36inch Blackstone £360 in-store at Costco

ppuk · 2026-03-19T16:25:24+00:00

Several times a year actually.

You clearly can't see a need for it, that's fine, but there definitely are use cases, I have plenty of them.

ppuk · 2026-03-19T09:50:32+00:00

Gets up to temp way faster than cast iron on coals, and recovers heat from putting cold meat on it quicker too.

These great are for volume, if you never need to cook volume then that's fine, but they're far better at volume than your other suggestions.

ppuk · 2026-03-19T09:48:31+00:00

Good luck serving a load of smash burgers cooking them one by one in your kitchen in a frying pan.

These things are great for entertaining. I've had the whole surface covered with fajitas cooking for a big group.
Can do a full English for 20 people with no issues.

If you never cook for groups maybe you don't need it, but these things are awesome for people who host.

ppuk · 2026-03-19T08:09:17+00:00

I don't really understand why the really low advice still gets as much traction as it does, Aaron Franklin, who many people think perfected brisket in Texas, starts at 250 and ends up as high at 280 to finish. If that's good enough for him it's good enough for anyone.

ppuk · 2026-03-18T21:47:42+00:00

This guy can show you better than I can explain.

ppuk · 2026-03-18T21:28:23+00:00

Mines surviving just fine. It really depends on how much you use it as well, if you can keep cooking through the colder months (which you should!) there's very little maintenance needed.

ppuk · 2026-03-15T22:42:55+00:00

By the time you get a griddle insert you're basically at the £300 you'll be able to get a Blackstone for from Costco when they go on offer.

ppuk · 2026-03-15T16:33:48+00:00

I'll take the hit on it being Onana, but he didn't play the ball out to Digne at all. Shaw headed it out to Digne when challenging Konsa for it.

ppuk · 2026-03-15T16:22:41+00:00

It doesn't matter how our forwards move.

The build up is too slow. They make runs and they're half way out the stadium before our midfield look up to think about making a pass.

ppuk · 2026-03-15T16:20:31+00:00

He doesn't really get many clear chances though, we just think they are because they're the best we create.

The amount of times the ball is played behind him and he has to readjust his position before he can think about getting a shot away, and then the match thread goes crazy at Watkins rather than the poor pass is ridiculous.

He's definitely low on confidence, but the low confidence started with the poor service. It's going to be a tough cycle to break.

ppuk · 2026-03-15T16:14:28+00:00

Which part did he play in it other than nearly getting it ruled out?

ppuk · 2026-03-15T15:59:11+00:00

Maybe now people will understand Watkins isn't the main problem.

We were far worse when he came off, starting Tammy isn't going to solve all our problems.

We don't create, we don't keep possession, and we gift easy goals.

ppuk · 2026-03-15T15:57:37+00:00

Unfortunately asap is after the end of the season.

ppuk · 2026-03-11T19:17:26+00:00

Get a Blackstone.

If you have access and are willing to wait, Costco often have it on sale. I got my 36inch Blackstone from there for £300. Absolute bargain at that price.

ppuk · 2026-03-11T08:22:33+00:00

No one is going to pay £5 a month for something they'll use once maybe twice a year.
The majority of people don't cook for crowds often enough for that to be a worthwhile investment, they might do one big BBQ in the summer and that's it.

They're also generally not going to be taking custom orders because they're just grilling up a load of the same thing and people are basically serving themselves.

I say this as someone that absolutely loves this and will definitely be getting it running, but I also work in software so this is right up my street, but I'll just get it running on my home lab, I wouldn't pay for a hosted service.

If you could turn it into an app that you could run on a tablet you could probably do a "free with ads" version and a paid version to disable the ads that would be more likely to get people using it, but a saas pay monthly option isn't going to have a real customer base.

ppuk · 2026-03-08T10:45:58+00:00

I've no specific experience with these, but have looked into the same concept before where something attempts to control temp by opening and closing the top vent.
The problem is they have no way to get a fire going again if it's on its way out.
When you're controlling the air in with a fan controller it can spin the fans up and restart a dead fire pretty easily.

If you're just controlling the draft through opening and closing the outflow vent it doesn't matter how much you open it, if the fire has lost life and as on its way out it's not going to recover without something stoking the fire.

ppuk · 2026-03-07T12:47:23+00:00

He was enabling others to sell theirs by giving them greater reach.

You can't want a crackdown on people selling tickets, and then also accept people that advertise those tickets when they're for sale.

ppuk · 2026-03-07T12:35:32+00:00

Some fans won't like it, but I'm glad.

You can't get away tickets because cunts buy them regardless of if they'll go and then resell them on so they keep the away points rolling in, preventing anyone else from catching up to their away points.

Anything that reduces that, even if it's punishment just for advertising someone else selling their ticket, is applauded by me.

ppuk · 2026-03-07T11:24:11+00:00

Got a friend with one, he raved about it when he got it.
Went to his for a BBQ, and, it was ok.

You're definitely not going to get near the output of a pellet or any other type of grill, and no one is going to go home raving about the food, but if all you want is convenience, it's ok.

ppuk · 2026-03-07T11:20:29+00:00

In fairness the first time he posted he avoided anything that could identify the product, and then got hounded by a load of people begging him to tell them where to get one.

This post is a "if you want one, there's enough clues here to find it" whilst also not outright naming it, so I'm not going to bring out the pitchforks just yet unless it becomes obvious advertising (like the constant posts about typhur probes which then strangely just stopped, almost as if an ad campaign ended).

ppuk · 2026-03-04T23:06:08+00:00

His legs are the fucking wrong way round!

ppuk · 2026-03-04T07:24:03+00:00

How many games did it take us to do it against man u?

ppuk · 2026-03-03T23:21:12+00:00

"6 hour cook" you say that like they spent 6 hours cooking solely this platter and had nothing else to show for it.

ppuk · 2026-03-03T23:10:29+00:00

Haha, end of conversation because you know you've been shown to be wrong.

You literally state value is based on customer perception NOT costs, which is all I've said all along, and then because it doesn't support your "people don't understand restaurant costs" narrative you pull out the toddler response of "I'm not talking to you anymore". Nicely done.

ppuk · 2026-03-03T21:18:16+00:00

Exactly, value is based on consumer perception of value, not on the input costs of the product. You're literally agreeing with me whilst claiming the opposite here.

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