Curly Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 JDBower, Welcome to our forum. Come on in and share some of your recipes and cook pictures. If you have none, then sit back and enjoy the others, but feel free to jump in and participate. Curly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanny Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Hey, Jeff! Lovely to see a former almost-neighbor. Pull up a comfy chaise lounge, and enjoy the grillin and chillin. hehehe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdbower Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Thanks! I'm still in the research phase (read: my wife has no idea how much these cost so there's a lot of convincing in my future ) so there's nothing to show yet. Heck, I'm still mostly homeless (in the process of building a new house behind the existing one) so I don't have any place to put a cooker - but Sanny helped guide me as to how to solve that issue the right way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanny Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 construction mortgage... Well, lesseeeee. I think this could qualify as "kitchen enhancement," right? So that would snuggle into the building loan quite nicely. Cost be damned! lol. Over a 30 year amortization, who'd notice a little expense like that, anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curly Posted May 31, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 There ya go. Just ask the little lady if she wants the pizza and bread oven and the sear grill at (not in) the new house or not. So, what are you gonna do with the old house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdbower Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 I never thought to pitch it as a kitchen expense before, that may work! Actually the breadmaker factor may win her over, and we just came back from Switzerland where she loved the brick oven pizza (next best thing to good old Jersey Pizza!). What are we doing with the old house? Well, SOMETHING'S got to fuel the grill Interesting note, a quote tag apparently counts as an HTML link so I'm now in the suspected spammer bin. Wanna buy some cheap meds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanny Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 spammer Hmmm. Cheap drugs from a notorious, temporarily blonde, twinky celebrity? Who is in or out of rehab, depending on the time of day? No thanks... Do try using the pizza angle. It's reeeeeally good cooked in cooker. And so is the home made crusty bread. You'll see quite a few sourdough bread entries on these boards, as well as some really good pizza pics. That little bit of smokey flavor is wonderful in the bread or crust. And you can fire it up hot, and not heat up the kitchen in summer, and still have wonderful fresh bread, rolls, pizza, whatever you want. OH DROOOL!!!! There was an article in the regional scurrilous rag (masquerading as a newspaper) featuring a local atty and his wife (quoted as wanting to go to Tuscany so she could go to Prada). They'd put howevermany tens of thousands into a wood fired terracotta oven in their kitchen. Takes all morning to heat to 700 degrees to cook supper, and will stay hot for days. Can only use it in the cooler months of the year, since it heats up the house. They showed pics of cornish hens and fresh bread cooked in it. Well, seems to me there was nothin they did in there that my cooker couldn't do, and mine could do it all year round, and didn't take all day to heat! Ok, so it wasn't tens of many thousands of dollars. But I can live with the shame of that. And if I went to Tuscany, it wouldn't be for the Prada, thanks for asking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdbower Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 I'm afraid if I pitch the "we can cook all year round" issue it will come back to bite me as I'm huddled around the cooker in the winter time wishing for a little more radiant heat and cursing the efficiency of the thing. I actually just got back from building the beginnings of my mini-patio. I've built a ~3'x3' wooden form and it's filled with WAAAY too little sand and gravel, but I knew I didn't have enough when I picked it up (I more wanted to see how much I'd need once the form was set into the ground with 1' deep stakes). I'll try to get some pictures up when I'm done - right now I'm pooped as winter gave spring a miss and went straight into summer (to paraphrase Monty Python). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curly Posted May 31, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Build a covered porch...you'll never reqret it Cold I can take, but cold and wet is bad The one on the right never gets used anymore so I guess I'm gonna have to let it go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdbower Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 You're getting rid of the poor dog in the lower right? He looks so sad! And yes, a covered means of cooking outdoors is coming but I'll have to wait for the house to be built. In another forum Sanny rightfully objected to my suggestion that I may be able to get away with cooking on the shipping pallet for a few months so I decided to build a small patio just for the cooker. If I had bothered to calculate the amount of sand I'd need it would have been a job done in a few hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulR Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Thanks! I'm still in the research phase (read: my wife has no idea how much these cost so there's a lot of convincing in my future ) so there's nothing to show yet. Hi welcome to the forum. The wife hurdle: been there done that, what got her over the line was: - Pizza cooking - Bread making - Great chicken with the rotisserie - Yummy Paella (have a look at the Whiz's beautiful recipe here: http://www.nakedwhiz.com/paella/paella.htm - Oh yeah and I has to sign a statutory declaration to cook at least 3 times a week (not so bad using the KK I reckon). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanny Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Well, I thought the recipe Majestic and I posted was yummy. So there. You'll have to get cooking, and join the debate, Jeff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulR Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 Well' date=' I thought the recipe Majestic and I posted was yummy. So there. [/quote'] I didn't mean yours was bad ...maybe it was all the Whiz's photo's that did it for me (I'm a sucker for good marketing). When I get my KK I will also prepare yours.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanny Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 Just teasing, of course, Paul! Don't you KNOW? ALL of the recipes on the boards are good. Whizzy ones, and Sanny ones, and Majestic ones, and Deej ones, and Curly ones too! And PC and Fetzervalve... Ok, maybe not the broiled bugs. One must draw the line. But Dennis has shown some beautiful lamb, and beef. So we'll count his, too. What a delightful place to play, this is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curly Posted June 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 You're getting rid of the poor dog in the lower right? He looks so sad! No, I'm gonna have to keep Chubby, and he's kinda gaurding the cookers...he thinks the one on the right is his. Sanny will need to invite you over for a ceramics demo...and the wife, of course. She's famous on her street for her bread , maybe other stuff too, but this is a bbq forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulR Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 Curly, what are those plastic thingies on the left...... eskies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanny Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 Looks like two plastic containers of lump (stacked) and a cooler (with gloves on top). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulR Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 One looks like a cooler (esky?) the other two/three are for charcoal storage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curly Posted June 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 One looks like a cooler (esky?) the other two/three are for charcoal storage? Well, I'm not sure what an Eskie is, but they are all storage of some sort or other. One I keep my lump in, and I think the closest thing to the camera is a log that's on end. Funny, I don't remember that being there, and don't know where it may have gone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanny Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 Hmmm. It was there when Chubby was there. And gone when he left. I'm thinkin CHEW TOY!!! WOO HOOO!!!! Cowabunga! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
