Let's Talk BBQ
Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Grills & Smokers => Charcoal Grills => Topic started by: rexster314 on January 28, 2017, 12:27:23 PM
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I've been lusting after one of these grills since I saw the first ad for them. I have the original PK that I purchased about 4 years ago. That's been my go to grill for the last year or so.
Anyways, my lust got the better of me yesterday and with my wife's approval, ordered the 360 grill. As luck would have it, it's due to be shipped on 2 /15 so I shouldn't have too much of a wait for it. I've been watching Youtube vids about it so should be pretty familiar with it by the time it arrives.
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I am waiting to see some of your cooks off of it.
PS BTW congrats of your order.
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Congrats! :)
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Congrats
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I am very happy with my PK360, and suspect you will be too.
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Fedex delivers!! It was picked up at the factory yesterday morning, Arrived this morning little more than 24 hours. Your mileage may vary.
First off, this is the best packaged item I believe I have ever seen. Absolutely no moving/shifting parts. The foam inserts were tight and the parts were well packaged.
I'm attaching some pictures taken while uboxing and assembly. There's several videos on yourtube that contain much more, I didn't care about re-inventing the wheel.
Assembly is pretty much straight forward, didn't refer to instructions at all, From unzipping the boxes to assembly was probably 45 minutes or less.
The last picture is about a chimney and half of lump charcoal burning in the grill. It took about 10 minutes to get to MED as the image indicates The last picture was taken about 20 minutes later.
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That is a thing of beauty
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Congrats! I am Jealous :D
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That is a beauty.
I sure like the new vent control design which should making adjusting a snap. :)
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It is a better-looking grill than you described.
VERY NICE!
Congratulations!
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Congrats
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Question for the PK 360 owners.
Do you see anyway to hook up a fan for the Rock's Stoker Controller?
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I took a look at the website. Other than cutting a hole or somehow mounting it to one of the air intakes on the grill, I would think it's a no go. For long smokes I can see where it would come in handy.
I adapted a 2" hvac pipe and a 3" computer fan to fit inside my MES 40" smoker to get more air for the AMZNTS I use when doing bacon. I suppose something like that could be adapted to one of the intakes. But if you get the air intakes adjusted properly with the draw, I don't think you would need it.
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Great lookin' grill, Rex. Can't wait to what you can do with it ! ! !
BD
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Great lookin' grill, Rex. Can't wait to what you can do with it ! ! !
BD
This was the first cook with it. Couple of wagyu steaks from our HEB. Ribs and sausage tomorrow.
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Congrats! It's a beauty! :thumbup:
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Congratulations. They are a nice grill. I got one right before Christmas and have done a few cooks so far. Are they still numbering these grills or did they stop with the initial orders?
Do the black shelves seem pretty durable? Mine has the ironwood shelves but I didn't know how durable they will be long term. I was thinking of maybe trying to get a set of the black ones so I can preserve the wood ones.
Here is a metal bucket I bought at Home Depot that works very well with the PK360 for sweeping the ash into. Here is a link. http://www.homedepot.com/p/United-Solutions-5-qt-Metal-Pail-with-Handle-PN0129/300236365
I just bent the handle down a little so the sides near the attachment point flared out slightly and it fits perfectly over the two hooks on either side of the ash sweepout hole in the bottom of the grill. I just leave mine attached after dumping the ash.
The other night I cooked on my PK360 and my original style PK at the same time. I really love both of these grills. Anyway, enjoy it.
Wayne
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No numbers anymore. Fired it up yesterday and when I use lump charcoal I get a lot of sparklers blowing out. Lot of them landed on the shelves, I thought it would leave some little burn marks on them, but wiped up with no problems. I did some brats and grilled onions/peppers tonight and turned out great. I used a 12" oval comal to grill the veggies and it worked very well. Afterwards, I put a whole chicken seasoned with Maceo's Honey Brown's BBQ rub on using indirect cooking and it's coming along nicely.
Gonna look for that bucket at local HD tomorrow, thanks!
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Those 360's are sweet cookers! Look forward to watching you enjoy and show it off :)
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I had a lot of sparks land on my shelves the other night from the chimney and I was worried that I would get some burn marks but as far as I could tell there were none.
The buckets were a new item at my Home Depot and were with the plastic buckets in the paint section.
Let us know how the chicken turned out. I've reversed seared some filet Mignon on mine a couple of times but that is the extent of my cooking indirect on this grill so far. Once it starts getting warmer, I will try some more indirect cooking on it. Thanks for the info and enjoy it.
Wayne
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It was late, when I took the chicken off it had a great smoke on the outer skin, thigh was nice and juicy as was the breast. Nominal temp was 165 when I took it off. Wife proclaimed it excellent, as I'm not much a fan of chicken fixed anyway. But it did look good enough to eat
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It was late, when I took the chicken off it had a great smoke on the outer skin, thigh was nice and juicy as was the breast. Nominal temp was 165 when I took it off. Wife proclaimed it excellent, as I'm not much a fan of chicken fixed anyway. But it did look good enough to eat
:( Where are the pictures??? :(
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:( Where are the pictures??? :(
Like I said, it was late and didn't feel like futzing about with the phone. I'm doing ribs tonight, pics to follow
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:( Where are the pictures??? :(
Like I said, it was late and didn't feel like futzing about with the phone. I'm doing ribs tonight, pics to follow
Thank you sir. :) ;D
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Tonight's feast. St Louis style ribs, beans smoked in the MES and SV potato salad. Sweet red onions. My stomach is hitting the ceiling fan right now
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Those ribs look great as well as the rest of the meal. How long did you cook them for and at what temp? Did you use a rib rack? I have not cooked ribs yet on mine but I want to try it out the next time I do cook ribs.
