Always experimenting

This is a chimney cap with a temperature resistant flat black coating. I'm thinking sexy sexy sexy but I do a lot of thinking about Kamado chimney capping. What do you think?

We call them BBQ Poppers not ABTs

This is how we like them in this house:

Installation video

It's important to know how to install one of these.

The Vision version is a lot closer to Perfect in it's form and function.

I'm happy to say that the Vision version has been improved with a little more space for that gigantic vented top.

The Big Green Egg is the BBQ version of a crock-pot.  I set up my spareribs at around 1:00 and then took my son to a couple/few hours of soccer play.  I returned and checked the grill.  Everything was just as I'd left it, perfect.  The rest of the day was watching football and doing chores centered around the TV.  Great day and great ribs.

Is football really around the corner?

     I know I'm in GA but it's still  95 degrees every blasted day.  All I know is my Fantasy Football league has started asking about who's IN and OUT this year and Tom Brady is back in the news.  I'm a football'aholic but it's still a little early for me.  Somehow by September 1st or 2nd I'll have a plan for a ridiculous draft for sure.

     Much like my learned southern appreciation for the importance and the difference of really good BBQ.  I get much more excited about the upcoming college football season than I do the NFL.  In a month that will be rolling!  What will I cook for opening day?  Right now I'm thinking pulled pork but that's because it's been too long since I had my pulled pork.  Yeah, Saturday is always a cheatday too so I can eat pulled pork sandwiches and drink beer all day.

     Wow, I think I've decided on what I want to make for opening  day.  Best way will be start the night before with a Chimney Cap in place if  there's any chance of rain.  I'll wake up to my butt somewhere in or past the plateau and I'll be rocking samaches by lunch.  Now I'm getting excited for football!

It's always a let down after "Cheat Day"

     Tim Ferris' "Slow Carb" diet has been good to me for about a year and a half now.  I'm a pretty average guy in height but tended to carry a little extra weight.  The change allowed me to just make that little adjustment and drop from 220 to 190 and, most importantly, keep it there.

     The diet allows for 1 day per week when you can just eat and drink anything.  I usually start the day with cookies and potato chips and just roll on through constant snacks of junk and into forbidden meals.  It's a lot of fun and it prepares me for another 6 days of the regimen.

     The first day after Cheat Day is just such a let down.  It's hard to even eat anything.  I'll be fine by tomorrow but right now I'm just too bored with my options to eat a single thing.  Yesterday was grand.