I am a fan of American ingenuity and this mini Chud Box absolutely IS. Just ordered one for June production and it’ll be a welcome addition on the ranch along with my other grills, my offset smoker and barrel smoker. Something about that TX style direct heat BBQ that justifies this purchase of a truly unique cooker. Well done Brad! 🤠
It’s absolutely as advertised y’all. It’s extremely well made, easy to assemble and easier to fire it up. It’s a joy to cook on and I can see it replacing 3 cookers as it really does it all other than “low and slow”. That said you can still smoke on it. Absolutely happy with my purchase of the Mini Chud Box!
@@_thisisdavid Do you have a running list in your head? Because I have a running list in my head. Like to replace the 14 year old car in three years. If I get a new truck, like Frontier or Taco w/ manual, I'd like a fishing kayak and trailer. There's one shotgun that I've had my eye on. And I think I'm done. When your nest is empty, you gotta fill that void with something, am I right? LOL
Glad to see you went with bolt on castors over the welded ones. Your customers will enjoy this feature as castors are the first thing that fails and need replacing.
Pretty sweet! One issue though. How do you use the rotisserie? Looks like the skewer has to be set before you can put your meat on and then remove it. Am I missing something?
Beautifully done, Bradley!! A work of BBQ Art. Please tell me what is the distance between the bottom of the firebox and the cooking grate?? 18" or so??
Love seeing the iterative process in action! was a great 1st design and this redesign is equally great. you can really see how bringing in the manufacturing company helped out and simplified the design with bends and plasma cut parts.
Love the new chud box. 2 things I would change is 1 a cutout for a removable ash tray on the bottom. And 2 U out the sides for the rotisserie so your not loading and unloading the shaft over the heat. (To eliminate any chance of dropping in hot coals) Make slide in covers when rotisserie is not being used. Just ideas.
What the temp range on the chud box ? Are you able to cook pizza on this at 600-700 deg?. Also if you ad a place for a heat deflector I bet this would become the ultimate smoker/ grill box
Dude, 1000% props for designing and manufacturing something super high quality that is also made in the states by a small business. Your the fucking man 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
its a work of art, I have been a tin bender for 40 years i want one whit rotisereie or how ever its spelled. next time i do ribs im goiing to use brine
If you drop in that grill add on and put a water pan in there instead of charcoal. Could you get a bit of bottom protection well cooking a brisket in there? Kinda like the wsm? If you dont have an offset smoker.
Sooooo...... upcoming pipe smoker build coming up?? That would be awesome!! I love your videos and you have tried so many new bbq things from them. I have a 10ft joint of 20 inch that I want to make a smoker out of. My only hold up has been figuring out what to do where the fire box meets the cook chamber. If I should just weld them together and call it a day, or make some sort of diffuser plate, and I don't know how tall my stack should be for the size of my cook chamber for it to have good draw. Hope a coming soon video can answer some of this for me. Thanks for all you do to help all us backyard dudes make the best food we can.
Keep it up my guy, you are a great youtuber and love your recipes, energy, and overall content. I hope to see you hit 1 million this year jest keep doing what you're doing and try to get some collaboration going. Wishing you the best from Dallas!
Love it!! I'm due for a new smoker grill and that's the perfect size for little old me! Unfortunately not within my S. S. Retirement budget. I'm sick of cheaply made grills for $250-$300 that only last 2 yrs. here in central Florida! I'll find something somewhere though! Nice job!
Congratulations, your product is much admired, and the thoughtfulness of design is obvious. My last 25 years I was a modelmaker for the "worlds largest supplier of tool storage" hence your 46" unit in the shop. You have made a very needed small cook machine, and did it very well. I can see some of the top quality functions to your unit that I would have insisted on. Good luck, I hope you become very tired keeping up. Remember it's only fun if you enjoy it. I literally whistled going to work. I wish you the same. Ed
I like it and really would love to have one. But for $2k it should come with a rotisserie and the upper charcoal basket for direct grilling. That’s really priced way to high!
@@ryanfriedrich7202 not in a million years, not with this quality of materials and construction. The price is high but it has to be to get this quality and still be profitable to the company.
