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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 20,690
    edited August 2022
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    Man I don't know. Hobby I guess. Lol. Some people collect guns some cars or pocket knives I guess grills for me. I enjoy cooking out. 
    Good enough! I'm jealous!
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    Getting close , got to decide what to put on top rail behind eggs. 
    I don't think you have enough eggs. I see empty spots where you could put them. :lol:

    Seriously though...that is one awesome setup. Someone asked before up there, but why so many eggs?

    tcampbell said:
    Getting close , got to decide what to put on top rail behind eggs. 
    I don't think you have enough eggs. I see empty spots where you could put them. :lol:

    Seriously though...that is one awesome setup. Someone asked before up there, but why so
    many eggs?                                                                  Man I don't know. Hobby I guess. Lol.  Some people collect guns some cars or pocket knives I guess grills for me. I enjoy cooking out. 
    Man I don't know. Hobby I guess. Lol. Some people collect guns some cars or pocket knives I guess grills for me. I enjoy cooking out. 
    I love it!  No need to justify to us.  You are among friends.




    Wow looks awesome. 
    Thank you, just finished it a few months ago.  Its been getting a lot of use.
    Is the big egg xl or XXL? Hard to tell in pic. 
    That is an XL.  It looks bigger, because the other one built in is a medium, not a L.
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    Man I don't know. Hobby I guess. Lol. Some people collect guns some cars or pocket knives I guess grills for me. I enjoy cooking out. 
    Good enough! I'm jealous!
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    Getting close , got to decide what to put on top rail behind eggs. 
    I don't think you have enough eggs. I see empty spots where you could put them. :lol:

    Seriously though...that is one awesome setup. Someone asked before up there, but why so many eggs?

    tcampbell said:
    Getting close , got to decide what to put on top rail behind eggs. 
    I don't think you have enough eggs. I see empty spots where you could put them. :lol:

    Seriously though...that is one awesome setup. Someone asked before up there, but why so
    many eggs?                                                                  Man I don't know. Hobby I guess. Lol.  Some people collect guns some cars or pocket knives I guess grills for me. I enjoy cooking out. 
    Man I don't know. Hobby I guess. Lol. Some people collect guns some cars or pocket knives I guess grills for me. I enjoy cooking out. 
    I love it!  No need to justify to us.  You are among friends.




    Wow looks awesome. 
    Thank you, just finished it a few months ago.  Its been getting a lot of use.
    Is the big egg xl or XXL? Hard to tell in pic. 
    That is an XL.  It looks bigger, because the other one built in is a medium, not a L.
    You use the medium the most? 
    Out of the eggs, I use it the medium the most.  Right now I probably use my pizza oven more than any of the eggs.  The power burner also gets a lot of use.

    Maybe your purpose in life is only to serve as an example for others? - LPL


  • tcampbell
    tcampbell Posts: 771
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    Man I don't know. Hobby I guess. Lol. Some people collect guns some cars or pocket knives I guess grills for me. I enjoy cooking out. 
    Good enough! I'm jealous!
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    Getting close , got to decide what to put on top rail behind eggs. 
    I don't think you have enough eggs. I see empty spots where you could put them. :lol:

    Seriously though...that is one awesome setup. Someone asked before up there, but why so many eggs?

    tcampbell said:
    Getting close , got to decide what to put on top rail behind eggs. 
    I don't think you have enough eggs. I see empty spots where you could put them. :lol:

    Seriously though...that is one awesome setup. Someone asked before up there, but why so
    many eggs?                                                                  Man I don't know. Hobby I guess. Lol.  Some people collect guns some cars or pocket knives I guess grills for me. I enjoy cooking out. 
    Man I don't know. Hobby I guess. Lol. Some people collect guns some cars or pocket knives I guess grills for me. I enjoy cooking out. 
    I love it!  No need to justify to us.  You are among friends.




    Wow looks awesome. 
    Thank you, just finished it a few months ago.  Its been getting a lot of use.
    Is the big egg xl or XXL? Hard to tell in pic. 
    That is an XL.  It looks bigger, because the other one built in is a medium, not a L.
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    Man I don't know. Hobby I guess. Lol. Some people collect guns some cars or pocket knives I guess grills for me. I enjoy cooking out. 
    Good enough! I'm jealous!
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    Getting close , got to decide what to put on top rail behind eggs. 
    I don't think you have enough eggs. I see empty spots where you could put them. :lol:

    Seriously though...that is one awesome setup. Someone asked before up there, but why so many eggs?

    tcampbell said:
    Getting close , got to decide what to put on top rail behind eggs. 
    I don't think you have enough eggs. I see empty spots where you could put them. :lol:

    Seriously though...that is one awesome setup. Someone asked before up there, but why so
    many eggs?                                                                  Man I don't know. Hobby I guess. Lol.  Some people collect guns some cars or pocket knives I guess grills for me. I enjoy cooking out. 
    Man I don't know. Hobby I guess. Lol. Some people collect guns some cars or pocket knives I guess grills for me. I enjoy cooking out. 
    I love it!  No need to justify to us.  You are among friends.




