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In Reply to: What's the fuss about the Komodo Kamado posted by Tex on September 16, 2009 at 17:26:47:
Comments on your comments, :-)
--- IMO at the end of the day its the end product that matters to me the most - and in this case its the food. Spending extra cash because of the hardware would be a hard case to make for me.
* I bought a 2000 Jenn Air gas range. I could have bought a $6000
* Viking. You pay what you are willing to pay. A Yugo will get you
* from A to B, but a Mercedes might make the trip a little more pleasant.
-- Now this seems like a little bit of marketing hype. Is this another way of saying its porous? If not, does someone have pictures of the "spheres"?
* It's a way of saying the adhesive is elastic, it can move/flex. It's
* not hype, it's just a much better adhesive than the traditional
* stuff used by the competitor which has tiles falling off. To my
* knowledge, almost no cooker (if any) have had times come off. And
* like I said before, part of Kamado's problems were a manufacturing/
* design problem of putting tiles on portland cement that wasn't completely
* dried/cured.
-- I still have a hard time with the use of cement in this cooker. It may not have asbestos, but the KK seems to have greatly deviated from the original 3000 year old designs and materials.
* It's not cement. It's refractory materials. Neither BGE nor Primo
* nor Grill Dome are using 3000 year old materials. Probably the
* only cooker that does might be the Imperial Kamado. But you can't
* get it as hot as any of the rest. If you don't feel comfortable
* with refractory materials, I don't know how we can make you feel
* comfortable. Harbison Walker would probably have told Komodo Kamado
* not to use their materials if they weren't safe around food. Rutland
* told BGE not to use its gaskets on BGE cookers.
-- Why is there even a rotisserie in this unit? Aren't all these cookers suppose to cook more evenly because of convection? Does the KK not distribute heat as effectively? Or is this just a marketing tactic used by the company to add a "feature"?
* The rotisserie is an option. If you don't want or need one, you
* don't have to buy one. I don't have one. The little opening for
* the rotisserie is easy to ignore.
--What kind of warranty does the KK have? From what I have read on other forums, the KK requires "proper grout maintaience" or else will not warranty the cooker. Again this is my concern with the tiles. Why doesn't KK use a glaze? Seems like this would just be simpler and would last much longer.
* I don't know about the warrantee (but see below), but the reason for
* the tiles is that the cookers look fantastic. I have a textured
* model (no longer in production), and I wish I had a tiled version.
* Again, some people might be happy with a one-color paint job on a
* Yugo, others will pay for a two-tone metallic finish with lots of
* spiffy chrome, etc.
A little more on the warrantee and customer service. Dennis Linkletter (owner) provides the best service in the business. Period. I know of at least 3 occasions on which one of his cookers arrived at the customer's location with minor/repairable shipping damage. Dennis could have shipped a new top or new bottom, (or perhaps offered a discount and advice on reparing the damage) but instead, he shipped the customer a whole new cooker. If there is something wrong, Dennis makes it right. Period. If I were buying a KK from Dennis, the LAST thing I would worry about is the warrantee. He has been making these cookers now for 5 or 6 years, and he has a reputation for honesty and tip top service. You can check the warrantee information on his website, and obviously you should perform any maintenance that KK says to perform, but again, it's a matter of choice whether or not you want the look of tile, and perhaps any maintenance that goes with it.
Doug