Thats a great Pit! The only thing that would make it even better is adjustable height of the grill grate and or the fire basket. So that you will be able to do even really big things like a whole turkey inside it. And you will be able to use your coal more efficiently by just bringing it closer to the meat.
Excellent Brad - It looks like you've made a lot of improvements to a unit that will outlive most of the folks that purchase it. - A family heirloom - Cheers!
I wanted to buy one, I am gonna have to wait. I have a nice propane tank here that I could use to build an offset, just need to learn how to weld. Im gonna reference your build on the reverse flow when I design it.
You probably didn’t have much choice as to the price since you are farming these out….but for $2000 it’s a Kamado Joe all the way. Or I would order a similar design for 1/2 price from Allen’s in LA.
Looks like a great upgrade though I wonder how you store the grate when the rotisserie is running. Not on the handle unless you attach the rotisserie underneath the handle.
How are you getting a loaded up rotisserie in position though? Because right now it looks like you need to put on the chickens for example, inside the chudbox, above the coals.
Hi. Just found your videos. Love the chud box!!! What is the distance from the grate to the lid? Will a whole turkey or a larger pork butt fit on grate and still be able to close lid? Also, from the video it doesn’t look like grates can be used with rotisserie. Is that true? Thanks love your videos
How do you get the coals going and the get the bird on your rotisserie? You made two holes vs typical drop in like on a weber. Were you planning on putting the rod through the first eye dropper hole, sliding the bird on the rod and then going thru 2nd hole?
Not sure if I get hungry and watch your bbq videos, or if I fall down the rabbit hole and it makes me hungry. I only wish I had the spare dough to ship one of those 2,000 miles.
That's so cool. I was looking at it and I didn't see wheels which would make it a no go for me, but now I see it's got them. I'll have to take a look at the budget because I'd like one.
REALLY BUMMED! you omitted the taste test (15:21)!!! Chud Box looks great! Obvious you & your team put some thought into it. What version is it? 2.0, 3.0, 4.0?
Want one of these cookers. What kind of tongs are those and where to get them? I seen them a few days ago online but cant seem to find them now... EDIT, found them again lol
"Boiled linseed oil" is not just linseed oil that has been boiled - it contains things that are not food safe to make it polymerize faster -which is what it's being used for in this video. Linseed oil will polymerize hard in a few days to a few weeks with heat - where boiled linseed oil does what you see here, in just a few minutes or hours. I note that Brad did not use it inside the pit, and that's good. personally, I'd stick with food safe linseed oil on the outside and do a lot of cooking for the first few weeks to build up the coating on the outside like you'd do with a cast iron skillet. But if you do use boiled linseed, don't be tempted to use it on the inside.
I love the shiny black finish that the linseed oil produces, but yeah, after seeing the Mad Scientist video, my immediate reaction to this was, "eeeeeeeeeeeehhh!!!"
Yea I'd just use Crisco or regular veg and keep it tarped when not in use. You would probably have to refresh the seasoning based on how frequently and what temps you cook at.
Heads up...i think you want to have your lock washer between the bolt head and flat washer.
Yup..I was going to mention that
@@machinistbytrade I'm not trying to be that guy but they are arranged a certain way for a reason. Glad to hear I'm not the only one who caught it!
Definitely lock washer on the bolt head not flat washer.
Indeed
Split lockwashers like that are a waste of time anyway. They actually make it easier for bolts to loosen under vibration.
I am a fan of American ingenuity and this mini Chud Box absolutely IS. Just ordered one for June production and it’ll be a welcome addition on the ranch along with my other grills, my offset smoker and barrel smoker. Something about that TX style direct heat BBQ that justifies this purchase of a truly unique cooker. Well done Brad! 🤠
It’s absolutely as advertised y’all. It’s extremely well made, easy to assemble and easier to fire it up. It’s a joy to cook on and I can see it replacing 3 cookers as it really does it all other than “low and slow”. That said you can still smoke on it. Absolutely happy with my purchase of the Mini Chud Box!
I hope you are still making these after my daughter graduates from college, because I think I'd like to buy one as a graduation present... to myself.
