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That's on the list to do in a few years. But I'm hoping for a bit longer trip when we do it.

Thanks, but the link to see the list of recipes just sends me to a sign up page. BTW, all schnitzel types are super simple with the few key ingredients. One is good quality bread crumbs and if you don't feel like making them, I can't remember the name, but think it was Italian and in a green can. That was some of the best store bought I've ran across. The other thing is adding butter when you pan fry it, but that typically means you need to cleanup after every two pieces. Of course weiner is just veal cutlets where regular is pork cutlets. All of it pounded to death with a meat tenderizing hammer till thin. I flour it, then egg wash and lastly dip in a seasoned bread crumb right before dropping it in the butter/olive oil pan fry. Keep them warm on an oven rack if making sauce or multiple. My favorites are rham (which is a white creamy mushroom sauce and I add a little pinot gris to it), then jager (a browned flour gravy, of course I add mushrooms to all my sauces) and then a la holstein which is the wife's favorite, an egg (or three...LOL) sunny side up on top. All are great with a small squeeze of fresh lemon and served with gherkin, potato or green bean salads along with some red cabbage.....Mmmmm. LOL...I may be making another trip to the grocery store today.

Updated and old topic since the pics got lost...... LOL....man, I found this thing in the back of my shed the other weekend when I decided it was time to get back into cooking. Luckily I always unthreaded the bottle before storing. It fired right up and worked just as great as it did many years ago when I put it away. I can't find all my original pics, only these two. Rev 2 below has a much nicer hanging mount. No idea where I stashed all my pics from years ago......oh well.

Who? HAHAHA.......😛 Actually I've heard that bass riff ripped off in many other songs. So many artist (er..so called anyway) just can't create so they copy.

Years ago, we had a fantastic little German restaurant and the owner, Ole was a true chef. His haxe was the best ever and never was able to replicate the recipe after he moved on. Most of our other German places just serve standard dishes, but he had items I'd never had before. Always had a taste for things that were different. Guess that was one thing that drew me to start cooking by age 7. For a number of years, we also had a German butcher right down the street from my current home. Every Saturday, the owner's wife had fresh hot fleischkaese and the bratwurst hanging around the shop blooming after the smoke. Man, the smells of that little shop were heavenly. Got to know the older couple very well over the years and was very sad when they retired as their kids had zero interest in running the family business. Also the area of the small town I grew up in had a lot of German moms. It was fantastic when my friends invited me for dinner, so I've loved German food since I was a kid. Now that I'm trying to get back into cooking again, I'd love to find some different dishes that I've never had. Still want that perfect Schweinshaxe recipe too...LOL. Oh yeah, Ole also made us Kalbshaxe on special holidays. OMG, it was so good.

Sorry, no fancy or pretty pics here, as I suck at taking pics. But it still tasted great. And probably the first time in 5 years since I've used my pressure cooker. Still working fantastic.

Spent the last few weekends catching up on the happens in the forum during my years of absence and I got to say WOW. Your pictures are some of the most fantastic I've seen of plated food. Not only are they completely delicious looking, they're so professional too. Dennis needs to add some of your pics to his website. I just suck at pictures.....LOL.

Ok, looking at some of my old posts, I couldn't stand it anymore. It's a rainy, muggy weekend, so pressure cookin' it is. Had to make a quick grocery run, but it's worth it. My variety of hoppin' johns, way more sausage - polish kielbasa and served with baguette and maybe rice for leftovers. So freakn simple to toss in a bag of dried black eyes, couple cans of rotel, dice up an onion and let the pressure cooker rip. Just rinse, no pre soak on black eyes, and ten minutes later.....Mmmm.

Ok, since there's a whole new crowd in here now, I'm hoping there are some folks with a few German recipes??? I asked this many, many years ago and didn't get anywhere. Fingers crossed. Schweinshaxe was always that dish which was good, but never quite perfected. None of those Google recipes cut it either. Anyone?? I'd love to see more international recipes in this section.

LOL...While mine is the first post in the category, but this isn't a category I originally created. How I know, come on, "Homage to David Bowie"....Please. It would have been Homage to Freddie Mercury had I started this category....LOL. 😎 But this sure does bring back memories of pressure cooked black eyes and sausage.....Mmm. Maybe I'm just hungry right now, but going through all these old and new posts are killing me. I gotta go cook something.

