I live in the suburbs just north of Philadelphia. I've been cooking meat on the grill for many years, everything from portable propane grills to sticks over a camp fire to big propane grills. I gave up the propane after the last grill's innards disintegrated. I switched to charcoal on a second-hand Weber kettle.
I read Lolis Elie's Smokestack Lightning just after helping a friend make ribs from live pig to plate, and it came together for me. I started slow-cooking on my kettle. Roast chickens, big bone-in chops, some peppers. Magic stuff.
I got a bonus at Christmas, and instead of a new fly rod that will spend most of the year in a rack, a rifle that never sees the deer stand or a radio that rarely warms the antenna, I decided to get a big grill. I wanted a kamado, and it was a tossup between the Egg and the Primo. The Egg has more support and a bigger community, but the Primo had a much better way to cook indirectly. Now I have a giant Primo Oval on the back patio and I'm learning. This slow and low stuff is tasty and it isn't as hard as it looks. I don't buy the kids popsicles any more because I need space in the freezer for roasters, ribs and shoulders when they go on sale.
I read Lolis Elie's Smokestack Lightning just after helping a friend make ribs from live pig to plate, and it came together for me. I started slow-cooking on my kettle. Roast chickens, big bone-in chops, some peppers. Magic stuff.
I got a bonus at Christmas, and instead of a new fly rod that will spend most of the year in a rack, a rifle that never sees the deer stand or a radio that rarely warms the antenna, I decided to get a big grill. I wanted a kamado, and it was a tossup between the Egg and the Primo. The Egg has more support and a bigger community, but the Primo had a much better way to cook indirectly. Now I have a giant Primo Oval on the back patio and I'm learning. This slow and low stuff is tasty and it isn't as hard as it looks. I don't buy the kids popsicles any more because I need space in the freezer for roasters, ribs and shoulders when they go on sale.
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