I would like to thank myself, for putting up with you for all of these years. Now spread your wings and fly. Because I have things to buy for me
@@_thisisdavid Do you have a running list in your head? Because I have a running list in my head. Like to replace the 14 year old car in three years. If I get a new truck, like Frontier or Taco w/ manual, I'd like a fishing kayak and trailer. There's one shotgun that I've had my eye on. And I think I'm done. When your nest is empty, you gotta fill that void with something, am I right? LOL
this cracked me up!
Will you still be making these when I become a millionaire? Because that's the only way I'm going to be able to afford it! Lol 😂😂😂
DUDE! That thing is awesome! Great job!
Brad,
I was thinking as you were blacking this beauty out you were going to say " Don't forget the sides!"
Love the redesign. Very well thought!!
Come on people, A rookie mistake. Need I say more?
Love watching you work in shorts and slippers!!! Priceless!!😂
Best BBQ channel hands down.
Love watching the growth! Keep it up Bradley! CHUDSTIGE WORLDWIDE... wide.. wide
lol step bros is a staple in my life
Any possibility of having waterproof covers made and available for sale for the Chudbox?
Looks like a weekend project to build this guy.
I got my CHUD mini and just cant seem to stop cooking on it! This thing is perfect and customer support is fantastic.
Glad to see you went with bolt on castors over the welded ones. Your customers will enjoy this feature as castors are the first thing that fails and need replacing.
Thinking when my Webber kettle needs replacing that I’ll upgrade to a Chud Box. Looks awesome!
I was like where am I gonna put this. Well, I guess its time to say goodbye to my weber.
Pretty sweet! One issue though. How do you use the rotisserie? Looks like the skewer has to be set before you can put your meat on and then remove it. Am I missing something?
Beautifully done, Bradley!! A work of BBQ Art.
Please tell me what is the distance between the bottom of the firebox and the cooking grate??
18" or so??
Love seeing the iterative process in action! was a great 1st design and this redesign is equally great. you can really see how bringing in the manufacturing company helped out and simplified the design with bends and plasma cut parts.
The best part about this is that you get to design and use your own pit. That's dope to me.
Love the new chud box. 2 things I would change is 1 a cutout for a removable ash tray on the bottom. And 2 U out the sides for the rotisserie so your not loading and unloading the shaft over the heat. (To eliminate any chance of dropping in hot coals) Make slide in covers when rotisserie is not being used. Just ideas.
Grill basket and rotisserie are huge! Only reason I couldn’t justify it before was it needed to still serve the purpose of a grill for me.
I’m for sure buying one of these when I get back from my time in Asia
Love the attention to detail -- seems every piece of this puppy was thoughtfully designed for a great cooking experience. Keep it up! :D
The Chud box has come a long way! This iteration looks amazing. Simple, but great attention to detail and built to last.
What the temp range on the chud box ? Are you able to cook pizza on this at 600-700 deg?. Also if you ad a place for a heat deflector I bet this would become the ultimate smoker/ grill box
Dude, 1000% props for designing and manufacturing something super high quality that is also made in the states by a small business. Your the fucking man 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It’d be cool if you could raise the fire closer to the grate instead of an insert. Also, is there a plate or something for indirect cooks?
Greetings from the Island of Crete, may I ask on 11:20 all the other Grills see on the right side, what Grills are that? Thank you!!🎈🍻
its a work of art, I have been a tin bender for 40 years i want one whit rotisereie or how ever its spelled. next time i do ribs im goiing to use brine
If you drop in that grill add on and put a water pan in there instead of charcoal. Could you get a bit of bottom protection well cooking a brisket in there? Kinda like the wsm? If you dont have an offset smoker.
Sooooo...... upcoming pipe smoker build coming up?? That would be awesome!! I love your videos and you have tried so many new bbq things from them. I have a 10ft joint of 20 inch that I want to make a smoker out of. My only hold up has been figuring out what to do where the fire box meets the cook chamber. If I should just weld them together and call it a day, or make some sort of diffuser plate, and I don't know how tall my stack should be for the size of my cook chamber for it to have good draw. Hope a coming soon video can answer some of this for me. Thanks for all you do to help all us backyard dudes make the best food we can.
Looks good. When I went on website I didn't see anything about freight shipping.
