How Where's Trish Cooking got the kamado coals going with a BLOWZER X6
On Where's Trish Cooking, a homemade vanilla gift episode ends on the patio: the family lights their new kamado, and Carson holds a BLOWZER X6 at the rim and blows air into the briquettes until the flame takes.
A $3.50 Christmas gift, started in August
Where's Trish Cooking is Trish's cooking channel, filmed in her own kitchen with the family drifting in and out of frame. Longtime viewers know the household from Keep Your Daydream, the channel where they share the rest of their life.
This episode opens with Christmas, four months early. She drops 25 plump grade A vanilla beans straight into a big bottle of vodka, stores it somewhere dark and plans to pour it into little four-ounce bottles as gifts for teachers, the office and friends. It needs six months to be usable and a year to be really good, she explains, so August is already late. A few days on, the jar is turning amber.
A new kamado in the backyard
Later on, Trish mentions that the family has just put a green egg outside, and that barbecue and pizza episodes might follow. The last minutes of the video go there. Dinner is roasted potatoes and garlic bread from the oven, and out on the patio the kamado has to be lit.
Three people, one fire
The camera cuts to the patio at 11:22. The lid of the kamado is up, a small pile of briquettes sits in the firebox with one flame licking up through it, and more briquettes are being dropped in by hand. At the left edge of the frame, someone is holding the BLOWZER X6. "Making it hotter," a voice says.
What follows is a backyard scrum. Hands reach in from three sides, the bag of charcoal crowds the table, and one of the crew sums it up: "You give three people a one person job and it's just chaos."
By 11:32 the X6 is held at the rim of the kamado and aimed down into the coals. A scatter of sparks lifts off the briquettes around the flame. By 12:02 the fire has caught, and two of the men are bent over a kamado with a proper flame going.
"A right to bear blows"
Back in the kitchen, Trish turns to the camera with an apology. "I apologize profusely," she says, for giving the X6 to Carson, who is out at the grill. She quotes his defence, "I have a right to bear blows", and adds that "he's out of control of the thing." She is laughing as she says it, and the clip that follows suggests nobody is too sorry: from the patio, someone calls out, "The blow's working."
It is a small moment in a video about vanilla, and that is what makes it ring true. Nobody stops to review anything. The X6 is simply the thing in Carson's hand while three people talk over each other around a new grill, and the evening goes on to roasted potatoes and garlic bread.
A word of care, because fire is involved: the sparks in that shot are a good reminder to keep any blower well back from embers and away from anything that can catch. What you see here is one family's evening, not a method we recommend.
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Questions readers ask
Can you use an air duster to light charcoal?
Carson held the X6 at the rim of the kamado and blew air into briquettes that were already lit, and the flame grew. Keep the nozzle well back from the coals and never point it at embers near anything that can catch.
Does the BLOWZER X6 need a cord or a compressor?
No. It runs on a built-in 4000 mAh battery and charges over USB-C with auto-shutoff, so it works anywhere, from the kitchen to the patio.
How strong is the BLOWZER X6?
It reaches 45 m/s of airflow at 130,000 RPM and has three modes, 40K, 80K and 130K, plus five interchangeable nozzles.
About the creator
Where's Trish Cooking @wherestrishcooking
Where's Trish Cooking is Trish's cooking channel from her own kitchen, with family dropping in. Trish also films the family's life on Keep Your Daydream.