- I paid $180 for a brand new Master Touch with P-vents, even though I’d already paid $130 for a new-in-box Master Touch without P-vents, and could have bought a twice-used Master Touch without P-vents for $60.
- I still haven’t cooked with P-vents
- While I was trying to decide if P-vents were worth the extra money, I bought a $25 22” original kettle after driving over an hour to pick it up, thinking I was buying a 26” kettle (seller kept saying he didn’t know what size it was, just that it was the “big Weber”)
- I’ve cooked and smoked on that $25 almost exclusively since I got it home
- The best steaks I make are on my Jumbo Joe, and I have no plans to ever cook steak on the kettle
- I use lighter fluid to light baskets in the Jumbo Joe
- I let my now-fiancé talk me into letting her use a full full-size chimney in my Smokey Joe… every time she cooked. It isn’t really usable as a grill anymore.
- I taught myself how to cook on my Smokey Joe, bought in 2013
- I miss my Smokey Joe a lot
- I never once felt like the Smokey Joe was too cramped, but I immediately felt like the Jumbo Joe that replaced it was too small. Last night, grilling in the rain during a power outage, I felt like my 22” was too small and now I want a 26”… even though I still haven’t used my Master Touch.
- I want a cool new colored Weber, but I know I’ll get sick at my stomach the moment it starts looking dirty.
- I passed on a used-once 18” WSM last week because I really don’t think I’d use it.
- I’ve never cooked with briquettes, only lump
- I didn’t realize that my dad’s hamburgers tasted the way they did because he used so much lighter fluid until I started grilling for myself in my Smokey Joe.
- I asked for a Smokey Joe Premium for my birthday JUST to have a small grill with a lid bale to cook burgers on.
- I believe Weber CharBaskets are the greatest grilling accessories ever invented and they have changed my grilling life