    Wow looks awesome. 
    Thank you, just finished it a few months ago.  Its been getting a lot of use.
    Is the big egg xl or XXL? Hard to tell in pic. 
    That is an XL.  It looks bigger, because the other one built in is a medium, not a L.
    You use the medium the most? 
    Out of the eggs, I use it the medium the most.  Right now I probably use my pizza oven more than any of the eggs.  The power burner also gets a lot of use.
    Show me the rest of it so I can see pizza oven and power burner. Please. 
  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 20,690
    Out of the eggs, I use it the medium the most.  Right now I probably use my pizza oven more than any of the eggs.  The power burner also gets a lot of use.
    Show me the rest of it so I can see pizza oven and power burner. Please. 


    Here are a few more pics to help see the layout.



    Maybe your purpose in life is only to serve as an example for others? - LPL


  • tcampbell
    tcampbell Posts: 771
    Out of the eggs, I use it the medium the most.  Right now I probably use my pizza oven more than any of the eggs.  The power burner also gets a lot of use.
    Show me the rest of it so I can see pizza oven and power burner. Please. 


    Here are a few more pics to help see the layout.



    That's huge and really nice. Is the burner alfresco? Where do you live? It's very pretty. 
  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 20,690
    tcampbell said:
    Out of the eggs, I use it the medium the most.  Right now I probably use my pizza oven more than any of the eggs.  The power burner also gets a lot of use.
    Show me the rest of it so I can see pizza oven and power burner. Please. 


    Here are a few more pics to help see the layout.



    That's huge and really nice. Is the burner alfresco? Where do you live? It's very pretty. 
    Power Burner is an ARG Pro Burner
    Griddle is a 30" Le Griddle 2-burner
    Pizza Oven is Forno Ventezia Pronto 200 (wish I had gone bigger)

    Live in Arizona, so I cook outside most days of the week.  Sometimes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

    Maybe your purpose in life is only to serve as an example for others? - LPL


  • tcampbell
    tcampbell Posts: 771
    tcampbell said:
    Out of the eggs, I use it the medium the most.  Right now I probably use my pizza oven more than any of the eggs.  The power burner also gets a lot of use.
    Show me the rest of it so I can see pizza oven and power burner. Please. 


    Here are a few more pics to help see the layout.



    That's huge and really nice. Is the burner alfresco? Where do you live? It's very pretty. 
    Power Burner is an ARG Pro Burner
    Griddle is a 30" Le Griddle 2-burner
    Pizza Oven is Forno Ventezia Pronto 200 (wish I had gone bigger)

    Live in Arizona, so I cook outside most days of the week.  Sometimes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
    Ok I see now I thought the griddle was a gas grill. Nice. I have a griddle for my power burner that lets the grease drip into a drip pan below burner . Works pretty good and cleans up easy.  I'll have to say you got the nicest I've ever seen. You got it all. Unbelievable really. 
  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 20,690
    edited August 2022
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    Out of the eggs, I use it the medium the most.  Right now I probably use my pizza oven more than any of the eggs.  The power burner also gets a lot of use.
    Show me the rest of it so I can see pizza oven and power burner. Please. 


    Here are a few more pics to help see the layout.



    That's huge and really nice. Is the burner alfresco? Where do you live? It's very pretty. 
    Power Burner is an ARG Pro Burner
    Griddle is a 30" Le Griddle 2-burner
    Pizza Oven is Forno Ventezia Pronto 200 (wish I had gone bigger)

    Live in Arizona, so I cook outside most days of the week.  Sometimes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
    Ok I see now I thought the griddle was a gas grill. Nice. I have a griddle for my power burner that lets the grease drip into a drip pan below burner . Works pretty good and cleans up easy.  I'll have to say you got the nicest I've ever seen. You got it all. Unbelievable really. 
    I doubt it is the nicest.  Biggest maybe.  There are some absolutely stunning outdoor kitchen/dinning areas on this forum, yours included.  I love to see what/how people have done theirs.  I was fortunate enough to have plenty of space, and an understanding wife.  I already know the things I would do different next time.