Keep it up my guy, you are a great youtuber and love your recipes, energy, and overall content. I hope to see you hit 1 million this year jest keep doing what you're doing and try to get some collaboration going. Wishing you the best from Dallas!
What will be the difference between this and the new stainless box?
How about a back rail for the cooking grill so as to be able to does Turkish skewers????
I like it. Unfortunately, it's way out of my price range for now.
me too thats why imma build my own similar thing.. good to have a welder
Love it!! I'm due for a new smoker grill and that's the perfect size for little old me! Unfortunately not within my S. S. Retirement budget. I'm sick of cheaply made grills for $250-$300 that only last 2 yrs. here in central Florida! I'll find something somewhere though! Nice job!
You could build fire in bottom, install an empty upper grill grate and block the holes and have a vertical smoker.
Watching this on my back porch while finishing up some BBQ pork shoulders and enjoying an ice cold beverage. Solid product gonna need one!
Congratulations, your product is much admired, and the thoughtfulness of design is obvious.
My last 25 years I was a modelmaker for the "worlds largest supplier of tool storage" hence your 46" unit in the shop. You have made a very needed small cook machine, and did it very well. I can see some of the top quality functions to your unit that I would have insisted on.
Good luck, I hope you become very tired keeping up. Remember it's only fun if you enjoy it.
I literally whistled going to work.
I wish you the same.
Ed
Hear me out. Mini Chud box attached to a smoker. With a panel that slides in out or some way to divert the fire/smoke to the larger chamber.
Just sittin' around the New Chud Box, makin' s'moes. You've got a friend in me.
That looks good to me!!! Good job!
Love this new design. Keep the videos coming...
For the rotisserie, does it mean we have to add and remove the meat before removing the rod? over charcoal, seems complicated? did I miss something?
I want, I want, I WANT!!!!! Gotta get me one of these!
Like a mini NC pig cooker. Only with a pig cooker one puts coals in the corners, not a fire in the middle.
Just discovered your channel this thing looks amazing
I like it and really would love to have one. But for $2k it should come with a rotisserie and the upper charcoal basket for direct grilling. That’s really priced way to high!
Yeh more like 500 bucks
If you want a 20 gauge chinesium steel pit then buy one, if you want to pass it on for 5 generations get this. Simple as.
@@RadTac be honest, in 5 generations our people will be consuming a pill for their whole meal. people aint gonna BBQ
@@RadTac would love to see a 5th generation direct heat grill.
@@ryanfriedrich7202 not in a million years, not with this quality of materials and construction. The price is high but it has to be to get this quality and still be profitable to the company.
Thats a great Pit! The only thing that would make it even better is adjustable height of the grill grate and or the fire basket. So that you will be able to do even really big things like a whole turkey inside it. And you will be able to use your coal more efficiently by just bringing it closer to the meat.
Excellent Brad - It looks like you've made a lot of improvements to a unit that will outlive most of the folks that purchase it. - A family heirloom - Cheers!
With the new Chud box, there should be a Chud box series this summer instead of the Weber Kettle. Awesome job on the cooker by the way. 🤌
beautiful finish on that product
I wanted to buy one, I am gonna have to wait. I have a nice propane tank here that I could use to build an offset, just need to learn how to weld. Im gonna reference your build on the reverse flow when I design it.
Omg Brad!!! Those look amazing!!! Congrats. Love seeing this happen
congratulations.... looks like a great little cooker...
Very nice. I like your grave yard of grills. Was surprised to see a Kamado joe in there. Do you ever use it???
2k YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m curious as to why the airflow control decision involved propping the door open vs vents. It’s a great looking grill btw.
R2 Chud 2 is looking sweet!
Love you work, keep up the good work!
Would absolutely love one. Will have to save up for this one
Ha! New Mini Chudbox!!! Lookin real nice my friend.
Super happy for you, Brad! I can tell you're proud as well. As soon as funds are available I will definitely grab one!
How easy is it to clean out the bottom?
You probably didn’t have much choice as to the price since you are farming these out….but for $2000 it’s a Kamado Joe all the way. Or I would order a similar design for 1/2 price from Allen’s in LA.
