Steve M

I use a wire mesh mat for the small stuff and it survives the dishwasher just fine. They are cheap~$5 or so

That last gooey pick is awesome. Love it!

What a wonderful idea

Is your air pump adjustable? It will be interesting to see how folks use the various settings for these. Also a lot of options with chips, small chunks, or pellets.

Gorgeous photo

Search for adjustable air aquarium pumps on amazon and a few show up. They don't all list air flow rates but some do. I also saw several silicon tubing sources on amazon. I believe the 3/16" inside diameter tubing should work fine. I received my cold smoker already but haven't ordered one of these yet. I probably wouldn't try this here until the weather cools a bit anyway.

Your husband is right. Looks perfect!

I measured the outside diameter of the air inlet for the cold smoker and got 25/128 which is basically 3/16". I believe that corresponds to most aquarium tube internal diameters.

Gorgeous cook. All of it

Great job Shuley, Did you season the eggplant with anything?

Thumbs up on the calzone!

Thanks everyone. I'm noticing a trend on my cooks when I use the coffee charcoal. Not only does it have a wonderful aroma during the cook, it really imparts incredible flavor to the food. I don't want to run out of this stuff.

Made some pulled pork nachos tonight using the leftovers from the weekend. This may be the tastiest thing I have cooked on the kk so far. Certainly the best tasting nachos I ever ate. Used costco tortilla chips, pulled pork, pickled jalapeños, mexican cheese blend and Monterey jack. topped off with freshly made pico de gallo (using smoked tomatoes) and sour cream

thanks, I'll try that next time

Is there enough room on the 23" to have a smoke pot and lower grill?

I have about 4-5 cooks on the new kk under my belt and have a couple of questions. this weekend, I cooked a 11+ lb bone in boston butt. I started the kk around 7pm Friday night and opened my vents to the position that I learned would give me about 225-235. It settled in around 225 but took about 2 hours to get there. I put the butt on 4-5 hours after the initial start and the temp promptly dropped to below 200 and stayed there for about 45 minutes. I didn't want to go to bed with it hanging at such a low temp so I opened the vent slightly more to where I thought it would give me 250 and went to bed. I got up the next morning and it was 254 but when I viewed the graph, it was a very slow rise of about 4.5 - 5 hours to get there. I could tell it stabilized but I was thinking it would get there much sooner. Do you see similar results and do you compensate for it somehow? I think it easily added a couple of hours to the cook. second question - I ordered and prepared a smoke pot for my cook but when I put it in a full charcoal basket, it wasn't completely obvious how to place a drip pan so I could have an indirect cook. Instead, I went with the foil pouch full of chunks and squeezed it down to place my drip pan on top of the pouch. How do you do this for an indirect cook?

Your cook looks absolutely delicious. I would love to go to TFL if ever in that area. I have hit the Bouchon bakery in NYC and it was delicious.

I think they both look pretty dang good.

Looks great. Love those shrimp rolls

Those look really good. I've never tried meatballs on a grill, I need to.

Your accessory list looks good. Sort of wish I had picked up a second basket. I have a galvanized trashcan that is doing that duty for slightly used charcoal. I ordered 15 boxes of coco char and 25 of coffee char. The coco char lives up to its reputation for low and slow cooks - it seems to last forever. The coffee char has a really nice flavor in the couple of things I have cooked with it. I expect I will get some withdrawal pains when I get down to a couple of boxes of each. I would have ordered a couple of hundred pounds more at least if I did it over again.

Dang, I haven't had dinner yet. I could chow down on that and get seconds.

Great review and I would like to see some pics of future cooks

Good looking bird, Hope you feel better soon

With help that good, you should take your time getting home [emoji3] That's impressive