Kamado Joe

[Chipper]

So I got giddy and purchased a Kamado Big Joe 3. Now my best mate who’s a full on Yorkshire man is royally taking the piss out of me for spending over £3k on a bbq while I could have spent £5 on tray!

So I put it together today with a help of a mate and I’m currently several pints down and rather smug at my first attempt on the beast.. Had a butcher debone a leg of lamb and rammed it with garlic , rosemary and just salt and pepper. Popped it on the Jotisserie and used a Meater thermometer

Kids devoured it! Truly delicious and on another level with flavor and so juicy. Hugely impressed how easy it all was to control. Chicken wings next Friday and pulled pork on the Saturday.

[Chipper]

[anonymous-user]

Did you say 3k? Typo?!

[Chipper]

[Chipper]

[037]

We love ours. Probably one of our best ever purchases. The ceramic diffusers are the key to most meal on there. You can literally just light the thing. get it to temp, then put on the meat and leave it till its at temp. Wings are mega in there too.

[Chipper]

[Chipper]

037 said:

We love ours. Probably one of our best ever purchases. The ceramic diffusers are the key to most meal on there. You can literally just light the thing. get it to temp, then put on the meat and leave it till its at temp. Wings are mega in there too.

Really enjoyed using it too. Something very satisfactory about using a rotisserie .

[CrgT16]

Not as good as the big green egg!

[Percy Cushion]

It was delicious because you used a meat thermometer, not because of the Kamado.

That said, its your money so you’re call. I’m about to drop half the cost of a Kamado on a new Sony 48” OLED TV.

[noopets]

3 grand?!

[LooneyTunes]

Use mine a great deal over summer when we turn the aga off.

Try whole or spatchcock chicken in it.

Really good, especially once you get the hang of a bit of light smoke (bury a chunk of wood in the main pile of coal so that you get a fine, clean, smoke). Doesn’t dry out like a conventional bbq had a tendency to do.

[dapprman]

I'm a cheapskate with an Aldi Kamado, but after several years I can not see myself without one and if I did become unlucky and need to replace mine then I can see myself going bigger (which also means a LOT more expensive as there are fewer options out there).

[number2]

Seems an appropriately titled thread....

Welcome the new Konnected Joe! https://www.kamadojoe.com/products/konnected-joe#i...

Auto lighting, fan temperature control, graphing... and it's cheaper than the KJ Classic III. The biggest advantage is the built in temp control fan I think, else it's just built in probes, and a heating element to light. Does anyone have difficulty lighting one?!

I love the idea of it, but as long as my KJ3 lasts I can't see me swapping.

Anyone tempted?

[eyebeebe]

number2 said:

Seems an appropriately titled thread....

Welcome the new Konnected Joe! https://www.kamadojoe.com/products/konnected-joe#i...

Auto lighting, fan temperature control, graphing... and it's cheaper than the KJ Classic III. The biggest advantage is the built in temp control fan I think, else it's just built in probes, and a heating element to light. Does anyone have difficulty lighting one?!

I love the idea of it, but as long as my KJ3 lasts I can't see me swapping.

Anyone tempted?

Thanks for posting.

I've got a Monolith LeChef (equivalent of a Big Joe or XL BGE) BBQ-Guru edition and a BBQ-Guru CyberQ combination which is basically what this is mimicking in a more integrated way. It's very good at keeping a steady temperature over a long cook, but does sometimes start to drift up slowly, so it's not as if you can set it and go out for in the morning and come home to pulled pork 10 hours later.

I'm looking at buying a "normal" sized Monolith for our new holiday place in Spain, but probably wasn't going to bother with the extra expense of the BBQ Guru kit in it. It looks like the Konnected works out a bit cheaper than the Monolith plus the extra kit and a Looftlighter, so might have to take a closer look.

[number2]

eyebeebe said:

Thanks for posting.

I've got a Monolith LeChef (equivalent of a Big Joe or XL BGE) BBQ-Guru edition and a BBQ-Guru CyberQ combination which is basically what this is mimicking in a more integrated way. It's very good at keeping a steady temperature over a long cook, but does sometimes start to drift up slowly, so it's not as if you can set it and go out for in the morning and come home to pulled pork 10 hours later.

I'm looking at buying a "normal" sized Monolith for our new holiday place in Spain, but probably wasn't going to bother with the extra expense of the BBQ Guru kit in it. It looks like the Konnected works out a bit cheaper than the Monolith plus the extra kit and a Looftlighter, so might have to take a closer look.

... just flicked back to the page and clicked on "United Kingdom"... it's £1,999 which is a lot more than the pound converted dollar price of $1,699! Slightly cheaper than £2,149 UK price of the Classic though.

It must be nice having an excuse to buy another BBQ. Good call getting the larger version. The 18" grill is fine, but when grilling (rather than smoking/slow cookomg) I often want a bit more space.

[eyebeebe]

number2 said:

... just flicked back to the page and clicked on "United Kingdom"... it's £1,999 which is a lot more than the pound converted dollar price of $1,699! Slightly cheaper than £2,149 UK price of the Classic though.

It must be nice having an excuse to buy another BBQ. Good call getting the larger version. The 18" grill is fine, but when grilling (rather than smoking/slow cookomg) I often want a bit more space.

A lot of the difference is VAT vs. no sales tax in the US, but grills are for sure cheaper in the US.

I watched this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wBuIUMYYWE it seems like they've based this model on the Joe II, so you don't get some of the nice upgrades of the Joe III, which is why it's cheaper. The 3 level grill and the sloroller would be be of interest, so there's some extra cost.

I started taking barbecuing more seriously around 10 years ago and got a decent Weber and then when we moved house I got the Monolith and kept the Weber and have been upgrading it with accessories ever since, including most recently a ridiculously expensive rotisserie attachment that will never ever pay for itself At the holiday place I've actually got sign off to buy a gas grill and a kamado. on the basis that it's not worth lighting the grill for a few prawns I think for holiday use a standard size should be fine. Obviously bigger would be better, but I don't think I can justify the extra expense, particularly if I buy the gas grill too.