Braai-Q

27 minutes ago, tony b said:

Never forget the 1st rule of remodeling - "How do you know when your contractor is lying to you? His lips are moving!" 

😂😂 The voice of experience speaks. Don't get me started! In fairness, most of the people I've got on board now are decent and conscientious. I can spot the charlatans at estimate stage generally. 

3 hours ago, MacKenzie said:

Welcome, Alex.  You just know that we'd be interested to hear and see pixs of your ODK, before, during and after the construction. Lots of KK'ers have more than one KK and I think you will find that it is great to have  the 19 and the 23. 

Thanks for the welcome MacKenzie. I will share my plans in a separate post although they keep changing. Unfortunately, Mrs Braai-Q has a strictly enforced 'one in one out' policy which applies to all of my vices. I think I'll be offering the 19" up for sale to offset the purchase of the new one as with all the building work we're doing, our bank account is being ritually violated and ransacked. 😮

4 hours ago, Tyrus said:

Quite the story Alex of a few cm and a bureaucratic conodrum separating you from your dream. Alas, alls well that ends well. Save the 19 in for your narrow boat travels up and down the canals, as they say, i think it would be smashing. One last thing, stay out of the shadows and drop a line once in a while, enjoy the 23 and give our best to the Queen.....she's got a 23 too,royal blue

I'm not so sure about the narrow boat travels but I think we'd make better progress going via canal these days than in London traffic. I love the idea of travelling down the canals with a 42" Bad Boy on the back tormenting the runners down the tow path with the smells of heavenly BBQ. 

Definitely out of the shadows and not sure why I didn't sign up sooner. I'm a member of a lot of different interest groups and forums and I always try to contribute and share experiences where I can because I've benefitted from and made some great friendships in places like this over the years. 

I shall pass your best wishes to the Queen and her Q. 

4 hours ago, ckreef said:

ODK - outdoor kitchen

 

BTW I have a 19" and 16" KK. Works fine for me and Mrs skreef. Of course I have a few other BBQ toys to supplement those. 

Thanks Charles. Feeling a bit dumb now. I'm conditioned to ODK as an abbreviation for something in software development. Now functioning with coffee. 

I am trying to cull the number of BBQs we have but what have you got besides the KK duo? 

6 minutes ago, ckreef said:

ODK

Thanks Charles. Thrilled to grill. You lost me on ODK but I've not had enough coffee so not quite at optimal performance. 😴

Thanks Pequod. Been wading through the sections, that's really helpful. I see you're a fan of Olive & Gold. 😃

Hi KK'ers

I thought I'd introduce myself having been a KK owner for about 5 years now and an infrequent lurker in these parts on and off over that time.

I'm from Southern Africa originally, moved to the UK for university and then moved from Oxford to London and am now in Suffolk (85 miles from London). Which accounts for my forum name - Braai or braai vleis being the equivalent of 'BBQ' in Southern Africa. We live in beautiful open countryside near Lavenham and Harry Potter fans will recognise the medieval town as a filming location. Suffolk is fantastic for fresh, high quality produce and a lot of it finds its way onto my KK with not much more than a food mile or two.

My KK journey if I can call it that started with a 19" high top for the house in London as my hallway was 1.2cm too narrow to get the 23" into the house and out into the back garden. It was a dark day when I made that discovery. You're probably questioning my commitment at this point if, like me, you've seen any of the videos where Big Bads are lifted into place by crane. Unfortunately, we lived near Liverpool Street (within the square mile of the financial district) and we had both an overhead power and fibre optic junction outside our house. We were told that we had to disable the power as it was too dangerous to move a crane so close to them. Then we were told that we'd need to take lines down to allow the crane to make the pass over the roof. We were then told we could only do it on a Sunday. The work estimate was put at around £7,500 - £10,000 with everyone on double time for Sunday of course. My wife told me that the 19" would do just fine and grudgingly, I agreed.

Years on, we now live in the countryside and have settled in sufficient to look at redevelopment and creation of a proper BBQ area so I'm getting a second bite at the cherry. Which is what brings me back to the forum. As much as I love the 19" and the inimitable KK quality, it was always a compromise so I'm putting an order in with Dennis for a 23" Ultimate which is what I wanted to order originally. I am currently debating choice of colour and have been chatting to Dennis over the week around options. My current KK is in a black pebble finish and I really like the reptilian look of pebble and I'm looking at Olive & Gold or Harvest Gold.

Happy to share plans for our outdoor kitchen area if it's of interest or inspiration to anyone and of course, if anyone in the UK is considering a KK, they're most welcome to come take a look at mine. 

If anyone has any pictures of their Olive & Gold or Harvest Gold KK's, I'd love to see them. 

That's me. Hello! 

Alex