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TEXASBGE2018

As a celebratory 1st week of new job cook I made a reverse seared wagyu ribeye and strip for dinner. Used post oak wood chips to give them a kiss of smoke.

Salted 3 hours before and let them rest in fridge. Cooked at 225 until temp read 120, let them rest for 10min till the egg was 600 and seared 1min on each side. Good eats. Paired with not shown loaded baked potato and grilled roasted garlic bread.

Elijah

TEXASBGE2018 said:

As a celebratory 1st week of new job cook I made a reverse seared wagyu ribeye and strip for dinner. Used post oak wood chips to give them a kiss of smoke.

Salted 3 hours before and let them rest in fridge. Cooked at 225 until temp read 120, let them rest for 10min till the egg was 600 and seared 1min on each side. Good eats. Paired with not shown loaded baked potato and grilled roasted garlic bread.

May want to watch out using smoke...... Something tells me you have enemies.

Looks good though 

alaskanassasin

I have run several deer through the ole kitchen aid. I know where to send it if it breaks! Along with some millers!

thetrim

Nice money shot @TEXASBGE2018.  Definitely better looking that some bass boat on the side of a neighbors home.

SGH

Do they allow wagyu in HOA’s?

JRWhitee

SGH said:

Do they allow wagyu in HOA’s?

Only if you wear a mask

SGH

JRWhitee said:

SGH said:

Do they allow wagyu in HOA’s?

Only if you wear a mask

As is proper 👍

The Cen-Tex Smoker

ColtsFan said:

nolaegghead said:

ColtsFan said:

SWMBOs Uncle’s kitchenaid is back in action. I had to ask what and the hell he was doing to shred these cast gears. It’s typically the nylon failsafe gear that goes. His answer “Grinding 20 lbs of sausage”! Dude...you need a meat grinder or at least a bigger kitchenaid 🤣

Victory beer

Right.  Excessive load. These kitchenaids are not commercial tools, even if they say "Professional" on them.  Doesn't take much to smell the insulation on the motor either.   Once you start wearing down the gears, the grit only accelerates the wear.

I'm not saying I don't like them, I love mine.  But yeah, not designed for continuous duty under heavy load.

This one is a classic plus 275 watt. I wouldn’t do 20 lbs of sausage with my Professional 600. 

I have crushed 20lbs and more several times with my pro 600 w/grinder attachment (the metal one). We have upgraded to a LEM #12 now but the pro 600 did a great job pushing through some pretty big jobs. 

The Cen-Tex Smoker

May be the strangest dessert I have ever been served. Foster daughter’s 22nd birthday tonight so we went out for dumplings and noodles at our favorite spot. They knew it was her bday (she had a drink and they carded her) so they brought this after our meal. Chocolate mousse bulldog puppy with raspberry filling. It felt weird chopping his little head off but he was delicious. 

nolaegghead

You are definitely keeping it weird...

kl8ton

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

May be the strangest dessert I have ever been served. Foster daughter’s 22nd birthday tonight so we went out for dumplings and noodles at our favorite spot. They knew it was her bday (she had a drink and they carded her) so they brought this after our meal. Chocolate mousse bulldog puppy with raspberry filling. It felt weird chopping his little head off but he was delicious. 

Unsure how to feel about this. Do you still foster? 

kl8ton

Some more boneless whole chickens.  Getting better.  Next I have to plan for a filling and truss these things.

SciAggie

Have you ever thrown something together that ended up being like, - Dang! that was delicious?

I had a white squash from the garden that needed to be cooked. Had a random carrot laying around...
I thought about a squash gratin, but didn’t have cream and I was too lazy to make a white sauce...
I was par boiling some taters so I rough chopped the carrot and threw it in the pot with the taters. 

After 10 minutes I fished the carrot out. I rough chopped the squash and added the carrot. Seasoned with EVOO and a seasoning blend of bourbon smoked paprika, salt, pepper, garlic, and other goodness. 

This went in some CI and thrown in a 425 degree oven for about 30 minutes. 

When it was tender I looked at it and thought it needed something. I was rooting around in the fridge and found a little chunk of Stilton blue cheese that needed to be used. I crumbled some of the blue cheese on the squash and carrots then put it back in the oven for a minute to melt the cheese. 

Chit y’all - this is good! My wife looked at me and was like, “Write this down. This is good.” So y’all might give it a try. Not bad for an attempt to use ingredients before they turn bad. 

Botch

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

May be the strangest dessert I have ever been served. Foster daughter’s 22nd birthday tonight so we went out for dumplings and noodles at our favorite spot. They knew it was her bday (she had a drink and they carded her) so they brought this after our meal. Chocolate mousse bulldog puppy with raspberry filling. It felt weird chopping his little head off but he was delicious. 

