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If a manufacturer is making a product with cheaper labor those savings don't always go to the consumer so it's kind of a moot point unfortunately where as when they're done here in the U.S you'll always pay for the extra cost of labor. Bottom line is ceramic cooker makers can always charge a premium regardless of the country of origin.
I know (only) enough to be dangerous since I'm actually getting BBQ product commercially made now. It's amazing what actually goes into it! Next for me is to go visit one of my fabricator production facilities for more of a "hands on" to what is involved.
So this is interesting. My next video is going to be about how long the Summit will run on 1 full load of charcoal. It's a total bbq nerd question, but I'm sick and I thought I could do this and answer a hypothetical question ("How efficient is it?") while at the same time not having to breathe in a lot of smoke because the Guru would be doing all the work.
So here's the thing. I dumped in 3 chimneys full of K (thats exactly how much it took to fill the firebox, by the way) and 22 hours later I take a peak. I did it on camera because I THOUGHT I was going to be shuffling a few remaining coals around and kind of "wrapping up" the cook. Instead I found this.
Most of the coals are still there! I would not be surprised if this cook goes on for ANOTHER 24 hours or more. We are supposed to have storms tomorrow night so I REALLY hope this burns up by then. (So weird to have to think that far ahead.)
Meanwhile, I'm still trying not to get bronchitis...but I'm not going to give up on this now. I'm already 27 hours into this.
The more I see this cooker in action on this thread and others, the less reasons I see not to buy one.
I'll introduce it in June if not possibly a tad before but it is a new type of rotisserie system that will adapt to existing spits etc... Initially it will just be a base unit then will introduce other components at a later time that will make up the whole system.
