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Asked whether a cast-aluminum kamado holds heat as well as the usual ceramic ones, the Blaze sales manager cites the company's own test. It's a vendor claim, not an independent test.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, not from a helicopter, but we drop it off a loading dock.
Oh, there you go. There you go. Was it different? Was it different to learn to cook on that versus an old style, you know, totally ceramic one?
It takes, you know, I'm not too familiar with the ceramic Kamados, but, you know, coming from the old school Weber Kettle school of, you know, barbecue, right? It took a little bit of learning, but not much. But the beauty of our Kamado, too, is you can use it as a smoker. It comes with, it's got a center grate. You could buy an optional heat deflector and put that over the charcoal and it's get that nice rolling smoke. You can use it as a straight charcoal grill. It's very versatile. And then the question we get on that one all the time is how well does it hold heat compared to you know a ceramic counterpart? And I would say it holds heat just as well, if not better. We did a test on it with 10 pounds of lump coal. We got it to about 250 degrees, a nice smoking temperature, let it roll, and it held that temperature for almost 28 hours.
Wow.
And so, yeah, it holds heat just fine. When the temperature started to drop, we shut it down. We still had almost two pounds of charcoal left in it.
Is it hard to, if you're doing a long cook, for example, Jim, say you're going to do a brisket? And I will confess something here. Excuse me. I use pellet grills a lot. One, they were kind of came from my neck of the woods. I have charcoal. I have gas. I have wood. This is what I do. But does I…