OT - What are you doing right now?

WeberWho

I ended up taking home a bucket of smaller white oak splits from my parents property. The smaller smoker I've been fixing up won't handle full size splits. I wasn't looking forward to having to cut down the full size splits to fit in the smaller smoker. I received a call from my dad Saturday morning asking if I could help him split some smaller scrap wood. Talk about killing two birds with one stone...

dbCooper

CPFC1905 said:

OK lads,  as I have proved regularly up to now, I prefer to delegate any thinking effort that I face to the wider community.   I'd like to call it 'hive' but call it what is; 'lazy'.

So here's today question,  transporting a Large BGE - what's the best tactical approach?

The parameters;
Much loved soul-mate resides in a hardwood table,
Moving 'talent' has been secured (two burly blokes with tail lift truck), 
No disassembly, but will empty of non-secured components. 

I will award grades on the basis of technical feasibility & artistic impression.
Thanks in advance. 

Understand not wanting to disassemble, should you reconsider that contact your dealer, ask them to save the packing materials from the next Large they sell/install.  Pack it up the way it left the factory.

fishlessman

clicked on page 11 on the louiville thread and ...poof.  was so close

JohnInCarolina

Lit said:

alaskanassasin said:

Really? @Lit there is no call to disrespect this epic thread.

He had all night to apologize it’s his fault.

FFS dude, give it a rest and GROW THE F UP

fishlessman

CPFC1905 said:

OK lads,  as I have proved regularly up to now, I prefer to delegate any thinking effort that I face to the wider community.   I'd like to call it 'hive' but call it what is; 'lazy'.

So here's today question,  transporting a Large BGE - what's the best tactical approach?

The parameters;
Much loved soul-mate resides in a hardwood table,
Moving 'talent' has been secured (two burly blokes with tail lift truck), 
No disassembly, but will empty of non-secured components. 

I will award grades on the basis of technical feasibility & artistic impression.
Thanks in advance. 

alaskanassasin

Disturbing news from Vegas. Stay safe @Battleborn

Acn

Cat found some empty space on my daughter’s Lego table.

DoubleEgger

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FarmingPhD

First take at pasta carbonara, little too hot when the eggs went in or too much cheese as it wasn’t as creamy as in the Youtube videos.

thetrim

lousubcap

@thetrim - I am only commenting to remind you Army guys and gals..."Without the money shot I will pass."  
Be well and stay safe-

SciAggie

FarmingPhD said:

First take at pasta carbonara, little too hot when the eggs went in or too much cheese as it wasn’t as creamy as in the Youtube videos.

Carbonara is fun. Use mostly egg yolks - you know when you fry an egg the whites coagulate first...
Keep the temps below 180 degrees F when you add the egg. Use enough pasta water to make a good emulsion. 

This is advice is worth exactly what you paid for it - $0.00 - but this helped me make good carbonara. 

lousubcap

The following takes on even more meaning in light of where we are in this country today.  
Earlier this evening I received a package from a most talented and likely youngest forum member.  I won't offer the name but talk about inspirational, absolutely. When you see this, there is hope.  Our challenge is to nurture, inspire and lead while we are entrusted to do so.  We can't screw this up anymore.

I am totally humbled by the above.  Thank you so much.  Wow! just Wow!

FarmingPhD

@SciAggie thanks for the advice and definitely at least worth $0.02 😉.  Yolks only makes sense, I did 2 eggs + 1 yolk based on multiple videos I watched and thought some of the initial pour coagulated on me.  My wife liked it well enough to add to the rotation.   What do you do with your egg whites?  Since I only had one this time I just dropped down the sink.

SciAggie

@FarmingPhD I’m awful - I just throw out the egg whites I’m not using. That said, I just make small portions for my wife and me so it’s generally just one egg white. 

The bacon (or prosciutto) provides the fat, the pasta water is the continuous phase of the emulsion, and the egg yolk is the emulsifier. You have to create your emulsion without scrambling the egg so you have to keep dish below 180 degrees when you add the egg. 

I have found that it takes a generous amount of pasta water to make a silky, creamy sauce. 

lkapigian

SciAggie said:

@FarmingPhD I’m awful - I just throw out the egg whites I’m not using. That said, I just make small portions for my wife and me so it’s generally just one egg white. 

