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Re: Rye Whiskey Recommendations Templeton Rye. What a lovely, lovely spirit. This is going way up in the whiskey rotation! The Dalmore Bordeaux Finnesse Scotch, Midleton Irish, Templeton Rye, and Don Julio 1942 Tequila are now my top 4 sipping spirits.

Re: Rye Whiskey Recommendations Lane Wallace wrote all those articles in "Flying" magazine about flying around the U.S. in her Cheetah. They were more emotional and less technical. That's what got me on to the Grumman family. When I flew the Tiger, I was hooked on the fast handling. And that sliding canopy !Learning to fly, and flying the Tiger in particular , was like being born again in to a new life. For all the non-pilots out there, if you have even a spark of curiosity about flying, go take a ride. If it is for you, it will hit you like a ton of bricks within moments of lift off. Just go out to any little airport anywhere in the country and tell the first person you see you are curious about flying and want a ride. It won't matter who that person is, if they are on a small airfield, they are part of the club and will see to it you get airborne! The world of private aviation is like a huge convivial family, and we all LOVE to get new people in the club. This is most evident when you have problem on an airfield away from home. A lot of these small airfields are often deserted. But usually there is an office that is unlocked and wide open. Or a phone bolted on to an outside wall with a number. Someone WILL come help you, even if it is 3 in the morning. It is like going back in time, to Mayberry or something. There is often an old rusty coffee can on the table where you put your 50 cents for the sodas in the crapped old fridge. Usually there is a courtesy car, a car you can just take to run in to town. In Llano, TX it's the old trashed out sherrif's car. You are expected to put a gallon of gas in it, and put the key back where you found it. And there are the modern, gleaming new facilities as well. But the people are just the same, familial. If you are the least bit curious, go check it out...

Re: Rye Whiskey Recommendations AG5-B Otherwise known as a Grumman Tiger. This particular iteration was the American General version, 1992.

Re: Rye Whiskey Recommendations I bought an airplane in Mapleton. Stopped in Onawa to eat a "Hot Brown" or maybe it was a "Hot Beef". I loved the hospitality and friendliness of all the folks we met there. My airplane was in a tiny airfield smack in the middle of a cornfield! I loved that place.

Re: pork butt and ribs I will just say that Dennis Linkletter is a man of his word and puts customer service as priorities one, two, and three in his business plan. You take no risk when buying a KK. You buy it for life and you get it for life. And my wife is 100% in support of that. Let's just leave it at that.

Re: Rye Whiskey Recommendations Tony, where is local?

Re: pork butt and ribs Same as the first, bronze metallic. 23"

Re: Pressure Cookers I did my first pressure cooking today between patients. Since 1:00 PM Central I have cooked a big pot of Mexican rice; total time with prep 17 minutes. And a pot of Creole chicken thighs cooking now, prep time about 8 minutes and cooking for about 20. After reading a number of Amazon reviews, I just randomly picked the Secura 6 in one. I would have just as readily have picked Nesco, or Instant Pot. This has a stainless pot which I slightly prefer in lieu of a non-stick. But Secura does offer a non-stick pot as an accessory. I think this will be a super cool cooking method to add to our arsenal of tools! Combined with the Vacmaster sealer we may be eating out a LOT less. Like a number of other electric pressure cookers, this one is also a rice cooker and a slow cooker. I used the rice cooker function for the Mexican rice. A very nifty little gadget.

Re: pork butt and ribs Yeah, secret second.

Re: pork butt and ribs I suggest NOT! We have discussed it before and several of us have done it, probably not a good idea. There is no need to do it anyway. Dennis will undoubtedly chime in on this one. Don't do it unless he gives you the OK.

Re: Moving a 19....suggestions please http://www.nakedwhiz.com/productreviews ... idrem8.jpg Take the lid off, remove everything from inside, if you do as in the photo above, PAD the 2x4's! One guy had a thread in here, with photos, of how he rigged a ramp and maybe some rope pulling apparatus, to get his KK up in a mini van. If somebody can find it, please post it for this guy. If you can get a truck with a lift gate, you have it made. Just carry the KK on to the lift gate with the 2x4's, load it up, and off you go.

Re: pork butt and ribs That is a brand new cooker and that bacon smoking session was its inaugural cook!

Re: Tri tip and tri tip sandwhich I like that photo of the lightning. Those are hard to capture.

Re: pork butt and ribs Making bacon is ridiculously simple. It takes a few minutes to mix up the cure, which is basically salt and sugar plus a few other options. Slather it on the pork belly and stick it in a ziplock bag. Put it in the fridge. Flip it daily for a week. Take it out, rinse it off, air dry it for a day in the fridge. Smoke it.

Re: Everyday Misc Cooking Photos w/ details Elgin is absolutely one of THE barbecue destinations in Texas, if not the entire country.

Re: pork butt and ribs n67428 n67429 n67430 evidence of home cured, home smoked bacon!

Re: pork butt and ribs The four chunks of maple cured pork belly just went on an apple wood fire moments ago. The hams are on their last day of cure and I will smoke them this week. 4H pigs, it's the way to go!

Re: Pulled Pork Chili Dragon's Breath Chili. Yeah, it's a winner.

Re: Everyday Misc Cooking Photos w/ details I drove from San Antonio to Houston and back this weekend. There are several big name Texas BBQ joints between here and there. It occurs to me we do brisket as good or better on our KK's, once we get our technique down. 56's photo supports that, no? BTW, for those who are willing to use your first name, please do. I do understand some folks would rather not.

Re: Is the Benzomatic JT850 the best? I like a MAPP torch to start a small amount of charcoal fast for a low and slow. A charcoal chimney will get a big fire raging for grilling in 6 to 8 minutes. I have not tried the weed burner, but it seems like it would be the most fun.

Re: Pressure Cookers It occurs to me that I have enough time, at odd intervals, between patients, to prep and cook at work, with a pressure cooker. It could drastically reduce the amount of take out we consume during the work week. I look forward to trying this. BTW, that guacamole that I vacuum packed is still bright green and tasty. We are going to Houston this weekend so I roasted and ground some nice Sumatra/ Ethiopia and vac packed it for use in the hotel. This will be WAY better than those nasty hotel pods. The vac packer is the bomb!

Re: Steam for Bread I work from the nose up... Not much probing.

We have talked some about sous vide. Is anyone here enthusiastic about using pressure cookers? I'm researching it a little to see if it is worth adding to our kitchen.

Re: Steam for Bread OK, Syz, I think Dennis is asking you what is the meaning of the term "oven spring". The little hole for your thermometer probe wires has been called the "Polder tube" because there is a popular brand of thermometer named Polder. I suggest we drop that term and call the little hole something else. Like "thermometer port". "Probe hole" conjures up odd notions...

Re: Best vacuum packer? (FoodSaver alternatives?) The VP 112 is a counter space hog for sure. I may put mine on a rolling kitchen cart and stash it in the dining room between uses. It's not as massively heavy as some chamber machines, you can carry it, or roll it. The thing is 24 " deep so it's bulky. I will try it for travel packing and see how it compresses down say, a sweater.