I have a PK rib rack but I didn't know if I need to turn the rack part way through the cook or not. I usually cook ribs on my PBC or Good One Open Range.
Wayne
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I started out with the rib rack, but the ends of the ribs at the top of the rack were getting really overdone. Halfway through I took them out and laid them on the normal rack. Cooked more evenly in my opinion that way. I started out with 300 on the dial but it evened out around 250/275
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Good looking cook and meal. :thumbup:
Thanks for posting.
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I started out with the rib rack, but the ends of the ribs at the top of the rack were getting really overdone. Halfway through I took them out and laid them on the normal rack. Cooked more evenly in my opinion that way. I started out with 300 on the dial but it evened out around 250/275
Thanks for the information. How long was your cook? I wonder if you would have still gotten the tops overdone if you would have cooked at a little lower temps?
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Question for the PK 360 owners.
Do you see anyway to hook up a fan for the Rock's Stoker Controller?
It would be pretty easy to mount a fan onto one end of one of the tubes, and plug the other end.
I may create a fan mount with one of my 3D printers.. I have been using a Bbqguru Procomm 4 unit for many years, so I will try that fan mount first.
There's no particular rush for me, as I bought the PK360 primarily for high temp grilling, and leave the low and slow cooking to my Blazn Grid Iron. I have also given some thought about options for routing probe wires...
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No numbers anymore. Fired it up yesterday and when I use lump charcoal I get a lot of sparklers blowing out. Lot of them landed on the shelves, I thought it would leave some little burn marks on them, but wiped up with no problems. I did some brats and grilled onions/peppers tonight and turned out great. I used a 12" oval comal to grill the veggies and it worked very well. Afterwards, I put a whole chicken seasoned with Maceo's Honey Brown's BBQ rub on using indirect cooking and it's coming along nicely.
Gonna look for that bucket at local HD tomorrow, thanks!
I'm surprised that yours doesn't have numbers because I have been seeing some posts on the PK grill FB page that shows the build date and number on the back side of the lid on the newest 360's with the black shelves. There was one person who got l think #208 and some BBQ store in TX had 600 and something.
Did you ever find the bucket that I talked about?
Wayne
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Congrats on your new toy.. I've been keeping my on it too.. One day it shall be mine as well..
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I'm surprised that yours doesn't have numbers because I have been seeing some posts on the PK grill FB page that shows the build date and number on the back side of the lid on the newest 360's with the black shelves. There was one person who got l think #208 and some BBQ store in TX had 600 and something.
Did you ever find the bucket that I talked about?
Wayne
Slap me silly, I just went outside and checked the back of the lid, and sure enough "11-20-16 #656" engraved on a kinda plate. I didn't pay attention to it while putting it together.
Yep, got the can, bent the wire bail enough and it hangs perfectly on the ears of the grill
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Well, I'm glad that you found the number and I'm glad that PK continued to put numbers on the grills because I think initially, they only planned on putting them on the limited edition grills. I have #73
I'm glad the bucket worked out. In my opinion, it's the perfect size.
Wayne
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So what are the results with the new PK 360 grill? Is it better for two zone cooking (indirect) or direct. Is the cooking grate too close to the charcoal grate (resulting in burned food)? Does it work better with charcoal briquets or lump? How about the optional grill grates, anyone try those?
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Here is a metal bucket I bought at Home Depot that works very well with the PK360 for sweeping the ash into. Here is a link. http://www.homedepot.com/p/United-Solutions-5-qt-Metal-Pail-with-Handle-PN0129/300236365
I just bent the handle down a little so the sides near the attachment point flared out slightly and it fits perfectly over the two hooks on either side of the ash sweepout hole in the bottom of the grill. I just leave mine attached after dumping the ash.
Wayne
After watching the bucket rust badly, I found this on Amazon today that fits the bill.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000GDTRD2/ref=asc_df_B000GDXH7E5155823/?tag=hyprod-20&creative=394997&creativeASIN=B000GDXH7E&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167152134657&hvpos=1o6&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10497464437735107599&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027788&hvtargid=pla-306093605704&th=1
(https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000GDTRD2/ref=asc_df_B000GDXH7E5155823/?tag=hyprod-20&creative=394997&creativeASIN=B000GDXH7E&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167152134657&hvpos=1o6&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10497464437735107599&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027788&hvtargid=pla-306093605704&th=1)
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Here is a metal bucket I bought at Home Depot that works very well with the PK360 for sweeping the ash into. Here is a link. http://www.homedepot.com/p/United-Solutions-5-qt-Metal-Pail-with-Handle-PN0129/300236365
I just bent the handle down a little so the sides near the attachment point flared out slightly and it fits perfectly over the two hooks on either side of the ash sweepout hole in the bottom of the grill. I just leave mine attached after dumping the ash.
Wayne
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000GDTRD2/ref=asc_df_B000GDXH7E5155823/?tag=hyprod-20&creative=394997&creativeASIN=B000GDXH7E&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167152134657&hvpos=1o6&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10497464437735107599&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027788&hvtargid=pla-306093605704&th=1
(https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000GDTRD2/ref=asc_df_B000GDXH7E5155823/?tag=hyprod-20&creative=394997&creativeASIN=B000GDXH7E&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167152134657&hvpos=1o6&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10497464437735107599&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027788&hvtargid=pla-306093605704&th=1)
I haven't even payed attention to my bucket. I have one of the new PK covers on my grill as well as it sits under a carport so it doesn't get much weather on it. If it starts rusting, I will get the Amazon one.
After watching the bucket rust badly, I found this on Amazon today that fits the bill