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    Weber SmokeFire - anyone get it yet

    I thought the same thing, that was a bad luck for them to basically tell a customer "you're wrong, what you're saying didn't really happen, this did instead". I may be giving folks too much credit, but I think even relatively novice grillers understand the difference between a flare up and a...
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    BBQ gloves

    In my experience, using cotton knit gloves with nitrile gloves lined on top is solely to give you enough heat protection to pick up food hot off the smoker or work with the meat (like pulling pork by hand), so you're talking about temps like 225 or less in most cases. I would not try to use...
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    Going to be an interesting year for new grills I think

    Have you looked at the OKJ DLX? It's at my local Lowe's and has a really large "sear zone" or something like that right in the middle. They claim 650F sear temp. I'm not sure if the 900 has the same feature or not as I haven't seen that one yet.
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    Weber Smoke Fire

    I totally agree. I can't comprehend how the grease fire thing wasn't caught if they did any sort of real-world user or beta testing. Surely during development they gave out some units to employees or friends to just let them use them in the real world, and surely some of those people went low...
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    Weber Smoke Fire

    I think they were so focused on making it grill well that they just sort of overlooked the low and slow smoking aspect. It's as if they took that part for granted and all their testing was just searing and hot and fast related stuff.
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    Weber Smoke Fire

    I watched it and it's much more positive than the others, but it was basically a test of how not to get a grease fire and what you can do to prevent that. He did brisket and pork butt hot and fast, and removed them completely after 2 hours and took them inside to the oven. That's fine, but...
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    Weber SmokeFire - anyone get it yet

    You're right about that last part. If you took "Weber" off this product and had the exact same item at the same price launch with these reviews, people wouldn't even be considering it. That's not to say the brand doesn't matter at all, because behind that is customer service and support, but...
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    Weber Smoke Fire

    BBM did several videos and they were all very insightful, but it seems like there's a new review with problems popping up every few hours right now. It's definitely not just some small problem that only affected a minor group, it seems to be a big chunk of the early adopters having the issues...
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    BBQ gloves

    I have these and am a fan. Whether you do these exact ones or a different brand, I'd highly recommend the route of nitrile gloves with a cotton liner underneath. That's what virtually all of the competition guys seem to be doing. It gives you enough heat resistance to pick up meat hot off the...
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    Weber SmokeFire - anyone get it yet

    My guess is that Weber won't recall, but they'll quickly tool up a pan and send it to people who already own it (hopefully for free), and they'll start including that pan in all future products until they can do a full on redesign for V2.0
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    Weber SmokeFire - anyone get it yet

    I was wondering the same thing about how widespread this problem actually is. I just looked at their website and the average rating across their first 25 reviews is 2.8 stars. All 3 models at Lowe's have bad initial reviews as well. Sometimes, a few very loud consumers make a problem seem...
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    Weber SmokeFire - anyone get it yet

    me? I haven't seen a single review repeated within this thread?
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    Weber SmokeFire - anyone get it yet

    Here's another review I just saw today. Watch Before Buying - SmokeFire Review This guy had an even worse time with it. Some of these issues are to be expected, but others are surprising considering this is Weber and that they've theoretically been cooking with and testing Pit Boss, Traeger...
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    Going to be an interesting year for new grills I think

    If you ever see yourself wanting to smoke a lot of stuff at one time, like say 3 boston butts or even just 2 briskets, I'd steer clear of those dual-chamber options like the KC Combo and Twin Oaks. Those things look huge at first glance, but they're really just a small smoker and a small gas...
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    48 Hour Short Ribs in Red Wine Reduction

    Overall, the recipe was just ok. They were cooked perfectly and the texture of the short ribs was wonderful, but the flavors were a little strange to me for beef. I'll 100% be doing sous vide short ribs again, but I'll probably skip the orange peel and wine reduction.
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    48 Hour Short Ribs in Red Wine Reduction

    I'm trying this recipe for the first time and am currently 36 hours into it. 48 Hour Beef Short Ribs. Has anybody ever done this one before? 160 seems like a pretty high temperature for 48 hours, but these guys put out a ton of recipes so I doubt they got the temperature wrong. I'll post...
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    Going to be an interesting year for new grills I think

    The only thing I'd say about the Platinum Series option is that the sq inches can be misleading. On the Lockhart specifically, you'd have to be doing very specific and different foods to be able to use all of it at once. That whole top section is really more of a cold smoker, unless you want...
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    Going to be an interesting year for new grills I think

    Yikes, sounds like you've got some bad luck! Honestly, with those bad experiences, I might would just go with a company that has been doing Pellet Grills for years instead of people doing them for the first time. I'm curious which design features you saw that you didn't like on the OKJ...
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    Going to be an interesting year for new grills I think

    I agree. I think I'm about to pull the trigger on it. Even though I've seen some auger jam issues pop up in one of the fan groups, they've all said the customer service was great when responding to issues, so that makes me less concerned.
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    Going to be an interesting year for new grills I think

    Yep, they put out a line this year. I saw a mini version at Target last week, but the big one at Lowe's is what I've been looking at. Similar to the PB Platinum series, reviews are just starting to roll in on them. I just found this review this morning...
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