Hasty Bake Legacy 131 Has Arrived!

[Winterrider]

That is a fine looking machine Red, congratulations.!

 

[seenred]

That is a fine looking machine Red, congratulations.!

Thank you Brother!

Red

 

[BigW.]

Glad you you finally bought one. Great grill for sure. Now get some charcoal in it

 

[seenred]

Glad you you finally bought one. Great grill for sure. Now get some charcoal in it

Thanks W! Good advice!

Red

 

[SmokinEdge]

@seenred , do you mind dragging me a little ways into the weeds about how that lift mechanism actually works? I’m just curious

 

[seenred]

@seenred , do you mind dragging me a little ways into the weeds about how that lift mechanism actually works? I’m just curious

Don't mind a bit! So there's a crank handle on the left side of the cabinet with a coarse-threaded screw extending into the cabinet. Crank that screw in, and it pushes on a ram that makes contact with a pair of hinged arms. Crank it one way and the arms go up - crank the other and the arms go down.

I'm probably gonna drag it out a cook something on it tomorrow or Friday...I'll try to remember to take a pic or 2 of that lift mechanism. Pretty cool how it works.

Red

 

[chopsaw]

Just trying to help a brother out ,,

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[JckDanls 07]

LOL>.. If that aint an Enabling moment...

 

[coltranem]

I am going to be following you. I have been looking at this for direct heat bbq.

 

[ifitsdeadsmokeit]

Perfect timing for the first cook. My birthday is this week and I am probably an cpl hour away. Be in peoria ridge sun. Taking requests?

 

[seenred]

Perfect timing for the first cook. My birthday is this week and I am probably an cpl hour away. Be in peoria ridge sun. Taking requests?

Ah Peoria Ridge! Played there a few times, but not in a long time. Last time was maybe 15 years ago. Hey happy birthday neighbor! I hadn't planned on taking requests...but any SMF brother is welcome to pull up a chair! I'm planning a rack of BB ribs...but that's probably happening tomorrow if the rain holds off...

Red

 

[pc farmer]

Ah Peoria Ridge! Played there a few times, but not in a long time. Last time was maybe 15 years ago. Hey happy birthday neighbor! I hadn't planned on taking requests...but any SMF brother is welcome to pull up a chair! I'm planning a rack of BB ribs...but that's probably happening tomorrow if the rain holds off...

Red

Can't wait to see this thing cook. I watch Kent cook on this all the time.

 

[TimboBBQ!]

Happy Thursday SMF Friends!

If you saw a previous thread, you know I decided to downsize a little, and sell my big gravity fed cabinet smoker in favor of a Hasty Bake Smoker/Grill/Oven. Well the new pit arrived today!

It's a Hasty Bake Legacy 131. For those unfamiliar, Hasty Bake is the oldest Made-in-America manufacturer of charcoal grills in the U.S. They've been continuously built in Tulsa, OK since 1948...even longer than Webers.

Since building a couple of pits lately with direct-fire cooking capabilities, I've really become attracted to that style of cooking. But I also know I'll always want to be able to do low n slow, indirect smoking as well. The Hasty Bake is designed to do both of these cooking styles very well!

Here are a few pics of the new cooker:


It's the powder coated version - they also sell the same grill in two other finishes: all stainless steel, and a corten steel (which looks like raw steel, and I'm told develops a rust-like patina over time).

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The best design feature of all Hasty Bake grills is the fully adjustable fire grate system. This crank handle on the left side of the grill controls the height of the fire basket. It'll crank all the way to a couple inches below the cooking grates, or all the down to about 20 inches below.

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They recently updated their intake and exhaust dampers to these dual pinwheel-style vents.

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It has a tall, full-width FB access door.

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A large slide-out ash pan.

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And the fire grate assembly also slides out. This gives you a view of the fire grate lift mechanism inside the FB.

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They also provide a removable heat deflector - which allows for indirect, low n slow smoking.

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The double cooking grates measure roughly 19" x 28", for about 530 sq. inches of cooking area.

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I've got some things going today and tomorrow, so it'll be sometime this weekend before I'm able to cook on it. I'll be posting a cook thread when that happens!

Thanks for looking!
Red

Nice rig !!

 

[seenred]

Nice rig !!

Thank you!

Red