I have the small 14in weber I got used for 5 bucks, but this is my 1st new weber kettel! I'm excited to try all kinds of different cooking configurations on it from the slow and sear to the vortex and everything in-between. Was going to get the basic model but by the time I bought all the extras that come with the mastertouch model I save about 50 bucks so I got the fancy one.
Did a test run 1st to see the difference between the thermometer at lid level verses the grate level. About a 20 deg difference i put the grate probe below the lid thermometer to get the closest reading.
Since I had a full chimney of charcoal going for my test run I put on a few ck wings. Frank's red hot buffalo ranch dry rub applied to the wings.Used the 2 charcoal baskets on each side and a water pan in the middle to cook them indirect and put a chunk of cherry wood in each basket.
Later that night for dinner I cooked ny strips marinaded in whiskey for 1 hour, then put Kosmos cow cover rub, kosher salt and fresh ground pepper on them after patting them dry with paper towels. Used the same cooking set from earlier with 2 baskets on each side with the water pan in the middle where I cooked the steaks to 105deg and then slide the baskets together and seared about 1 min on each side. Been wanting to try this for a while ever since i saw someone do this with Jack Daniel's, its definitely worth a try will do this again for sure it just pains me to throw out the whiskey afterwards.
put in a chunk of pecan wood with coals for the steaks.
Doing a pizza tonight don't have the special accessories for it so I got 2 bricks from my offset smoker to elevate the pizza pan just going to use the oven pizza pan for now until i get a grill pizza stone.
Did a test run 1st to see the difference between the thermometer at lid level verses the grate level. About a 20 deg difference i put the grate probe below the lid thermometer to get the closest reading.
Since I had a full chimney of charcoal going for my test run I put on a few ck wings. Frank's red hot buffalo ranch dry rub applied to the wings.Used the 2 charcoal baskets on each side and a water pan in the middle to cook them indirect and put a chunk of cherry wood in each basket.
Later that night for dinner I cooked ny strips marinaded in whiskey for 1 hour, then put Kosmos cow cover rub, kosher salt and fresh ground pepper on them after patting them dry with paper towels. Used the same cooking set from earlier with 2 baskets on each side with the water pan in the middle where I cooked the steaks to 105deg and then slide the baskets together and seared about 1 min on each side. Been wanting to try this for a while ever since i saw someone do this with Jack Daniel's, its definitely worth a try will do this again for sure it just pains me to throw out the whiskey afterwards.
Doing a pizza tonight don't have the special accessories for it so I got 2 bricks from my offset smoker to elevate the pizza pan just going to use the oven pizza pan for now until i get a grill pizza stone.
