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The spiny lobster are indeed pretty tasty. I met a fellow 40 years ago that was farming eastern Maine lobster in an old sardine cannery in Monterey Calif. He had thousands of small fry in the giant commercial processing tanks and I cannot help but imagine that some of the microscopic youngsters escaped to live in Monterey Bay and thrive. That would throw the entire ecosystem into a dither with a predator with those large pincers in the area. In any case it was an interesting endeavor to grow the lobster for sale to restaurants.

That is a pretty unique looking critter! A Moreton Bay Bug??? Does it only live in shallow waters with mud bottoms? I just Googled it, "Slippery Lobster or Oriental Lobster" found in the far western Pacific and Indian Oceans and into the Red Sea. Never eaten one, can you discribe how different it would be compared to the Spiny Pacific Lobster?

Dennis, check this out. Very crude sketch but I think you get the idea of a motor specific mount. It might work on the 30 LB motor as well, but the 50 LB motor will hold/spin two (2) 20+ pound turkeys. The locking pins with spring loading to hold the pins in place can be long enough to reach the top of the motor so fingers do not have to be in a deep well. The two adjusting screws for motor height would put pressure on the bottom of the motor housing to lift the motor to the correct height and they could have their own plate to rested on the motor bottom (I did not draw it). There could be variations on this but the idea is to be able to slide the motor onto the mount and just pin it in place easily.

Hey guys, check this out. We used to catch lots of these in the waters off of Newport Beach California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_spiny_lobster In this link you can see the many different varieties without pincers, although some people have tossed in photos of the eastern lobsters. https://www.google.com/search?q=pacific+lobster&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizsae265rRAhUJ5WMKHTp5BRcQsAQINQ&biw=1368&bih=867&dpr=1.09 They get very large and have no pincers. And no "Bullshit", there are several variations of the Pacific lobster, you know, the ones without pincers, and they are different sized and colored and a bit different shaped but the main distinction is the pincers. The guys in Maine (eastern USA) would argue vociferously about the fact that THEY have the only lobsters; take that up with them

Dennis, I believe it is the 50LB I purchased and the reason I got it was that it looked so much better to have that sleek looking motor on the side of the KK rather than the tin can looking smaller model. After all we KK Owners are buying the KK for more than its performance, appearance is a consideration, plus the housing is easier to clean. I will make a sketch; wish I had AutoCad running on this Mac... UPDATE: I was wrong, the motor I have is rated at 85 Pounds, but it still looks better

Pacific lobsters, and one reason they are called "Bugs". They have no pincers, but don't get your hand involved with that tail! I used to live in a place that had a very active lobster (bug) factory/cannery. The lobster were sorted from the traps when they got the boats back into the cannery and all the undersized bugs were thrown into the bay!! You can imagine that the bay was full of those things after 75 years of that practice. The catching of those things was easy back in the day (1965), probably illegal now.

I understand the idea and used it for years in my other Kamado style cookers. It works, but the main reason I got the roti as to be able to flip things 180 degrees without using a spatula and breaking up things like fish or poultry skin when I tried to flip them. Yeah, I know, I am lazy and I love tools and gadgets if they make life easier. Sometimes I give up and just live with the gadgets and at other times I give up and sell them, like the many espresso machines I have owned over the past 10 years. The things that I do not like about the roti system is the way the motor mounts to the KK. I realize that the mounting bracket is designed the way it is to be able to accept different motors but with that said why not make it for 1 type of motor and then make the mount more user friendly. I can envision a mount that used no tools and had 2 locking pins pushed down from the top and had finger rings on one end to pull the pins out when taking it off. Right now the roti baskets are designed for chunky things but think about a flat basket that could be rotated 180 degrees for fish and not continuously spun.

Underwater ceramic technicians, interesting description of that pressure washer in a box. I have a degree in electronics but I chose to live without grid electricity for 20 years and instead I generated my own. No dishwasher then, or blender or food processor so I got used to doing all kitchen work by hand, but it did generate a desire in me to make things more simple. I miss my wood fired cookstove/range and I miss the quiet.

Now that looks tasty!

Congratulations! We hope you enjoy many, many more happy years, and this time may the force, uhhh, the KK will be with you

A crash landing would have resulted in the worst stench you have ever smelled! My mother cremated a chicken once when she fell asleep on the couch with a chicken boiling on the stove. Water vanished and the chicken went up in smoke and out the open windows. The neighbors saw the smoke and smelled the stench and called the fire department and ran over to find my mom passed out from her daily meds and exhaustion. It took months to get the smell out of everything. The entire home had to be repainted and every fabric washed. The good thing about a BBQ is that the stench would have been outside

So the bird can fly after all! Funny and disheartening all at the same time

Yes Bruce, the clamps slide off once the gunk is chipped off the basket rails. Not hard to do and I think the attachment method is a good one. My reason for wanting some other method, like the wire on method, is to not have to pick food out of allen head bolts and all the clamp angles that catch gunk. Wire is ordered so I will Post how well that works. I do like the roti basket and will purse this part of my quest. Amazing basket, it will hold two (2) 20 LB turkeys!! This is just one (1) 20 LB turkey.

Will they just rinse off after soaking in PBW??

Tony, the BB32 has a roti that is giant and I would need a 25gal barrel to put it into to be able to immerse the whole thing. I know flipping that drippy mess around would work, but I am old and desire to simplify things. I did not mind cleaning the baskets but those little clamps/mounting hardware with set screws and recesses to gather gunk left me wanting something else, hence the desire for wire. Checked a couple of craft stores in the county today and got a lot of small 22-24ga wire which IMHO is way to small and would cut through a crusty bird skin. Something on the line of 14ga is where I am headed.

SS wire would be best and the hobby/craft store is a good suggestion, thanks!

I have been using one for years. Food items to freeze for later use, AND freezing raw coffee beans for my home roaster size portions.

Did it.

Thank you one and all! I was thinking as I was clamping the bird into the basket that "I should put tinfoil booties over the drumstick ends", got lazy and said to self, " I don't eat the knuckle ends anyway"; should tin foiled them... Oh well, a learning experience CKREEF, you are lucky, the wrench sizes for mine are 2 sizes, one for the basket clamps and one for the roti. The one I use for the roti is a long T-handle wrench I have had for years (easier to control than the "L" wrench). The roti really needs to slide straight on with 2 vertical pins to lock it in place. Does anyone know the effect that copper has when it interacts with food? Like using copper wire for the roti lacing/tying??

First spin with the roti, and it was a 20 LB turkey, stuffed with a wild rice, sauteed in garlic butter almonds, raisins, rosemary, thyme and sage. The bird was rubbed in garlic, salt, pepper and rosemary and thyme w/olive oil. Love the roti , hate cleaning the clamping thingy's. Next time I am using wire to tie the bird to the roti. 3-1/2 hrs @ 450 over the cool side of the KK using CoCoChar and some Coffee Char and Coffee Smoking Wood. There needs to be a way to put the roti motor on by dropping 2 pins in from the top, not that wingnut affair...

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ROFL!!!

Yep, spun it around with all the things in place, except the bird. Tomorrow I spin the bird before the fire is lit. I sure wish there was a better solution for mounting the motor. I have a few idea that need some paper to draw it for Dennis to see what he thinks. Probably he will say, "Tried it" but it is worth a shot because mounting the motor is a PITA.

Tomorrow is a turkey on the rotisserie, a first try with that device. 1/2 firebox with the bird over the cooler side.

Jeff, that was very inspirational!