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    Cooking, growing vegetables, eating, travelling and, in between all of that, I squeeze in being a workaholic

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  1. Wow, that looks great! It must have been a lot of work to get that all built but well worth it.
  2. Ha! Liar, liar, pants on fire @Pequod. I learned a lot from you and am missing your bread and pizza game. What have you been cooking? Please share! I am in Italy at the moment. Made great wholewheat spaghetti yesterday but my focaccia dough failed overnight. Thinking it must be temperature related (too cold). Not sure I can justify a bread proofer here so will see if the warming bowl in my mixer will help.
  3. The stainless steel tops do get scratched over time but still look good. I did wonder, if I wanted to see the teak at some point in the future, whether it would be possible to take the stainless steel off and sand and polish the teak top beneath. If so, it would be two for the price of one. I would get to experience both styles and it would be like having new teak side tables a few years down the line.
  4. Welcome @Davidm. I suspect that, if you have a 42 itch, you should scratch it. That said, I grill in large quantities and have never found my 32 to be too small but that is because I am of the school that thinks you need at least two outdoor cookers so that you can work at different temps and/or use different techniques. My minimum set up would be a 32 and a 23 or a 32 and a good wood fired oven. Enjoy and take your time making your choice, it is one of the most fun parts of the KK journey.
  5. Wow, what a trip @remi! That seafood on the grill looks particularly tasty.
  6. Well done! I think the 32 is a great choice @Dennis. Details please...what colour? Tiles, of course. When is it due to arrive? If you made a mistake and ordered pebbles 🤭, I am sure that there is time to make the change and cross over to the right side of the tracks.
  7. What he said! Also love the idea of an al pastor pizza. Yum!
  8. Funny you should ask that @Dennis All KKs come with deflectors as standard but no one that I know uses them for anything other than paving stones! @DennisLinkletter says he includes them because BGE users expect them. I have never used a BGE so I cannot say why they are needed in BGEs but I find that there is sufficient distance between the firebox and the main grate in the 23 and 32 KK not to need a deflector for low and slow cooks. A very small area of lit coal is able to keep the KK at a steady low temperature without burning your food. That said, the KK also comes with a robust stainless steel tray that I sometimes sit on the handles of the firebox to catch drips when I am grilling something particularly fatty. It is a very pretty tray and some people use it for serving. I line it with foil to make it easy to clean. P.S. Don't follow my example with KK purchases. I should have bought a 32 first time around and it took me a few years to come to the conclusion that I needed one. An expensive mistake given the cost of importing KKs from Indonesia into the UK. Less of a problem for you if you are based in the US.
  9. Your cooks are looking great @MsTwiggy so you are certainly doing a lot of things right! I wouldn't sweat the charcoal issue, you will find your sweet spot over time. I close my lid straight away after lighting and remember dire warnings of messing up my gasket (or burning my hands) when I first joined the forum and was told not to leave the lid up with a fire going. We don't have access to Dennis' coffee lump or cocochar in the UK. I buy a commercial brand of cocoshell briquettes that has worked very well for me over the years. I smile when you US folk talk about pallet shares. I was once so desperate to try Dennis' fuel that I pestered him until he told me it made no sense unless I wanted to buy a whole container load. That would have been one hell of a "pallet" share! I have learned to be happy with what we have here and may one day find my way to into a US KK owner's house to see how the other half live.
  10. @Dennis I own a 32, 23 and 16 and would say that, if two zone cooking is what you are looking for, the 32 is hands down the best grill to pick. The 23 does do two zone cooking and I sometimes do a reverse sear using the half main grate on the 23 but you don't have that much room if you want to cook a few steaks at one.
  11. Yeah, it is great. Had some ice cream from it just this afternoon. That said, @jeffshoaf bought the ninja creami and was v happy with it. See here for his expose if you have not found it already!
  12. That looks very professional @David Chang. Let's hope it turns out great!
  13. Welcome @MsTwiggy. Great name. Wish I had thought of using MsPiggy when I first came on the forum! I live in UK near the sea and it can be pretty damp here. I buy pallet loads of charcoal and cocoshell briquettes and have kept both for years without any issues. The charcoal is in an open cellar with water dripping in (I catch it in a trug so it never hits the paper bags that the charcoal is in) and the briquettes are in boxes in a wooden shed. I have no issues with lighting either and no worries about damp lump. I have exactly the opposite lighting technique to you. I light the fuel at the top, making a small well in the middle to either receive isopropyl alchohol soaked lump or a wax lighter, and I close the lid. I keep both the top vent and the left bottom vent fully open during the initial lighting process but I never bother with the small holes on the right except when trying to maintain a low and slow temp. I am not sure about keeping the lid open for 15 minutes while lighting. My expectation is that the chimney effect created by having the lid shut is actually more efficient for lighting the lump and for building up the heat in your KK. It is worth experimenting with different methods to see what works best for different situations. Soooo much fun cooking over fire. Welcome again. P.S. Good to have reached out to @Pequod. I miss him!
  14. Oh yeah...welcome to the tile side. You will surely find that they cook better. I did.
  15. Congratulations! Can't wait to see the pics of your new KK. I love a 22TT. Beautiful piece of kit if you have the right spot for it.
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