Looks pretty dangerous to me! At one time, these were chutes in a factory for sending shoes down to lower floors. Now it's part of the City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri. From the website:
Housed in the 600,000 square-foot former International Shoe Company, the museum is an eclectic mixture of children’s playground, funhouse, surrealistic pavilion, and architectural marvel made out of unique, found objects. The brainchild of internationally acclaimed artist Bob Cassilly, a classically trained sculptor and serial entrepreneur, the museum opened for visitors in 1997 to the riotous approval of young and old alike.
Cassilly and his longtime crew of 20 artisans have constructed the museum from the very stuff of the city; and, as a result, it has urban roots deeper than any other institutions’. Reaching no farther than municipal borders for its reclaimed building materials, City Museum boasts features such as old chimneys, salvaged bridges, construction cranes, miles of tile, and even two abandoned planes!
The facility is part playground and part urban exploration site. Oh yeah, those who've been there say only one of these slides is actually open to use, and it has a grill covering. And they have plenty to tell about the rest of the museum. Link
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I'll try :)
http://www.adventurealliance.com/smoker.htm
The pics kinda suck but you get the point
Dutch Designer Piet Hein Eek
Whichever one, cooking in a round ceramic vessel is just amazing. No kettle grill can compare.
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The huge x-thousand BTU "outdoor kitchens" are, frankly, kinda silly. Why bother? Might as well cook in a regular oven.
http://www.kegaque.com/
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Rollmops, is there a background story to that grill? I'd very much like to update the post with it...
Bobby, thanks for the correction!
But The Spook wrote me to let me know that he only desgined the grill (being a fabrication engineer), and a friend of his named J.W. Holtman actually built the rig, and has since added on to it.
Just wanted to state that for the record ...
Up to you. Don't say I didn't warn you. Of course, once you lose your mind completely, you won't remember I told you so.
To spiiderweb: what? me? obsessed? never!
http://www.rollerfeet.com/backporchbeer/archives/000884.html
http://www.belson.com/grills.htm
I will say as a Big Green Egg owner I may be biased but the BGE may be the most versatile grill on the list.
Oh and Katrina??? You must not like meat...but what about the bone?
This grill has been around since 1995!
Big taste from a small town.
Here's another nice 'homebrand' bbq
The Ultimate Smoker AND Grill built by Trace Arnold is a remodeled version of Texas Lil's Worlds Largest Transportible Smoker which was NOT orginally built by Klose.
Adventure Alliance DOES NOT own the Worlds Largest BBQ, it is the USG and they make it available for their clients. They should have a link to www.theultimatesmokerandgrill.com (which is being updated.) The USG really doesn't make the competition circuit unless a sponsor wants to bring it in. The Ultimate Smoker and Grill is normally on tour.
All the grills in this blog are awesome,everyone has their 'Niche' in this nifty world of "Q"!
I won't even go into the history of the owner, but you can find out more details of how he abandoned his factory and workers and creditors in Indonesia here: http://www.komodokamado.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=102
Jasmine
Whatever you decide, a kamado-style cooker will undoubtably knock your socks off when you taste the difference.
La Caja China grills are also popular and pretty unique. Apparently a lot of big name chefs use them.
http://www.lacajachina.com/
Not as bulletproof as the ceramics for cooking results; it is a whole lot cheaper and easier to move around and far less fragile.
I'm a big Traeger fan and highly recommend them.
Expensive? You get what you pay for. Ceramic cookers are the most versatile outdoor cookers around. You can make jerkey at 150 degrees, barbecue at 225, roast lamb and turkey at 325, roast chickens at 400, bake pizzas at 650 and sear steaks at 800. And of course, you can do anything at any temperature in between. They also are very efficient with fuel, cooking for 30 hours on a single load of charcoal. They can cook in sub-zero weather, when metal cookers cannot without rigging up insulation of some sort.
Fragile? Say what? Hardly. There are numerous competition barbecue teams taking their supposedly fragile ceramic cookers on the road with them. And, oh by the way, several of them are winning and winning big.
Limited cooking space? Again, hardly. Limited grilling space maybe, but you can cook loads of food in a ceramic cooker. You can do pulled pork for 60 people in a large Big Green Egg for example.
Consider the fact that many many ceramic owners own multiple ceramic cookers. No, ceramic cookers are superb cooking units. They may not be for everyone, but to label them as fragile, expensive and limited is just not a very informed opinion.
$869.00 for a cooker with a 18" grid at Amazon.com.
And how's your firebox? Cracked, I'll bet. Did your grate crack? How many gaskets have you fried? Does the lid on your cooker stay open?
$650? For a cooker with approx 100 square inches less grill area than a $85 Weber. LOL!
What accessories does that include? Does it come with a nest? Oh, and careful, those wheels on the nest are tiny...hit a seam or crack on your patio and your egg will pull a Humpty Dumpty...
"All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again."
Well, Ron, it seems like you have learned well all the ignorant stereotypes about ceramic cookers. Enjoy your cooker and all the ceramic owners will enjoy theirs.
Has more than one broke on ya?
It must be convenient to keep running back to your dealer for replacement gaskets and fireboxes.
LOL
Listen to you! I know there were problems with the Extra Large Egg. I know that you know there were problems with the Extra Large Egg.
