Scored a demo 26" off craigslist after a local raided a few Homer Depots. Looking forward to "warming up" a couple hams tomorrow.
This one came with no cooking surface so i called weber and they sent me out a new one, no questions asked aside "how did you end up without a grate"? to which i replied "it was a floor model at home depot, they didn't have it". that was 'nuff said aside giving them the wrong letter vent code. honest mistake, i thought it was a 2014, but it turns out to be a 2012. no matter either way.
The only dirty ash bucket i had was a copper one, so i plugged it in there. looks cool, different, probably leave it.
Also put some birdseye maple "smokeburst" finish handles on it and lost the heat shield. (thanks
@SixZeroFour for the idea on that.) but basically i carved them using honed unicorn horns sharpened with bigfoot tears.
I'm looking forward to most of my summer cooks happening on this bad boy.
I'll be using a couple kettles tomorrow, there's baked beans and a green bean/mushroom soup thing, both of which require some CI lovin. So the CI will probably go on a side 22.
Have a great Easter everyone!