Please, the name of the "restaurant"; that ain't Right.  

kl8ton

SciAggie said:

Have you ever thrown something together that ended up being like, - Dang! that was delicious?

I had a white squash from the garden that needed to be cooked. Had a random carrot laying around...
I thought about a squash gratin, but didn’t have cream and I was too lazy to make a white sauce...
I was par boiling some taters so I rough chopped the carrot and threw it in the pot with the taters. 

After 10 minutes I fished the carrot out. I rough chopped the squash and added the carrot. Seasoned with EVOO and a seasoning blend of bourbon smoked paprika, salt, pepper, garlic, and other goodness. 

This went in some CI and thrown in a 425 degree oven for about 30 minutes. 

When it was tender I looked at it and thought it needed something. I was rooting around in the fridge and found a little chunk of Stilton blue cheese that needed to be used. I crumbled some of the blue cheese on the squash and carrots then put it back in the oven for a minute to melt the cheese. 

Chit y’all - this is good! My wife looked at me and was like, “Write this down. This is good.” So y’all might give it a try. Not bad for an attempt to use ingredients before they turn bad. 

Your throwing something together is magazine quality! 

Battleborn

Not bad for a first attempt.

JRWhitee

Watching the Giants give Brady some problems.

The Cen-Tex Smoker

kl8ton said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

May be the strangest dessert I have ever been served. Foster daughter’s 22nd birthday tonight so we went out for dumplings and noodles at our favorite spot. They knew it was her bday (she had a drink and they carded her) so they brought this after our meal. Chocolate mousse bulldog puppy with raspberry filling. It felt weird chopping his little head off but he was delicious. 

Unsure how to feel about this. Do you still foster? 

That is a reasonable response. 

We have not fostered any others.  This one was in our orbit and needed some emergency intervention like 6 years ago. No way we could have not helped knowing what was going on.  We didn’t know it was going to be a foster situation but that was the best thing to do given the circumstances. 

JohnInCarolina

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

kl8ton said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

May be the strangest dessert I have ever been served. Foster daughter’s 22nd birthday tonight so we went out for dumplings and noodles at our favorite spot. They knew it was her bday (she had a drink and they carded her) so they brought this after our meal. Chocolate mousse bulldog puppy with raspberry filling. It felt weird chopping his little head off but he was delicious. 

Unsure how to feel about this. Do you still foster? 

That is a reasonable response. 

We have not fostered any others.  This one was in our orbit and needed some emergency intervention like 6 years ago. No way we could have not helped knowing what was going on.  We didn’t know it was going to be a foster situation but that was the best thing to do given the circumstances. 

You’re a good man, Cen-Tex.

Legume

Well, except for the eating puppies thing.

nolaegghead

Was on the phone with @dmw as I finished cooking getting some PA updates.

JohnInCarolina

@nolaegghead - that’s a heckofa cake there.  It’s no puppy but I bet it’ll do in a pinch.  

SciAggie

@nolaegghead You’ve put out some killer food lately. 

nolaegghead

Thanks, Gary.  John, I bought the cake.  Chocolate mousse.   

nolaegghead

@SciAggie this is our go-to squash recipe.  It's insanely easy and always a hit, even with people that dislike squash.

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/snowcapped-butternut-squash/

SciAggie

@nolaegghead Thanks. That sounds good. Mary and I eat a lot of butternut squash in the winter. 

SGH

JRWhitee said:

Watching the Giants give Brady some problems.

It came down to the wire. 

GrateEggspectations

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

kl8ton said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

May be the strangest dessert I have ever been served. Foster daughter’s 22nd birthday tonight so we went out for dumplings and noodles at our favorite spot. They knew it was her bday (she had a drink and they carded her) so they brought this after our meal. Chocolate mousse bulldog puppy with raspberry filling. It felt weird chopping his little head off but he was delicious. 

Unsure how to feel about this. Do you still foster? 

That is a reasonable response. 

We have not fostered any others.  This one was in our orbit and needed some emergency intervention like 6 years ago. No way we could have not helped knowing what was going on.  We didn’t know it was going to be a foster situation but that was the best thing to do given the circumstances. 

I’ve always thought adoption and fostering are some of the greatest things you can do for society. And on the individual level, you are literally changing someone’s world for the better. 

I think I’ll stop at two biological children, but if I was to consider another, I’d have to give serious thought to adopting. 

GATraveller

Getting in line to vote. 

thetrim

Not much goin’ on today.  What about y’all?