HAHA...I did some off the wall brews myself. Once I did an IPA with grape juice and called it Grape Ape Ale. I enjoyed it. One thing that is very much missed is the enjoyment of having a brew party. We would put something on the smoker and just make a day of brewing. Especially since all grain took the better part of a day anyway.

No idea why it is, but always loved them too. Have a decent collection myself. Unfortunately the forge didn't get to see very much use as it wasn't long after making it that I lost the ability to do it. But the cool part is now there are end mill capable of milling pre-hardened steel. So this hobby might get a revisit in a few years, just minus any hand forging....LOL. That and flashlights. Again, no idea why, but they seem to literally go hand in hand with each other. I'll admit it, I have a problem and have way too many knives and flashlights.

I understand about space issues. My small CNC room is in the process of getting a major overhaul. Running more power to it right now and switching out all my equipment to sit on top of tool chests so they will be easier to move around as needed. Right now, two sit on a large table, but as soon as I get my new mill enclosure, it's going on a cart just like the Emco lathe above. The small manual mill will easily go on a cart. Once all of that is done, the table is gone and space will be available again. My first back surgery I think was in 2005. It was a cleanout and was younger so it wasn't bad, but only lasted a little under a decade. Second one was a fusion which failed and causes a third to happen within 1 1/2 years (now fused L4/L5/S1). Unfortunately fusions just ruin the discs above and that's already happening about 3 years later (L2/L3/L4). So trying to get everything setup for my retirement now while it's possible. I'm afraid the next surgery will put a damper on my ability to create these upgrades / add ons and new setups. Doing PT and everything else to push it out as far as possible, as there's way too many more projects I want to get finished first....LOL. Trying not to be stupid about them and carefully planning them, little by little.

Cyser is somewhat like a hard cider. It's a fruit based mead (each one has its own name, but I cannot remember all that...LOL). I made an apple version and a few others. Also made watermelon wine, muscadine wine and several other fruit wines. Wasn't much point of making grape wine since good wine was much easier to buy. Sort of another reason I quit homebrewing. Don't get me wrong, absolutely loved doing it and smell of fresh wort brewing with hops in the air was awesome. But I started in the late 80s and did it for many, many years. Back then, my state and it's closest neighbor to me didn't allow any beer above 6% which completely kept all the great microbrews out of these states. Once the laws changed and good beer flowed freely again since before prohibition, the need didn't exist anymore. Also there just wasn't space to setup anywhere except the existing location. The brewery had 3- 130k btu propane burners, so nothing indoors was an option, even if I did have the space. Kept it for many years thinking maybe one day we would move and I'd have a garage or larger shop where it could be rolled in an out, but we decided to stay in our existing home after all the surgeries. Since I rarely drink anymore and we weren't moving, last year I made the hard choice it to sell off most of my creations (which I built most from scratch or scrap, down to the sight glasses and grain mill) for someone else to enjoy. It was made to last generations, so I'd like to think it will get passed on to someone else and live on.

Completely forgot about the wine press I made (which was sold along with the homebrew setup). Naturally, like the brewery pics, these are very old. Added adjustable legs, casters and an outlet drain valve after these pics. But this was really a fun project since it involved both metal and woodworking. Made with white oak slats mounted to two sets of metal straps so they could be bent in and removed in two sections to allow cleaning. Also a SS plate in the bottom with over 200 holes for the press plate to mash fruits against. Used an old keg which made it easy to contain the setup. It did get many years of use making different fruit wines and juice for cyser meads.

Doubt I'll ever go 5 axis on my mill, since it's a rare case to actually need 5 degrees of motion around a central plane (X,Y,Z and basically pan/tilt) and it severely limits your work envelope. Though I do plan on adding a 4th axis and maybe a trunnion table to it, which will allow turning a part. I enjoy designing and building. It's just something I have to do or go crazy. After my second back surgery, started to go a little nuts without the ability to do things. I turned to small hobbies which allowed me to sit and build. For a while I had a side business building custom electronic vaping devices and accessories. It was mostly just 3D printed stuff and used a pro facility to print after doing the prototyping at home. Then got my first lathe and started turning accessories. Was also back at work (barely able) and that got old making stuff for other people and working 12 hr rotating shifts. So after 2 years of doing that, decided to stop and go full on into the CNC world as just a hobby. But it would take me a while and wasn't going to ruin it by trying to turn it into a business again. Finally after the 3rd surgery, which allowed me to finally walk normal again, was able to really get started with all my CNC equipment, piece at a time. Due to lifting restrictions, it had to be equipment which could be taken apart in small pieces, placed and rebuilt. Moved from working shift to a day desk job (with 3 day weekends) and now have just been building and adding on, little by little as my back allows. I'm extremely fortunate to have met up with a group of friends with similar interest. While I have zero interest in the business side, the other two guys are young engineers and wanted a side business. So mainly just been helping them develop products, doing CAD work / beta testing and both of them are now selling the add-ons we made. Really close now to having a 100% complete mill without any premade mill parts coming from a commercial seller. Except of course motion control hardware and software, but they aren't selling that portion since everyone has their own preference. This stuff is mainly for the DIY crowd and not the turn key folks. LOL...they have been trying to talk me into building the electronics boxes for the setup (since that is my background), but still not interested in selling anything. Anyway, it's been a fun ride so far. We still have a lot of work to do, but keeps me occupied with interesting things to build.