Looks like a great upgrade though I wonder how you store the grate when the rotisserie is running. Not on the handle unless you attach the rotisserie underneath the handle.
Mine doesn’t have a spinning handle. Is this an upgrade option?
What that hot plate thing you use when simmering on top of your cutting and prep area and where can I get one?
Congrats Brad. I hope you sell a million of em'
How are you getting a loaded up rotisserie in position though? Because right now it looks like you need to put on the chickens for example, inside the chudbox, above the coals.
Beautiful rig! I’m a huge “Chud head” but I don’t think it can beat my Hasty Bake
Hi. Just found your videos. Love the chud box!!!
What is the distance from the grate to the lid? Will a whole turkey or a larger pork butt fit on grate and still be able to close lid? Also, from the video it doesn’t look like grates can be used with rotisserie. Is that true?
Thanks love your videos
How do you get the coals going and the get the bird on your rotisserie? You made two holes vs typical drop in like on a weber. Were you planning on putting the rod through the first eye dropper hole, sliding the bird on the rod and then going thru 2nd hole?
Well if it's priced anything like the Chud Press I'll need to take out a 3rd mortgage for this 🤣🤣
Would you ever consider letting one of your oldies go?
Billions must grill
Now yuo see...
Not sure if I get hungry and watch your bbq videos, or if I fall down the rabbit hole and it makes me hungry. I only wish I had the spare dough to ship one of those 2,000 miles.
Everybody with an original Chudbox punching air right now.
Looks absolutely awesome you could send your first one to the UK 🇬🇧 for me to demonstrate 😂
I can't wait to save up to get one of these later down the road. Hopefully you're still making them
Amazing work man! Love the design. The laser cut parts, CNC press broke pieces, TIG welds. Nice piece.
Am I the only one crossing my fingers, hoping for a Chud Prototype Graveyard raffle?
If you add the grill basket and put fire BELOW it, would it act as a deflector and then you can use the CHUD box as a smoker? Like a WSM?
I absolutely love this cooking vessel. I've made nearly everything on your channel. Are there build specs and plans for sale on the chud box mini 2.0?
That's so cool. I was looking at it and I didn't see wheels which would make it a no go for me,
but now I see it's got them. I'll have to take a look at the budget because I'd like one.
Needs us a Chuds Deep Fryer next, see what you can do about that Bradley!
REALLY BUMMED! you omitted the taste test (15:21)!!! Chud Box looks great! Obvious you & your team put some thought into it. What version is it? 2.0, 3.0, 4.0?
What’s the price on one of these?
Nice design, looks sturdy.
Congrats Brad! 👏 Very nice re-design! I love it!!!! Especially the grill basket and rotisserie add ons 😍
You're a gem dude
Its almost perfect, if it had a plancha/blacktop asseccory it would be perfect!
Want one of these cookers. What kind of tongs are those and where to get them? I seen them a few days ago online but cant seem to find them now... EDIT, found them again lol
I might get one soon, are you able to season the box beofre pick up?
Does the press fit in this thing?
"Boiled linseed oil" is not just linseed oil that has been boiled - it contains things that are not food safe to make it polymerize faster -which is what it's being used for in this video. Linseed oil will polymerize hard in a few days to a few weeks with heat - where boiled linseed oil does what you see here, in just a few minutes or hours. I note that Brad did not use it inside the pit, and that's good. personally, I'd stick with food safe linseed oil on the outside and do a lot of cooking for the first few weeks to build up the coating on the outside like you'd do with a cast iron skillet. But if you do use boiled linseed, don't be tempted to use it on the inside.
I love the shiny black finish that the linseed oil produces, but yeah, after seeing the Mad Scientist video, my immediate reaction to this was, "eeeeeeeeeeeehhh!!!"
Yea I'd just use Crisco or regular veg and keep it tarped when not in use. You would probably have to refresh the seasoning based on how frequently and what temps you cook at.
This bbq is badass !
It's weird without the shed in the yard. Well done on the chudbox
It's awesome. Shipping to Ireland?
Living the dream it's awesome seeing the progress love the build videos
Now that looks fan-tAstic! I was just thinking about the CHUD. Looking forward to seeing some more cooks on that bad Larry!
How will this do with a brisket?