The bacon (or prosciutto) provides the fat, the pasta water is the continuous phase of the emulsion, and the egg yolk is the emulsifier. You have to create your emulsion without scrambling the egg so you have to keep dish below 180 degrees when you add the egg. 

I have found that it takes a generous amount of pasta water to make a silky, creamy sauce. 

I see Guanciale in your Curing Future 

TEXASBGE2018

Finally Got back on the blackstone. Made some dogs and grilled onions, toasted brioche buns.

SciAggie

@lkapigian I almost don’t like you, lol. You plant these thoughts in my head.

JohnInCarolina

Mixing up a pain au bacon.  Won’t go into the oven until mid morning tomorrow but I’m looking forward to this one.

thetrim

@lousubcap you must be living well!!!

thetrim

lkapigian

SciAggie said:

@lkapigian I almost don’t like you, lol. You plant these thoughts in my head.

This is the last of some I did Nov 2018, the meaty parts are gone but still awesome...i literally just hung this outside in my smokehouse 

Ozzie_Isaac

CPFC1905 said:

OK lads,  as I have proved regularly up to now, I prefer to delegate any thinking effort that I face to the wider community.   I'd like to call it 'hive' but call it what is; 'lazy'.

So here's today question,  transporting a Large BGE - what's the best tactical approach?

The parameters;
Much loved soul-mate resides in a hardwood table,
Moving 'talent' has been secured (two burly blokes with tail lift truck), 
No disassembly, but will empty of non-secured components. 

I will award grades on the basis of technical feasibility & artistic impression.
Thanks in advance. 

A few methods I use, if movers have eaten their wheaties, just put cardboard between all the ceramic internal bits and lift and move.  You can use a 4-wheeler dolley to make it easy.  I also band the top down.  If movers are less viking then remove the ceramic internals and repeat.

If you do not want to save the table, cut the top off for better access.

CPFC1905

Thanks @Ozzie_Isaac & @dbCooper

I did fail to include the detail about the 80 mile journey between sites, in my initial brief to you all.   Typical client

I am favouring the take everything out/off and strap the Egg within the table approach. Even if we have to lift the Egg out of the table & carry both to the van,  I think it will travel better within the table  - its a very solid hardwood built for purpose table.

Might get a cook in at the weekend,  then it will be thoroughly cleaned out and internals stowed away.

And FYI @Eoin - it was SWMBO who insisted that we engaged 'professionals' to move it. She inferred that my soft handed, management type hands and spine would not be sufficient for the task.   So the cost has tripled, but it's now insured for the move and I can lob the chimenea and an awkwardly sized garden store bunker in the van too.    

GATraveller

Looking at an amazing resource for calculating. Even has a "BBQ Party" calculator. 

Omnicalculator.com

1120 free calculators for just about anything you can think of or need. Cool. 

JohnInCarolina

Boom

ColbyLang

Recovering on the couch from surgery. Watching Tiger King. Jesus

Legume

@CPFC1905 my XL is in a nest, not in a table, but when we had it moved, the crew used a hand truck that I had, put the blade under two wheels and strapped the whole thing together with that stretchy plastic wrap used to bind boxes, etc together.  Cardboard on the inside and lots and lots of wraps of that plastic.  It was immobile, one with the dolly.  Put it on the truck and took it off the truck that way, left the dolly attached the whole time.  Zero issues.

Eoin

Thanks for the thread @Ozzie_Isaac, a great place to post up random cooks / general s**t. It definitely helped keep the forum active, which is good for everyone. Hopefully @The_Buffalo will do the right thing and edit / cull as needed.

Also thanks to @Ozzie_Isaac for the beers - not necessary but much appreciated! What a nice chap.

Ozzie_Isaac

Eoin said:

Thanks for the thread @Ozzie_Isaac, a great place to post up random cooks / general s**t. It definitely helped keep the forum active, which is good for everyone. Hopefully @The_Buffalo will do the right thing and edit / cull as needed.

Also thanks to @Ozzie_Isaac for the beers - not necessary but much appreciated! What a nice chap.

Glad they showed up!  Hope there are some in there you will enjoy