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Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Grills & Smokers => Kamado Style Cookers => Topic started by: SteakMart on May 16, 2018, 11:38:13 AM

Title: Cooking Veggies on the Kamado Joe?
Post by: SteakMart on May 16, 2018, 11:38:13 AM
I'm firing up the Kamado Joe for a group of 8 tonight and was interested in everyone's thoughts on grilling up some veggies alongside. I've previously done this with the oven, but curious to know what tastes I can expect. Asparagus, capsicum, and onion were high on the agenda. Cheers!
Title: Re: Cooking Veggies on the Kamado Joe?
Post by: rwalters on May 16, 2018, 11:44:19 AM
Grilled veggies on the JOE are outstanding, especially the veggies that you mentioned!  They blow oven roasted veggies out of the water!  For my tastes, when grilling veggies on a kamado, I prefer to control the heat with the bottom vent, leaving the top vent wide open.  You want a pretty hot fire so this works well.  The reason I do it is because I do not like holding smoke back in the kamado when cooking veggies... the smoke flavor can overtake the veggies IMO.  With the top vent wide open, this doesn't happen :)

Oh yeah, if you don't already have GrillGrates for your JOE, do yourself a favor and get some... they make a huge difference for certain types of cooks, veggies being one of them.

Would love to see pics of this cook (hint, hint) ;)