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Just some bureaucrat flexing their "muscles" to prove to themselves that they have a meaningful job and doing something important! Sad indeed!

Come to Iowa, and go visit the Amana Colonies. It's an old German immigrant community from back in the late 1800s. It was a commune and they had big kitchen halls where everyone came to share what they had, cook and eat together. Now they are very nice rustic restaurants - all served "family style" - large platters and bowls of the main proteins and side dishes. Pretty authentic stuff. The local brewery makes a nice brew to go with the tasty food, too. My favorite is the rouladen. But the wiener schnitzel is very good too!

Because it's all high praise! You are truly worthy of all the accolades!

Rock steady!

I've never seen one of those before? I assume that the 2nd hose is just an air hose, using vacuum drag to pull in air beside the gas hose?

We all marvel at MacKenzie's pictures - they are magazine worthy! And we know that the foods is as tasty as it is great looking!

Money!

Schweinshaxe was everywhere when I first visited Austria and Germany back in the early 90s. Beer, haxen, kraut, potato salad - heaven!

Don't forget Vanilla Ice ripping off the bass riff from both of them!

Love the meat hook idea! That's a new one on me here in KK land! Hat's off to tekobo! Not sure that the "double smoke" idea is necessary? But, this is an experiment, so we'll see how it turns out?

Gorgeous lamb cook! Yellow beans for breakfast - must be an English/Canadian thing??

I've heard them called prairie oysters before, but sweetbreads are the thymus gland of the cow. Andrew Zimmern once proclaimed to have eaten the testicles of just about every mammal known to man - and I believe him!!

Indeed!

Glad you found your dog and he was OK. I've never tried to do a "caveman" style cook (directly on the coals). Closest that I've tried was Alton Brown's version of putting the steak under a roaring chimney of charcoal. Was fun, but I only tried it the one time.

In the US, when we say "lamb fries," we mean the testicles. LOL!

@Pequod - where the F did you find a chicken that big??? @MacKenzie - nice looking beefies. I bet you're addicted now - LOL!

Looks like you've got game!

WOW. That's a keeper!

Your friend did a very nice job with the adaptor. Good way to get the damper into the design with minimal hassles. That's a pretty big "dead band" around the setpoint, but given the size of this fan, it might be reasonable for it. I would have expected better from ThermoWorks, given how good the rest of their gear is designed/built.

Nicely done. Don't bother with the deflector stone. If one side is hotter than the other, just adjust your cooking time or move pizzas back and forth between the 2 stones.

YUMMY!

@tekobo intrigued by those blue handles on your skewers. Where did you get them and do they work well? I have converted to the flat ones with handles for ease of flipping. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D184MRD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I really enjoy hanging out with the folks in our club. Craziest beer that I've run across was made by a guy in our club - Mountain Dew Ale. All the liquid used in making this beer was Mountain Dew! He poured it at one of our Festivals. Before we knew it, the line was 20 people deep! Crazy what folks go for sometimes!