Some keys to the kooker
As you may have figured from the user name I have chosen kamadodon is my father. I am the big (and most often poorly dressed) guy in most of the pictures. I would like to add my own thanks to Dennis for providing such a great product for all of us to use. I would also like like to thank Dad and Charlie for the taking the pictures. Somehow we managed to get very few shots of them and none I see here. Dad gave me the bug for ceramic cooking when I was a kid and the first house warming present he gave me in 2003 was his old Kamado. My wife would like to thank him for the many times we have had pork since then as well as the eau de pecanwood I seem to constantly wear.
I would like to mention that the Pork shoulder you see on the Komodo is 23.7 lbs. I have figured I could easily cook 100 lbs. of meat using the upper grill. If anyone has tried that let me know how it came out as I may try to cook several per kooker next year.
As for the transportation it was actually quite easy. 800lbs of man can lift the 450+ lbs of kamado into a 14 x 7 work trailer where they were securely strapped with a 1000 lb. ratchet strap to the wall. We were extremely nervous and covered them with moving blankets just in case anything else we brought down rubbed up against them. The Komodos were fine when we got there and hadn't budged. We were a little worried about the bumpiness of the trailer, but these things fit so tightly together there was obviously little, if any, vibration as they rode. I think every Komodo owner should lift them up just once to "feel the quality in engineering". They are so much more sturdy and solid than the kamado I now have as a hand-me-down.
I am sure there are a hundred things I have failed to mention about the advantage the Komodos gave us but I will certainly begin at least a semi-consistent posting as I have passed that first kamado onto my cousin and once again received dad's hand-me-down with his upgrade to a Komodo Kamado. I will have one of the Komodos soon. I really think my upgrading is coming to a pinnacle with the look and performance these "machines" have reached.
