Spin doctors are overpriced junk, honestly.

Wait, so you're telling me that if I just buy a random stranger a coffee and sit in total darkness with them for two hours, I'm not part of some elaborate social experiment? Because I literally tried that last week and all I got was a weird look and the barista asking if I needed help finding the exit. Maybe your version of a "chill unplanned social thing" is just having way better luck with strangers than the rest of us. But hey, if you ever see a guy in a beanie sitting alone in a dark corner with two coffees and a fifty dollar bill, that's probably me trying to replicate whatever magical week you're describing.

Respectfully, a grease fire in an offset at 3am sounds like a design issue more than a cleaning one to me. My old brinkmann would pool grease behind the tuning plates no matter how much I scraped it. I swapped to a vertical offset with a water pan underneath and haven't had that problem since. Maybe look into how your baffle catches that airflow before you blame the cleaning schedule.

Not to be that person but $200 a month is actually around $46 a week, not $6 a day. Slightly bigger number when you break it down like that. But yeah I get what you mean about the chicken and rice thing, nobody wants to eat sad meal prep every day.

Wide aperture helps, but a star tracker makes way more difference lol.