From the Naked Whiz Web site;
# The lid on my cooker won't stay open. What should I do?
Well, when the rear hatch on our mother's Plymouth mini-van wouldn't stay open, she used a broomstick to prop it open. However, this isn't such a good idea on the Egg, so we have two suggestions. First, if you own an Extra Large Egg, you may have one of the older hinges which had this problem. Call the Big Green Egg headquarters in Atlanta to see about a replacement. However, if you own a Large Egg, you may have installed the hinge upside down. Yes, this is possible and it happens. Rather than show you how to install your hinge here, we suggest you get the assembly instructions and check them carefully to insure you have installed the hinge correctly. If your dealer assembled the Egg for you, then of course, contact your dealer if necesssary. And if all else fails, contact BGE headquarters in Atlanta for help.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, if you are done posting all the helpful information in my Ceramic FAQ about solving problems that owners might have with a Big Green Egg, I think I'll go back to enjoying my four ceramic cookers and the comradery of my fellow owners. The real message here is that most owners of ceramic charcoal cookers are very happy with their purchase. I'd invite any prospective purchasers of ceramic charcoal cookers to visit any of the online manufacturer's forums and get informed about the cookers and the owner satisfaction levels. Links can be found at www.nakedwhiz.com/ceramiclinks.htm.
www.nakedwhiz.com/ceramiclinks.htm
Who said I have a Weber? Who said I can't afford an egg? Who said I use Matchlight?
I never said any of that.
I have a FEC100 & a Grillworks by Grillery.
Go on keep cooking with your fragile cookers. We both know they're prone to breaking, the difference between me and you is that I wouldn't tolerate a cooker with fundamentally flawed design elements.
ummmm sure....the firebox is SUPPOSED to be broken!!!
LOLOLOL
And LOL@ you for thinking you're better than someone because you can afford a more expensive cooker.
You're a lot like your naked buddy....OWNED!
The ceramic walls provide superior insulation, making it possible to maintain pinpoint control over temrperatures and to maintain those temperatures for hours on end.
Someone posted a comment about ceramic cookers being fragile, but I've yet to hear anyone talk about owning a non-ceramic cooker for more than 5 years, whereas it's quite common for owners of ceramic cookers to talk about owning one for 20, 30, even 40 years. Yes, ceramic will break if dropped on a hard surface, but how often does that happen? What one does hear far more frequently are stories of children suffering serious burns from getting too close to metal grills, smokers, etc.
http://new.cbbqa.com/obbqfot/OBBQFOT-Sept20.html
It's not great for really long smoking as you have to refill the burning chamber every 10 or 20 minutes, and it's hard to keep the temp down.
The grill really infuses wood flavor, and even better there is so little ash to throw out. I'll never use charcoal again!
Link: http://www3.johnsonville.com/bigtastegrill/
fantastic. I formerly owned a restaurant in Huntington Beach,Ca. by the name of Heeneys Weeney's which specialized in fresh sausages and weiners, Beef Brisket,Smoked Chichen and Pork Ribs with all sided served being home made. I miss the business but not the long hours, again thank you.
"Ah, Ron, you got me on that one, lol! Thanks for refreshing my memory. I had forgotten about that problem. I try to add new information to my FAQ as I see posts in the BGE forum asking for help. However, when a supposed problem like cookers not staying open arises, and it turns out to be a non-issue like this one, I forget about it and move on."
From the BGE forum website
"To all XL Big Green Egg owners!!!
We are pleased to announce that we have developed an XL Spring Assist Kit which will greatly improve the opening and closing of your XL Big Green Egg."
lol
OWNED!
barbecue USB!!!!
Un altro barbecue… ma USB!!!
A custom built Competition BBQ Trailer by Pitts and Spitts.
With a 1/4" thick solid stainless steel firebox, stainless steel cooking grates, and an fully adjustable Charcoal Grill on the back side. This rig has a Marine/Outdoor CD Stereo system, along with a stainless steel food preparation surface, wood storage, and burners.
Emeril Lagasse has used this same model smoker on his show.
Once again, you seem to be confused. The original problem we spoke of earlier affected only a few early XL BGE's and was quickly resolved by the BGE company. Specifically, the lid would not stay open.
What you refer to now is a completely different issue. After the XL had been out for some time, BGE got feedback from XL owners that the dome top was difficult to raise for the first few inches of travel, until the springs kicked in and started to assist the opening of the lid. By the same token, when you closed the lid, as the lid approached being a few inches from closed, the spring assist dropped out and the lid suddenly became heavy again. It is this behavior that this new spring assist kit is intended to address, not the fact that a few XL's had problems with the lid not staying open.
Please, if you are going to try to "own" everyone who posts about ceramics here, try to get your story straight.
it was made of wood and it looked like a kitchen cabinet,it was about six feet long and it had a hotplate about two feet long plus a grate area about two feet long, and i think it had a side burner.
o yes it was a gas unit.
Richard L. Stephen
RSVP.
I've just got an old Weber but I love it.
Ron--you are a tremendous putz.
Steel--you are an old school doofus. Plenty of contests are won by users of ceramic. There's a fellow named Dr. BBQ that's done pretty well with ceramic.
seems the ceramic cooker users are jealous,try getting on the Egg forum when there's a JD or the American Royal World championship contest happening or any other major contest for that matter,they all on there waiting to win in the top 10,,ain't happened yet in 3000 years,bein so supperior to all the steel cookers must be nice.Dr BBQ? ,,what's he ever won? Now P.Kirk has done well with steel,many,many,many,many,many,many,many World BBQ Championships there,i counted 7 many's!Also runs one of the most succesfull BBQ restaraunts in the world.Always when prooven how foolish these ceramic hustlers are they turn to name calling.Can't wait.
Ceramic vs. Steel certainly seems to fire some people up...
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