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Yeah, my first experience was getting a Coke in Germany and finding it had 2 small cubes in it - and this was at a McDonalds! I asked the lady at the counter if I could have more ice and she looked at me like I was from another planet!

Looks like something from an Aliens movie!

I think the graphs on this thing are so cool!

Oh, yeah!

Tekobo, you strike me as an old soul whose lived many fantastic lives.

Can't wait to hear how those turn out - Gunpowder, really??

@tekobo - meatloaf = a terrine by any other name, except the French would never sauce it with ketchup! It's usually made here with a mixture of proteins - commonly beef, pork and veal. You MUST try a Fattie (aka, The Baconator, Bacon Explosion) Here's the step-by-step instructions. It's kinda labor intensive, but it's AMAZING! bacon-explosion.pdf

Off to a great start!

I'm headed off to Baltimore in a couple of weeks and one of my planned stops there is to visit the Guinness brewery/taproom. The brewers make small batches of experimental stuff for the taproom. Should be great!

I had to go and check. No, it doesn't. Even looked inside the battery compartment.

I'm schizophrenic - I vac with the shop vac some days and I scoop from the top on others with a big feed scoop that I got at the farm supply store. It does double duty as my charcoal scoop, too.

Can't wait to hear how it works for you in an actual cook.

Glad to hear all's well.

@tekobo - these were inspired by the ones we had the last night in Greece. I think one of the keys is to grill them individually - you get more crispy bits and render more fat. So, next time, I'll smoke them whole and then cut them up before the finishing grill/sear.

Resurrected this old thread as I did another batch of the Denver ribs for a visiting guest, who likes lamb. Simple rub of Sucklebusters SPG (salt, pepper, garlic) and dried Greek oregano on one and fresh rosemary on the other. Cooked @ 275F indirect on peach and hickory wood (smoker pot) to an IT of 185F. I finished them off on the lower grate over direct heat @ 350F (dome) to add some bark and render some more fat. We were hungry, so no plated pics this time. But, they were very tasty.

Good pooch!!!

I tried my bottle of sauce to make a batch of burnt ends. They came out really good. Sorry, no pics as the brisket cook was totally off my planned schedule and I wasn't about to stand outside in 35F weather @ 6:30am to take pictures! I had put the whole brisket (prime grade) on the night before around 10pm @ 250F (Guru) and was expecting to get up in the morning to wrap the brisket in the pink butcher paper (IT = 170F), but when I got up to feed the dogs and let them out, I checked the temperature sensors and the brisket IT was already at 204F - YIKES!! So, I had to hurry and dress to get the brisket off and wrapped and into the cooler. I cut off the point and cut it into cubes for the burnt ends and used the Dragon Sauce - a good match. Burnt ends went back on the grill for another 90 minutes. Should have used a wider pan, as they ended up swimming in sauce and fat. Tasty, but not crunchy. The flat came out perfect - very tender and moist. I had injected it with Butcher's BBQ brisket injection and rubbed the outside with the coffee rub that Aussie sent me. A couple of lessons learned on this one - prime cuts cook faster than choice (this brisket was done in 8 hours @ 250F!); and, use a bigger aluminum pan for the burnt ends so they can spread out more and not be swimming - more surface exposure to the dry heat.

Yeah, I've been in his garage when it's running and it can take your breath away if you get a big whiff of it! You learn very quickly why they make pepper spray out of this stuff!

My neighbor across the street grows hot peppers and has a dehydrator for drying them. He runs it in the garage, as it's too strong aroma in the house, it will burn your eyes!

Leftover egg whites - can we say "Pavlovas?"

I guess that I'm just a slow learner, as I just joined 2 new Kickstarter campaigns yesterday! I've had mixed success with those that I've backed to date - a couple fizzled out/crashed & burned; a few delivered the final product, but I wasn't exactly thrilled with it once I had it; several delivered a product eventually that I actually think is a good product; and I'm still patiently waiting on several more that are typically waaaay behind schedule. Despite the exceeding long schedule for the MEATER, at least I can say that I'm happy with the final product, once they delivered. YMMV

You know me and my homemade hot sauces. I have 2 batches of chiles this year - yellow aji and something called "red dragon," which aren't that hot (so I plan to add a couple of Carolina Reepers to that batch to kick it up to where it needs to be.) I do fermented style sauces, ala Tabasco. It's just about the same amount of work as your recipes, just disjointed in time by several weeks. I've attached the instructions that I follow in making mine. This is a basic hot sauce, you can easily add garlic, carrots, herbs, etc. to the mash before fermentation. I also like to add Xanthan gum to mine with the vinegar to thicken up the consistency and to keep it from separating as it settles. I've experimented with several kinds of vinegar and have settled on Rice Vinegar, but experiment with other types - wine, apple cider, balsamic, etc. to see what you like best. This is last year's batches. Can't wait to hear what you all do and how it turns out. I'm probably a couple of weeks away from making my batches this year, as there are still a few peppers left on the plants that I hope to harvest before our 1st hard freeze (likely this coming week.) fermented hot sauce.pdf

Can't wait to see how the new units work out??