    Maybe your purpose in life is only to serve as an example for others? - LPL


  • SonVolt
    SonVolt Posts: 3,316
    edited August 2022
    I have that same Alfresco side-burner with the teppanyaki (griddle) attachment.  Probably the best line of outdoor kitchen gear available outside of Kalamazoo & GrillWorks. I checked the prices on Alresco's grills 'n such the other day and about fainted. Everything's almost doubled in price since I made my purchase. 
    South of Nashville  -  BGE XL  -  Alfresco 42" ALXE  -  Alfresco Versa Burner  - Sunbeam Microwave 
  • tcampbell
    tcampbell Posts: 771
    SonVolt said:
    I have that same Alfresco side-burner with the teppanyaki (griddle) attachment.  Probably the best line of outdoor kitchen gear available outside of Kalamazoo & GrillWorks. I checked the prices on Alresco's grills 'n such the other day and about fainted. Everything's almost doubled in price since I made my purchase. 
    Yes I didn't want to pay that much for a burner but I'm glad I bought it. It's really nice. I love doing seafood boils it will do the job.. Yes Kalamazoo is crazy pricing I'm sure it's top of the line and worth it, I just know it's way over my head. I have a Weber summit for a gas and it's a pretty good grill for the money I guess. 
  • tcampbell
    tcampbell Posts: 771
    tcampbell said:
    SonVolt said:
    I have that same Alfresco side-burner with the teppanyaki (griddle) attachment.  Probably the best line of outdoor kitchen gear available outside of Kalamazoo & GrillWorks. I checked the prices on Alresco's grills 'n such the other day and about fainted. Everything's almost doubled in price since I made my purchase. 
    Yes I didn't want to pay that much for a burner but I'm glad I bought it. It's really nice. I love doing seafood boils it will do the job.. Yes Kalamazoo is crazy pricing I'm sure it's top of the line and worth it, I just know it's way over my head. I have a Weber summit for a gas and it's a pretty good grill for the money I guess. 
    It is a handy cooker , I deed fried crappy on it tonight 
  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 20,690
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    SonVolt said:
    I have that same Alfresco side-burner with the teppanyaki (griddle) attachment.  Probably the best line of outdoor kitchen gear available outside of Kalamazoo & GrillWorks. I checked the prices on Alresco's grills 'n such the other day and about fainted. Everything's almost doubled in price since I made my purchase. 
    Yes I didn't want to pay that much for a burner but I'm glad I bought it. It's really nice. I love doing seafood boils it will do the job.. Yes Kalamazoo is crazy pricing I'm sure it's top of the line and worth it, I just know it's way over my head. I have a Weber summit for a gas and it's a pretty good grill for the money I guess. 
    It is a handy cooker , I deed fried crappy on it tonight 
    Used my burner tonight too.  Bacon & potato egg fried rice.  Crisp the bacon, fry potatoes in the bacon grease, carmelize onions, then quick fried egg.  Then do rice and incorporate it all back in.


    Maybe your purpose in life is only to serve as an example for others? - LPL


  • tcampbell
    tcampbell Posts: 771
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    SonVolt said:
    I have that same Alfresco side-burner with the teppanyaki (griddle) attachment.  Probably the best line of outdoor kitchen gear available outside of Kalamazoo & GrillWorks. I checked the prices on Alresco's grills 'n such the other day and about fainted. Everything's almost doubled in price since I made my purchase. 
    Yes I didn't want to pay that much for a burner but I'm glad I bought it. It's really nice. I love doing seafood boils it will do the job.. Yes Kalamazoo is crazy pricing I'm sure it's top of the line and worth it, I just know it's way over my head. I have a Weber summit for a gas and it's a pretty good grill for the money I guess. 
    It is a handy cooker , I deed fried crappy on it tonight 
    Used my burner tonight too.  Bacon & potato egg fried rice.  Crisp the bacon, fry potatoes in the bacon grease, carmelize onions, then quick fried egg.  Then do rice and incorporate it all back in.


    I want to figure out how to do that. Do you remove other ingredients when doing rice? Do you use very high heat? I don't know the correct steps etc. 
  • SonVolt
    SonVolt Posts: 3,316
    edited August 2022
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    SonVolt said:
    I have that same Alfresco side-burner with the teppanyaki (griddle) attachment.  Probably the best line of outdoor kitchen gear available outside of Kalamazoo & GrillWorks. I checked the prices on Alresco's grills 'n such the other day and about fainted. Everything's almost doubled in price since I made my purchase. 
    Yes I didn't want to pay that much for a burner but I'm glad I bought it. It's really nice. I love doing seafood boils it will do the job.. Yes Kalamazoo is crazy pricing I'm sure it's top of the line and worth it, I just know it's way over my head. I have a Weber summit for a gas and it's a pretty good grill for the money I guess. 
    It is a handy cooker , I deed fried crappy on it tonight 
    Used my burner tonight too.  Bacon & potato egg fried rice.  Crisp the bacon, fry potatoes in the bacon grease, carmelize onions, then quick fried egg.  Then do rice and incorporate it all back in.


