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I agree......that color is really nice looking! Great find!!!

That is one good looking cooker......Congratulations!

Had to laugh at this comment................I resemble that also!!!!!! When I first started cooking on the KK, I must have open and closed the top vent 20 times per cook. Now it is pretty much "set it and forget it". Good first cook!!!!!!!

Nice cook mk1 !!!

Welcome & Congratulations Tom! Sweet find!! If your new grill is going to sit outside, Sunbrella is the choice to make to protect your investment. A couple of my Sunbrella boat tarps are 15 years + and still look new.

Geo, Great news! Very happy for you...............as you are really going to enjoy that new cooker!!y It is one great looking 23" !!!!! (Smart move letting the Mrs. pick out the color) We share your excitement and can't wait to see your grill in action.

Good for you Newg4. You will really enjoy your purchase!!!!!

They replaced my cheap thermo-pop no questions asked! Just sent a new one. FYI

Kicked Old Man Winter's Butt !!!!!! Big time.......................

Really cool that your daughter(s) are thinking about other ways to use/eat your creations!!!!

Great photos also!!!

Big Welcome From Upstate New York!!!! If you can swing it...............Please do yourself a favor and start with the KK. My three other lonely kamado's are proof positive of the difference a KK makes.

We gave it a try yesterday for the Daytona 500 race dinner............... Here it is stuffed with the ricotta & spinach: http:// Covered with seasoning and cheddar cheese ready for the grill: http:// Ready for the dinner table: http:// Comments: Cooked this meal at 250*F with apple & peach smoking wood. Very simple and very tasty! I used a little too much smoking wood, as the ricotta & spinach really absorbed the smoke. The next time we would spice the sliced chicken before adding the ricotta & spinach or marinate the chicken before doing the cook. The toppings were excellent but the chicken needed a little extra zing. Fun cook and the presentation was excellent (photos do not do it credit)

Great cook and wonderful family pictures! Many thanks for sharing!! My family never had an ethnic "food culture" when growing up....Kraft Macaroni & Cheese was a treat for us. My first daughter married into a family of great cooks from Puerto Rico and Southern Georgia.....talk about tasty family get-together s. My second daughter married into an Irish Clan.....the family food is great also and they sure like their whiskey. Fantastic to see your family food. Jon

This looks really good.............anyone try anything like this yet???? Hasselback Chicken 40 Second Video (deleted from YouTube for some reason???) Facebook

I "blame" Bosco and MacKenzie for my KK purchase................I mean "credit" them !!!!!!! Ha!!!!

Great story!!!!!

Congratulations!!!!!!!!

I'm 100% for this change. I have a wire basket on another kamado and it is my favorite option. Take the basket out......shake off the dust/ash....and you are ready to cook again. The "smalls" stay in the basket and not all over the ground or in the bottom of the cooker. If it was available......I would order it today. The current basket is one of the few flaws I see in the current KK design. My 2 cents. ckreef, on 13 Feb 2016 - 04:21 AM, said: Totally needed. That is the one thing I thought needed improving from day one. I dump straight from the bag and stir my lump between cooks never really emptying the basket. Eventually there is a lot of smalls in the bottom. When I finally go to clean out the ash I have to manually clear any smalls from the sides otherwise they sort of get jammed between the side rods and firebox making it hard to pull the basket out. It's an improvement and adding a couple more circles of SS around the perimeter can't be a big cost difference so why would you not want to make the improvement? These type of little improvements is what will always keep the KK miles ahead of other kamados. Charles - Prometheus 16.5", Cassiopeia 19" TT

Hello PRippley...................thought of you and your new camping grill; We are down in Florida this week checking up on Mother Dear (86 years young and she is down here for 3 months).....anyway we bought our portable camping grill with us. We were only going to cook for 3 and some how it grew to be 7 people. All the little "gadgets" we already had for the cooker did not help us any, so.......................We went to the store and bought a disposable cooking grate and formed it to become the second level cooking grate. MacGyver would be proud!!!! Too funny what you can do to make the little grills work for you in a pinch. Thought of you and had to share!!!! Three steaks on top and three steaks on the bottom. http:// http://

Roger, I don't do a lot of grilling on my KK (mostly low & slow) but a number of the members on the forum do and have no problem getting up to grilling temps in short period of time. I believe the difference and reason why is that all the air flow into the KK's is directed thru the lump and can not go past the burning charcoal, around or thru the holes in fire box. I'm sure others will chime in on this subject. Ken's table design is a classic but you can never have enough storage for all the extra goodies!!!!! Have fun with all the info. I'm trying to decide on the 32" KK or the new 42" KK???? Decisions.......decisions Jon

Hello Roger!!! Welcome from a fellow Primo owner and member of the Primo forum. Fair warning.................... I ended up buying a KK after joining this forum. I still own both my Primo's and enjoy cooking on them but I do have to say after cooking on the KK there is no comparison in quality and performance. I plan on getting another KK in the near future to replace my Primo XL. Will not say anything bad about my Primo's or my Kamado Joe Jr. but the difference in cooking on the KK is amazing............not to mention how great they look. Many great people on this site and they are fantastic BBQ chefs. Join in and have some fun. Jon B.

Very nice looking bird!!!!!!

Hey Rick and Welcome!!! Congratulations on ordering your KK. You have best the best kamado out there and probably saved your self a bunch of money in the long run........as many of us have bought other kamado's before buy our KK's. (me included) If you like electronic gadgets you will probably love the temperature control units. I have one and have only used it twice. I don't trust the gadgets and wake up anyway to check on them during my over night cooks. I finally said.........why bother. After a short while, you will figure out how to keep your KK at a steady temp for many hours. I recently did a 12 hour cook and never adjusted the vents after they were set. The cooker only varied 5* both ways from the desired / set temp. That being said.......there are a bunch of chef's that would not do without one. You have the right idea to learn how to operate the KK manually first. It will help later on if you do get a temp control unit (top vent settings). You are in for a bunch of fun times to come!!!! Jon PS - Nice looking dog!!!