David Chang

@tekobo yes i cleared all the fat on the surface. the point will be braised for brisket daikon (kind of like chinese corned beef). the flat i'm making pastrami. smoked until bark set and steam oven finished. i do have an injector i've never used so maybe i might introduce tallow into the flat, but we'll see..

separated another brisket tonight and i think i'm getting better at it... but the meat yield after fat trim is terrible. this 6kg prime brisket which costs me $96 USD in HK with next day free delivery is not bad? ended with 3.4kg fat trimmings. i guess i'm making tallow this weekend...🙃

the pictures aren't loading for me but sounds good..

@Dennis in rare cases where charcoal has gone out on me, it's with used charcoal (already lit then snuffed) and the charcoal has been sitting around in the open absorbing moisture for a while. but i assume you are using new and fresh charcoal? what brand is it?

i used my rib rack for the first time today. i've had it sitting in my shed since i bought the 19. i don't think it was made for beef ribs, but i couldn't get the single bones to stand up without falling over. i also used wood chunks right on the coals. still works great this way and less hassle.. used only half a basket of charcoal and for almost 8 hours i only burned through half that. what a charcoal miser..

@jeffshoaf one of those situations where you need an asado cross handy. i always wanted to do one of these whole pigs but i live in an apartment. 😅

i don't understand pan pizza, but here is an attempt at it. it did not taste like pizza hut..

smoked dry rub ribs from the hybrid aged pork rack. i ate a few pieces and took a nap..😴

humm, i'm not sure what breed it is but it's called bangelow sweet pork from australia. this is the only chilled pork rack of this size i can find. everything else is frozen or from china. so i decided to crack her open today. broke her down to skin, rib-eye, and bone rack. it basically tastes like dry aged pork with the taste of beef tallow. it's very good .. .

old Dome or new Arc?

playing around with this pork rack. sort of a hybrid mix of dry and tallow ageing. it's back in the ager for maybe another 2 weeks and then slice and eat. wel'll see what it tastes like. i've never tallow aged pork.

dinner from last night. didn't bother putting on a plate just ate off the baking sheet..

made a pizza for lunch with spicy salsiccia. i'm not a fan of the donut pillow cornicione but i need to remember cold dough doesn't want to stretch as much...

i have never cured whole hams, but we are talking about cooked hams like jambon de paris or prosciutto cotto right?

haven't used my kk in months.. i can still hit my temps without apps 😅

nice job. reminds me i need to do my cart base, but it's stainless topped so its not that straight forward as all wood.

back in bangkok and just had a very good meal at Jeh O Chula. the wait was about an hour, but you can book.. their most popular dish is tom yum soup with MAMA noodles (Thai version of Indomie) with raw egg yolks and several legs of backfin lump crabmeat.. at first glance, it's looks like cheap food i used to make in college, but man is this thing tasty... the crispy pork was some of the best i've had in bangkok. it rivals hk's famed siu yuk.. the stir fried chinese kale was freaking amazing. i believe it was only seasoned with salt fish (a pungent fermented salt cured fish. it's an absolute umami flavour bomb) and the mud crab. simply steamed and loaded with roe and served with magic thai seafood sauce. and the face of the restaurant, the owner i suppose, is this grey haired lady chopping away at crispy pork belly... might ruin someones night if one of these cables got cut accidentally..

@remi nice. i'm probably going back next week to go to learn thai massage 😄

this is exactly what i ordered. i just need to wait for it to arrive..

cold smoked salmon. i still can't figure out how to get the wood chips to burn for more than 1.5 hours without my intervention. maybe i need a more powerful air pump... but the smoke is intense enough that i just left it over night and it was pretty good flavour.

@Tucker for the rust neutralizer, i bought a loctite alternative. had to order this, the primer and rustoleum paint shipped from the US because amazon can't ship haz mat stuff. the DIY hardware scene in HK is appalling. there are no home depots or lowes here and everything i get in a mom and pop shop is hot garbage from china.

@MsTwiggy looks fantastic. well done 👌

my pizza oven stand is rusting. not terribly, but the paint is peeling on one of the legs and i want to take care of this before it spreads. i'm asking here because i've never done this type of work before and i figure someone here might know. i don't think i can match the color and orange peel texture of the original, but it's on the back side of the cart where nobody will see it. now if i follow these youtube instructions to fix a rusty waste can, would it work on my pizza stand? i don't want to make a big job out of it and i personally can't see myself doing any more than this, but i just want to verify that these methods in the video will solve my problem. basically remove the rust and repaint to a weather resistant finish. this is an outdoor oven that i use a cover with, but water likes to get inside at times when it rains heavy. thanks!

trying on baked wings two of the many spices we bought from the grand bazaar in instabul this year. one was potato chips spice (true to taste) and kfc spice (close but not really)

if you are looking for a controller with more than 4 ports, Fireboard 2 Drive has 6 thermistor ports. Wifi and Bluetooth. if you get this, use the 2 probes supplied until they break, then buy thermoworks probes because they are better made. avoid the Fireboard fan, the cable wraps, the magnetic base. all junk. and get the bbqguru pit viper fan.