

KK black swan fairytale.. Please do not fall in love with this color as it is a collection of the darkest Autumn Nebula tiles that are too dark to use with the standard Autumn Nebula tiles.. These are basically the rejects from many, many boxes. Just like the all brown terra blue grills.. Sort of a KK black swan fairytale..