    I want to figure out how to do that. Do you remove other ingredients when doing rice? Do you use very high heat? I don't know the correct steps etc. 

    Here's a similar recipe that goes over the steps.  This guy just released a really good cookbook on Wok cooking. 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_IUu2PmofY&ab_channel=J.KenjiL%C3%B3pez-Alt
    South of Nashville  -  BGE XL  -  Alfresco 42" ALXE  -  Alfresco Versa Burner  - Sunbeam Microwave 
  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 20,690
    edited August 2022
    @tcampbell , @SonVolt gave you the best advice.  Kenji alt-Lopez has the best videos for technique I have seen.  My bacon fried rice is a riff off of Kenji's above video.  I added potatoes to make it like the Asian equivalent of a breakfast burrito.

    Short answer, I cook egg in peanut oil then remove, cook bacon next,  remove, then fry potatoes in bacon fat and extra peanut oil.  Remove potatoes and toss in onions into wok.  Once they have softened I add in the rice and bump heat up and toss.  Then I incorporate egg, bacon, and potatoes.  Keep heat up and toss, add in light & dark soy to taste.  Then a bit of Shaoxing wine (all liquid added around edge so it flows down and reduces before it hits the rice).  Then I reduce heat and add in scallions.

    It is simple and quick.  Took longer to write the above almost than to cook it all.

    Maybe your purpose in life is only to serve as an example for others? - LPL


  • tcampbell
    tcampbell Posts: 771
    SonVolt said:
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    tcampbell said:
    SonVolt said:
    I have that same Alfresco side-burner with the teppanyaki (griddle) attachment.  Probably the best line of outdoor kitchen gear available outside of Kalamazoo & GrillWorks. I checked the prices on Alresco's grills 'n such the other day and about fainted. Everything's almost doubled in price since I made my purchase. 
    Yes I didn't want to pay that much for a burner but I'm glad I bought it. It's really nice. I love doing seafood boils it will do the job.. Yes Kalamazoo is crazy pricing I'm sure it's top of the line and worth it, I just know it's way over my head. I have a Weber summit for a gas and it's a pretty good grill for the money I guess. 
    It is a handy cooker , I deed fried crappy on it tonight 
    Used my burner tonight too.  Bacon & potato egg fried rice.  Crisp the bacon, fry potatoes in the bacon grease, carmelize onions, then quick fried egg.  Then do rice and incorporate it all back in.


    I want to figure out how to do that. Do you remove other ingredients when doing rice? Do you use very high heat? I don't know the correct steps etc. 

    Here's a similar recipe that goes over the steps.  This guy just released a really good cookbook on Wok cooking. 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_IUu2PmofY&ab_channel=J.KenjiL%C3%B3pez-Alt
    Thanks 
  • tcampbell
    tcampbell Posts: 771
    @tcampbell , @SonVolt gave you the best advice.  Kenji alt-Lopez has the best videos for technique I have seen.  My bacon fried rice is a riff off of Kenji's above video.  I added potatoes to make it like the Asian equivalent of a breakfast burrito.

    Short answer, I cook egg in peanut oil then remove, cook bacon next,  remove, then fry potatoes in bacon fat and extra peanut oil.  Remove potatoes and toss in onions into wok.  Once they have softened I add in the rice and bump heat up and toss.  Then I incorporate egg, bacon, and potatoes.  Keep heat up and toss, add in light & dark soy to taste.  Then a bit of Shaoxing wine (all liquid added around edge so it flows down and reduces before it hits the rice).  Then I reduce heat and add in scallions.

    It is simple and quick.  Took longer to write the above almost than to cook it all.
    Thanks. 
  • jonessteave
    jonessteave Posts: 88
    edited March 7
    We are thinking of purchasing a camping kitchen for cooking outdoors. Really don't need a stove stand since our stove moves outside and attaches to the side of the PUP. Just something to do prep work and set stuff up on. Recommendations for Home remodeling contractor Mukilteo wa? Also, I see some of them have a sink basin built in, of course we have the sink in the PUP so probably don't need that outdoor also, unless for washing veggies and such off?
  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 34,080
    He/she/it is back!  
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period.
  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 12,249
    lousubcap said:
    He/she/it is back!  
    Perfect anniversary gift  ;)
    canuckland