Meet Maria

[JC in GB]

Wow, what a beauty. Hope you enjoy that for decades to come.

JC

 

[BigW.]

Great looking grill. Gotta play this in the background:)

 

[indaswamp]

Very cool? Who did ya name her after?

Santa!

 

[Winterrider]

That is a beautiful outfit. Will serve you for many many yrs !

 

[912smoker]

That's gonna be a lot of fun Jim!

Keith

 

[Fueling Around]

Baby steps Jim. Love the thighs learning the grill temps.

 

[civilsmoker]

Man that thing is pure cooking beautifulness all around!!! @seenred did you right!!!! Congrats and enjoy as I know we are all going to enjoy the pics you will share for sure!!!!

 

[fxsales1959]

Maria made it home last week. Joel @seenred built a beautiful grill.
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Had to work Memorial day so heated her up couple days later for some seasoning.
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Had to cook something so tossed some thighs on.
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She's hot and cooks like a dream.
Planning on really loading her up this weekend for my birthday. If work will leave me alone.
Joel thanks again for building it!

Holey Moley. enabler gears spinning. A quick google of "Santa maria" grills shows a plethora of what I assume will be Imported crap. including one at the Orange store. I'm sure the build quality won't be close to what "red" builds.

 

[Colin1230]

WooHoo, It's home. What a cooking machine!!!

 

[civilsmoker]

Yes it does but I add some lump charcoal to get some bigger chunks of hot coals.

I was going to say your pics were a perfect example of how to use the brasero (fire box) to get nice clean coals. Additionally, adding charcoal into the mix is something I do on the X-Fire all the time. It really helps reduce the time to generate a coal bed.

Just and idea for ya for different cooking, if you were to pick up a 6-inch-deep service pan and then bolt a handle like this you will have a "cooking dome" to have an "oven roast". This will allow you to get convection roasting with more smokiness for some items with a higher temp.....IE if you wanted to do baby backs while you are cooking other times......