What is your favorite outdoor cooking appliance, and why?

We have the Primo XL grill – it’s a ceramic kamado like the BGE, but even larger and made in the USA. We got it 2 years ago and love it. However, we both work and have long commutes, so we don’t use it as much as we like for long, slow and low projects.

@hearkat I’ve heard great things about Primo. I’m just a huge fan of kamado cookers!

I’ve had a Big Green Egg for 8 years, pizzas, pork shoulder, steaks, chicken drumsticks, rib roasts, leg of lamb and lots of roasted vegetables. Not all at the same time.

I cooked on Weber kettles for years. Then my wife bought me a Primo XL for Christmas one year. I didn’t have a clue what it was, nor had I thought about smoking anything since my college days! It took me a while to get a feel for it, but now I love it for low and slow meat like pulled pork. Since then, I bought a cheap gasser for quick stuff, and the Weber sits in the corner collecting cobwebs.

I love my Primo with a DigiQ controller.

Fish & chip shop.

@bossob – I use my Egg for pretty much everything. Hell, I’ll even fire it up for dogs because I just love using it and I love the flavors that lump charcoal provides. I thought, ever so briefly, about getting a cheap gasser for the quick stuff, but I just can’t bring myself to do it. Well, that and my family would kill me for grilling on something else. :-)

@Suspicious_Chihuahua – I find that one down-side to the Primo XL is that it doesn’t light as quickly as the cylindrical-shaped kamados, because it doesn’t have that chimney shape. We use a chimney coal starter but it still takes a while.

@bossob – is the DigiQ made for the Primo? Do you have a link for more information?

I love grilling with charcoal. I love the flavor it imparts. Have never tried the big green egg.

@hearkat – the DigiQ is available for the Egg and Primo.

http://store.thebbqguru.com/weborderentry/DigiQ%20DX2

@hearkat I start mine with one of these; takes less than two minutes.

@bossob- 2 minutes for what?
– for the XL to be up to temperature?
Regardless, we can’t have propane in our complex – one of the reasons we opted for a kamado.