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Cool. It looks like you got the same one as me. They are great. I did have a problem with overheating a couple of summers ago because the room I had it in was not well ventilated. You might want to check that you have enough air flow around it. Not sure what they recommend about cladding and boxes but I have now moved mine to an open area and it hasn't had any problems since.

Aha! Glad you were able to identify the problem. Rotisserie yumminess to come when you receive your new rod.

Hi there @CaptMorg82. It is not clear from your photos whether you have the piece that connects your motor to the KK. I put together a video showing how the bits fit together. Hope this helps!

Little meal for one. Wagyu tri-tip (so juicy) and tomatoes and garlic roasted with oil and balsamic vinegar.

Wow Mac. That was some going to get that done in an afternoon/evening! Good looking burger. Yum. P.S. Awesome setting for your grill @Troble Good to see you getting some time to relax.

I too store my flour in the freezer but it didn't occur to me to vac pack it. It'll be good to have my ready use stuff loose and the rest will take up less space vacuum packed. Great idea. Thanks!

Cool. Which one did you get? Remember your journey from a 21 KK to a 42 KK? I would go large at the start if you can. Or maybe not. I have a small fridge size dry ager and sometimes I would like larger to hang bigger hunks of meat. That said, it would be more useful to have two small fridge sized agers - one to set at temps for ageing meat and one to set at temp and humidity for curing sausages. No biggie either way. Just great to have an ager at home. I tend not to eat steak out anymore because I can get so much better quality at home and cook it just the way I want it on my KK.

That looks good David. I am not a dessert person but I did share a tiramisu with a friend at a neighbourhood restaurant in Venice last month and it was to die for. In fact I would go back to the restaurant just for that. A good tiramisu is a thing of great joy.

Hi @Buzilo. I use my dry ager all the time and not just for steak. Tuna for up to two weeks, chicken for up to a week improves the flavour. I dry out the skin on pork joints, whole fish or duck breasts over a day or two to help with getting crispy results when I cook them. A number of us have dry agers - search the forum and you will find a number of threads and pics. I hope that helps!

Hey there @Troble, I too have that chicken recipe of yours on my list to do v soon. I found some yellow aji paste in, of all places, an Italian deli and have brought some home to try. Definitely stealing @tony b and @Tyrus' trick of cooking a steak from frozen. Won't work with my really thick steaks but will be great for achieving my nirvana of a crusty outside and cool middle. Drooling already.

Wow. A Maine Coon. Hopefully she will realise she can’t fit in there once she is grown otherwise you will have one stuck kitty! Or one upturned KK.

@Lance unless you are in a hurry I would wait the time it takes to get the money together and get a 32 if that is what you want and need. I like the 22TT but it is seriously heavy and you won’t be able to move it when you position it. My preference would be a 23 over a 22TT for that reason. All that said, go with your heart. A KK is a thing of joy and beauty, whatever the size.

My husband usually laughs at your terrible jokes @Poochie. He did not laugh at this one though. He was distracted by the need to explain to me that a baby deer is a fawn and not a doe. Oh well, you can’t win ‘em all.

I had never heard of a dough sheeter before @David Chang started this thread. Today we were walking round the back streets of Chioggia in Italy and I saw a dough sheeter in action. The boys were happy to oblige with a photograph. 🤪

That sounds really interesting @Basher. I must learn more about this. When I first heard about the zero carbon cow I thought it was just a gimmick to assuage meat eaters' guilt. It would be v good if it isn't a gimmick and does genuinely compensate for the impact of animal husbandry.

Oooh, now that's very exciting @Basher. It will be interesting to see how your meat develops over time as you start to cross breed. My most recent purchase of (dead) cow was from a farm that is trying to deliver a "zero carbon" beef. They manage the inputs and land in such a way as to offset the environmental impact of raising the cows. The good news for me was that the meat tasted great too. They are not carbon neutral yet but it is a good ambition.

I am looking forward to seeing how Dennis develops this. I remember rigging up hooks and chains in different configurations to cold smoke bacon and goose breast in the past. This contraption has a number of additional uses per my previous post. Will sit tight and wait and see what happens with the notch/multi hook debate.

Hi @jeffshoaf. @Wingman505 asked a similar question a while ago. Some answers here, but we don’t know what he ended up buying:

From what I understand @David Chang, it is the duration of the curing period that determines whether you eat the cured meat raw or not and not which salt you use. The difference in the salts is that No 2 will help keep you safe in a longer cure but, if you use No 2 in a shorter cure you are still dealing with the fact that you would normally cook meat that was cured for a shorter time. All that said, I have made short cured finnochio in the past where the meat was still soft and some may have been afraid to eat it raw but knowing that the Italians eat it and don’t die gave me the confidence to eat it too.

Now that is taking ingredient sourcing to a whole new level @Basher! Awesome.

Sorry to hear your reno's are taking sooo much longer than expected @Basher. Here is hoping that you get there soon. As for acquiring a farm - tell us more!!!

We were out on our first night back in Padova, Italy yesterday and came across this sign in on of our favourite bars. Thought of you @Basher I hope your renovations are going well.

That looks great @LedHed! Looking forward to getting hold of a meat hanger and trying that out.

Tee hee. Good to see the KK shopping channel is working as well as ever!

@Troble your honesty about having passed out made me burst out laughing. I read your post out to my husband. We then counted up the drinks you had had and then laughed nervously. For us, that sounded like a good round of drinks for lunch with more to come at dinner. Maybe we should be drinking less... It is very kind of you to thank me and others for having shown you the ropes. I want to thank you for all the fun recipes and techniques you have tried out and shared. The chicken shawarma is a great example. I followed and copied you through the stage where you were piling it onto the spit rod of the rotisserie and shaving the chicken off over the fire through to using the much more convenient method of piling the chicken onto a spike like you do in the photo above. Super yummy. I am now away from my KK for a month. I woke up looking at your beautiful chicken shawarma and wondered what it would be like with Nigerian pepper soup spice all over it. Thank you for the inspiration. There is always a great cook around the corner.