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Excellent. But, unfortunately, it's the wrong time of year here to be doing yakitori cooking. 🥶

FYI - it's called a Jaccard. AmazonSmile: Jaccard 48-Blade Meat Tenderizer, Original Super 3 Meat Tenderizer, 1.50 x 4.00 x 5.75 Inches, White: Meat Tenderizer: Home & Kitchen

Have never done chestnuts, so no help here. Curious as to your decision to use CocoChar for a pizza cook? As you noted, it's a fuel-intensive cook, and at least over here in the US CocoChar is a precious commodity, only to be used for special low & slow cooks.

So you didn't spin it either. Probably a smart move with a bird that large. Agree, no need to brine a bird that's pre-injected with "solution." As you said, for $15, can't go too wrong!

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Showing your age if you remember "streaking!"

I am speculating here, but I think the concern is that with this heavy a bird, the rod will flex enough that it comes out of the mount in the side of the KK and the whole assembly drops into the fire. Hence, the advice to shift the bird more towards the motor end, rather than the center of the rod. I had this happen to me in my 23" KK, but it wasn't because of the weight of the food. My first spit rod was a tad long and was very difficult to insert in the KK mounts. (Back in the day, there was a lot of variations of rod shapes & sizes before Dennis standardized things.) So, I shortened it a bit, but went a tad too far. The rod would sometimes work its way out of the mount. If I was "lucky" it would just wobble around in the air as it rotated, but if I wasn't, it would fall out completely into the fire basket. I have subsequently replaced the spit rod with the newer design, which fits without modification.

Welcome to the Obsession! Can't wait to see the BB32 in its new home!

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@johnnymnemonic - I'd be more concerned whether the motor will turn that heavy a load. Which OneGrill motor do you have for it? If you are concerned about the weight, do you have the rotisserie basket instead of just the rod/fork combo?

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Nice tutorial on rotisserie birds. Looks great. I backed MEATER as a Kickstarter funding back when they just were getting started. I immediately saw the potential for rotisserie cooks. Took them a while to get the bugs out (see MEATER+), but they finally got it working as intended. I highly recommend getting one. Probably a good Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal out there?

Welcome to the Obsession.

Did you order the cold smoker attachment for your KK?

Finally bottled this year's batch of aji yellow hot sauce. The color is natural. Just the homegrown peppers, some garlic, a dash of seasoning salt and Xanthan gum.

That's our @Poochie!

I'm pretty solid in the Jealous Devil charcoal camp now these days. Look for the bags labelled "chunx." Nice medium to large pieces. No colossal ones like in FOGO.

Welcome to the Obsession! Can't wait to see it in its final resting place, especially if you make it the centerpiece of your courtyard with a water feature for accent. Will be stunning!

Gorgeous steak everyone! Making me crazy hungry right now!

Those Dino ribs look awesome! Nicely done!

It's the tree that Allspice berries come from. I use the wood chunks, leaves and berries when I do jerk cooking. I put the leaves and berries in a foil pouch with a couple of small holes punched in. The wood chunks just go on top of the fire. In Jamaica they actually put the meats on pimento wood branches for the "grate" over the fire. I can't replicate that unfortunately but do the best that I can with what I can buy.

The cinder block pit and chicken wire rack reminds me of upstate NY's Cornell chicken. It's a staple at local fundraisers, fairs, etc. Very similar to Alabama white sauce chicken. Technique is also reminiscent of Jamaican jerk chicken, cooked on/over pimento wood. I used to be able to get pimento wood on Etsy, but the US Ag dept changed the requirements for importing it and it became too expensive for the folks that I bought it from to keep selling in the US. I think that you can get it on eBay, but it's a bit pricier. I'd always been lead to believe that to make "true" Huli-Huli chicken, that you had to have the red Hawaiian sea salt (same as used in Kalua pig). I've seen both Emeril and Fieri make it on TV. I have a recipe from Raichlen's BBQ Bible that I've used before. All use a similar mopping sauce - cross between ketchup-based BBQ sauce and teriyaki. I've not tried this twist, but I'm guessing that Yakiniku (yakitori sauce) would be excellent on it?

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