Now, if you can hook up my handle with what I’ve posted in the past, you might think that I’ve flipped my lid, or at least flipped my position on MCS. I haven’t. For me, there really is no point in getting more cookers. I have two. There is nothing another cooker can do for me that I can’t do with the ones I have.
HOWEVER.
That does not mean that more cookers are pointless. It does not mean that more cookers cannot be rationalized... justified. Hear me out.
You are eating a fixed number of meals. More cookers doesn’t mean you are going to eat more meals. Just because you have a gasser, a kettle, a kamado, a PBC, and a pellet grill doesn’t mean you are going to eat eleven times a day. We aren’t hobbits eating second breakfasts.
But, what that does mean is that every meal cooked on one tool saves wear and tear on the other tools! Start with that range inside. Okay, how can you justify getting a nice outdoor gasser? Simple: every meal cooked outside on the gasser is a cycle saved on the rangetop, or in the oven! So instead of that oven lasting 10 years, it should now last 20! (And of course, a nice gasser costs a lot less than a nice range, and you got it at today’s price instead of the price 10 years from now.)
And then, for only a bit more you can get the kettle. It’s cheaper than a gasser, and simple to maintain, and honestly it should last a lifetime. And it will pay for itself by reducing the number of times you will have to replace the innards on the gasser.
Thats the simple, irrefutable economics of it all. At the very least you can justify... strike that.
At the very least it doesn’t make economic sense to have fewer than two outdoor cookers.
Now if you want to go beyond that, well, that is for those more adventurous than I am. But all great thoughts start with a simple thought.
HOWEVER.
That does not mean that more cookers are pointless. It does not mean that more cookers cannot be rationalized... justified. Hear me out.
You are eating a fixed number of meals. More cookers doesn’t mean you are going to eat more meals. Just because you have a gasser, a kettle, a kamado, a PBC, and a pellet grill doesn’t mean you are going to eat eleven times a day. We aren’t hobbits eating second breakfasts.
But, what that does mean is that every meal cooked on one tool saves wear and tear on the other tools! Start with that range inside. Okay, how can you justify getting a nice outdoor gasser? Simple: every meal cooked outside on the gasser is a cycle saved on the rangetop, or in the oven! So instead of that oven lasting 10 years, it should now last 20! (And of course, a nice gasser costs a lot less than a nice range, and you got it at today’s price instead of the price 10 years from now.)
And then, for only a bit more you can get the kettle. It’s cheaper than a gasser, and simple to maintain, and honestly it should last a lifetime. And it will pay for itself by reducing the number of times you will have to replace the innards on the gasser.
Thats the simple, irrefutable economics of it all. At the very least you can justify... strike that.
At the very least it doesn’t make economic sense to have fewer than two outdoor cookers.
Now if you want to go beyond that, well, that is for those more adventurous than I am. But all great thoughts start with a simple thought.
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