Heads Up: IMUSA Tamale Pots Not Consistent

I built a Mini WSM for a friend today. I gave him a list of the parts I needed and he got them all and brought them to me on Monday. I got everything put together and set it up to do a seasoning burn on it tonight. The first thing I noticed about the difference between his tamale pot and mine was that the hole pattern in the steamer insert was different. No big deal there because we aren't using it. The second thing I noticed tonight was that the handles on the pot are positioned a little higher than on mine. When I put the smokey joe lid on it, the outer lip of the lid actually hits the handles on the pot. I'm getting a good seal though and the temperature control on the mini is working fine.

I think this particular pot is fine but if there was even a tad of variation in that where the handles were higher i'd not be able to make it work without modifying the Smokey Joe lid.

Smoothsmoke said:

I heard you want the ones made in China, not Colombia. Not sure if that's the case in your situation.

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Interesting... I'm not sure either. The label I peeled off went out in the trash already and I'm not gonna dig through it to try to find out where it was made. I did not know they had two variations of it but I think this one is gonna work out.