A while back I did a write up on my impressions of a new KJ Kettle Joe cooker I'd bought. A quick summary, the build quality, particularly for air management, was/is awful. The hook on that particular piece of hardware is the "Slo-Roller" device that is designed by some Harvard/MIT types to "improve" the smoking process. I had done a rack of spare ribs that turned out fine, but didn't seem to be anything revolutionary. Maybe my evaluation was colored by the disappointment of the overall cooker "quality", but that's how I felt about it. In retrospect, and in conjunction with the project today, I'll say that it is a decent device for maintaining a good smoking environment. The deflector in the center acts much like a kamado configuration so indirect cooking/smoking is a breeze with no other do-dads necessary. As the picture shows I took the Slo-Roller device and mounted it to my Performer (22" for both). I have a gasket on the Weber lid and on the Slo-Roller bottom flange so it seals well. Today's project was a 4 lb slab of bacon. The kettle maintained 230 +/- for close to 3 hours and the appearance of the bacon slab turned out very nice. I trimmed off a bit on the side to see about taste and it had picked up some nice flavors from the apple wood chunks I'd placed in the lump charcoal fire bed. All in all a job to be pleased with. Was it a "huge" improvement? Can't really say. But it didn't hurt...................
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Interesting looking contraption. -
I guess I missed something, what does the red thing do?Comment
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Video discription (while mine is located differently the science is the same in essence): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMZ7-obD6vs
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