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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39806045

Help scheduled for wednesday to lift in the kamado. I left the front beam and breads out for now so we don't have to lift it that high.

The far right has no table top, there i'm gonna place a concrete slab with a castiron grid. Under it will be space for brikettes and my dutch oven(s)/skillets can be placed on the cast iron grid

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[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This isn't merely home improvement - it's a full life upgrade. Looks beautiful! It would be great if you could post some photos when it's completed, as well.

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I will post more later. It's a full patio rebuild. The wish to buy a kamado and make a table for it that also accomodate the ooni and dutch ovens initated it.

The empty space on the right will be storage of ooni and DO's

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As someone who uses Japanese cookware (such as a kamado), I was briefly very confused as to why you would need to build something to home your rice cooker.

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry..... Is "Kamado grill" less confusing? (Damn, that would be one hell of a rice cooker to fit in there)

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

Actually, yes. "Kamado grill" makes me picture a kamado with a grill plate in it. I'm guessing the green egg (which is what I've always heard them called until now) got its name from the ibushigin, which is a kamado designed to (lightly) smoke the contents of the pot rather than to steam rice. The contents sit on a little grill plate in the pot.

And you could feed a village with a rice cooker like that!

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did you join everything with pegs?!

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mostly screws sunken into the legs. The holes are plugged (if you zoom in you might be able to see I need to cut and sand some)

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am slightly less impressed in that case. It’s still gorgeous though.

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Thnx. Peg's ... Traditional. Needs different joints. Challenging, Can see myself building with pegs somewhere down the line.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

It’s such an elegant way of doing it. SO time consuming though. And I’m sure I would screw it up at least the first 15 tries before I got anything resembling ‘acceptable’.