Nice looking machine.

LOL, I spend much more time building upgrades, tools or work holding devices and getting my CNC room ready for retirement. At some point, all of these things will be as desired and then I'll focus more on making stuff other than upgrades. Though next year I plan on building a laser engraver setup....LOL...and I'm wanting a new 3D printer. But the main thing is my machines are getting used and enjoyed. Even if it's more for functional items versus fun items. The vids on Youtube show several parts being made like motor plates and mounting brackets. Oh yeah, I have another lathe in the CNC room, just don't think I have any pics of it. Manual lathe, but it probably gets used more than the CNC one for turning quick small parts. The fantastic part of having all these tools at my disposal is the ability to need something, break something (very often) and just draw it up in CAD and either 3D print a part or send it over to CAM and mill or turn it via one of the CNC machines. Home manufacturing is becoming a huge hobby market and is fun along with being interesting by learning new things. I see this just continuing to grow.

It was actually a little more than just a transfer pump needed (as I had one). The brewery had to be moved in and out of my storage area and the fermenters needed to be moved up a set of stairs to get into the house. To be honest, I can't even think of the last time I had a beer. So hobbies change, evolve or get taken away...so is life.

Probably just easier to link to my Youtube channel. But I'll post a few extra pics too. Here is my current CNC mill setup. Myself and a group of friends decided to take an existing mill and slowly upgrade it to what we really wanted. R8 spindle with TTS adapter and power draw bar, heavy duty frame and soon linear rails along with an automatic tool changer. All the upgrades were designed and built from scratch. One of the guys builds the spindles and has a CNC grinder to make the spindle shafts. My YouTube Channel My Emco turret lathe. 1986 vintage that I completely overhauled and added all new control electronics. After pics - updated with an Acorn controller with PLC and temp controlled fan to keep things cool. Before pics. Used to be a large 3 phase motor here and the old electronics were in a separate cabinet. This little BLDC motor I added has 3 times the HP the 3 phase motor had and about 1/25 the weight...LOL.

Updating pics that were lost. Yup, another item sold off due to life after 3 back surgeries. But I have new toys that are small enough for me to work with now and provide lots of enjoyment. Will add a new post of my hobbies now.

Well, the old brewery has been sold off since I could no longer lift the heavy pots or fermenter tanks. But decided to edit this post since the old pics were lost, I'm guessing during a forum upgrade.

That's a seriously nice pizza oven you have going on there. Is there a build thread for it?

Wow Syz, nice to see you are still around and kickin' on this group (and putting up math problems....LOL). FYI, my handle used to be Drunk_J many years back when I admined this forum. Life changes took me away from cooking for many years, but getting back started again with my two beautiful KKs. Anyway, I don't worry with math, just plug in the BBQ guru, stick a probe in the meat and one in the pit, setup the temp and it shuts down when target is acquired.....LOL. The lazy man's way and how I like it. No math, no thinking and really little skill involved with these grills and a temp controller....😁 Hey, who took away all my cool custom emots? Grrr. -=J

Re: Pork Butt Feedback I have never believed in standard time per pound. There are too many other factors that can influence the time. I find that shoulders, which have way more bone mass in the cut than butts, take much longer to cook than an equivalent size butt. Also, as the cut get even larger, the thickness the heat has to penetrate gets larger, so don't see how a set standard can account for this. Starting temp of meat, fat content, moisture content, density and I am sure a host of other variables can play into the mix. So just believe your thermometer and pull at the desired temps. If you are impatient, wrap with foil and/or jack up temp. Didn't believe it till I tried it myself, but the foil can shave off hours of cook time. Anyway, half the fun of cooking is the experimenting and learning!