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Sea2Ski

JohnInCarolina said:

These killed.  One of those cooks that makes you wonder why you waited so long to try it.

@JohnInCarolina  Details please.  Cube up a belly, apply rub and cook?

What temp and about how long? 

JohnInCarolina

Sea2Ski said:

JohnInCarolina said:

These killed.  One of those cooks that makes you wonder why you waited so long to try it.

@JohnInCarolina  Details please.  Cube up a belly, apply rub and cook?

What temp and about how long? 

I pretty much followed the recipe here:

http://howtobbqright.com/2017/04/17/pork-belly-burnt-ends/

So easy, and so so good!

lousubcap

@JohnInCarolina - great result.  And living in pork country I'm confident another pork belly burnt ends convert.
Nailed that finish.  Most eggcellent.  

JohnInCarolina

lousubcap said:

@JohnInCarolina - great result.  And living in pork country I'm confident another pork belly burnt ends convert.
Nailed that finish.  Most eggcellent.  

I've done pork belly a few other times, with different recipes.  Always came out pretty good, but not what I would call great.  Maybe I just got lucky with these but they were legit amazing.

Legume

Late dinner - wings on, glad I sv'd them earlier.  Sitting outside, frogs singing and enjoying the last week last week of the Dead channel on SiriusXM free trial.  Damn, may have to pop for a subscription.

theyolksonyou

@legume just make sure if you have it in your car, there aren't a lot of t mobile towers.  Apparently they cause outages.  Seems to be getting worse and worse around here. 

Legume

theyolksonyou said:

@legume just make sure if you have it in your car, there aren't a lot of t mobile towers.  Apparently they cause outages.  Seems to be getting worse and worse around here.

 

Good tip. Wife's car, but the 3 month trial comes with access via the app so I get to use it wherever I am.  I haven't had any issues but don't know if there are any T-Mobile towers around, they're pink, right?

JRWhitee

@JohnInCarolina looks great John, thanks for the recipe these are in my BBQ future.

kl8ton

I received a record player and some records for my birthday.  Listening to Johnny Cash.  Drinking founders KBS.

I'll be keeping my eye out for some Al Jolsen.

Life is good! 

WeberWho

A coworker held a party for my wife and I last weekend. I thought a little dinner for her and her family was needed. So we cooked up a couple racks of ribs and taters for them. 

My dad stopped over today to help hang window casings. We tossed on some wings and had an extra rack of ribs. 

Picture from earlier in the cook:

blasting

Happy b-day  @kl8ton 

Legume

Mixed results with the SV wings.  Great flavor, not as intense as I had hoped, but they were only in the bath for 4 hours.  Grilling them was a challenge - really gummy and tough to get crispy without burning.  I dried them off after the bath and added a little rub and corn starch, but they were kind of a mess on the grill.  Wife ate a cool dozen, that's never happened before, she's usually only good for a half dozen.  The meat texture was great, need to sort out the skin.

kl8ton

blasting said:

Happy b-day  @kl8ton 

Thanks!  It's not until the 18th. We combined a few birthdays for today's party.  Perfect weather! 

Eggcelsior

@WeberWho any pics of the casings? I'm getting ready to do the master bedroom and living room windows and and trying to settle on a design.

WeberWho

Eggcelsior said:

@WeberWho any pics of the casings? I'm getting ready to do the master bedroom and living room windows and and trying to settle on a design.

Nothing fancy here @Eggcelsior

Focker

Watching the Bob Ross of BBQ overcook the sh!t out of a leg of Kenyan lamb via kettle rotisserie on Primal Grill.

"Medium rare lamb is 145.  (Sticks probe, bends down to see temp).  We are in the comfort zone." He blew through that zone, 25 degrees ago.....looked like brisket point. Lmfao

northGAcock

kl8ton said:

I received a record player and some records for my birthday.  Listening to Johnny Cash.  Drinking founders KBS.

I'll be keeping my eye out for some Al Jolsen.

Life is good! 

Happy Belated birthday. 

JohnInCarolina

Working on an NSF proposal to be submitted in a couple of weeks.  We'll be requesting around $600k to investigate hydrocapillary fracture in granular media.  It's a joint project with folks at MIT.  

northGAcock

JohnInCarolina said:

Working on an NSF proposal to be submitted in a couple of weeks.  We'll be requesting around $600k to investigate hydrocapillary fracture in granular media.  It's a joint project with folks at MIT.  

Who reads and evaluates that sort of thing? oh smart one.

theyolksonyou

JohnInCarolina said:

Working on an NSF proposal to be submitted in a couple of weeks.  We'll be requesting around $600k to investigate hydrocapillary fracture in granular media.  It's a joint project with folks at MIT.  

If you need any help, give me a shout. 

JohnInCarolina

northGAcock said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Working on an NSF proposal to be submitted in a couple of weeks.  We'll be requesting around $600k to investigate hydrocapillary fracture in granular media.  It's a joint project with folks at MIT.  

Who reads and evaluates that sort of thing? oh smart one.

Typically other faculty in the hard sciences and engineering.  NSF puts together a panel of folks, and they'll review a slate of 10-15 proposals where ours will be one of them.  

northGAcock

JohnInCarolina said:

northGAcock said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Working on an NSF proposal to be submitted in a couple of weeks.  We'll be requesting around $600k to investigate hydrocapillary fracture in granular media.  It's a joint project with folks at MIT.  

Who reads and evaluates that sort of thing? oh smart one.

Typically other faculty in the hard sciences and engineering.  NSF puts together a panel of folks, and they'll review a slate of 10-15 proposals where ours will be one of them.  

All the best on this.

lousubcap

@JohnInCarolina - Were you invited to submit?  As you well know, that's the inside track in the grant business.  But what an admin ordeal to complete the package, unless it has been cleaned up in the past couple of years.  Best of luck.  

DoubleEgger

JohnInCarolina said:

Working on an NSF proposal to be submitted in a couple of weeks.  We'll be requesting around $600k to investigate hydrocapillary fracture in granular media.  It's a joint project with folks at MIT.  

I hear there's a woman over in the medical lab that is really good at getting grant money. Maybe she can help. 

DoubleEgger

Watching these news anchors squirm trying to cover the Harvey Weinstein fiasco. Can't beat down one of their own. Totally different narrative than when Trump was caught trash talking on tape. Trump never pulled out his junk. The hypocrisy is mind blowing. 

Even the blowhards at SNL were silent. 

JohnInCarolina

lousubcap said:

@JohnInCarolina - Were you invited to submit?  As you well know, that's the inside track in the grant business.  But what an admin ordeal to complete the package, unless it has been cleaned up in the past couple of years.  Best of luck.  

That is true for many agencies, but much less so with NSF.  NSF is actually the most "democratic" of all funding agencies in that way.  If you have a good idea for a project and a strong proposal, eventually you'll probably get it funded.  A lot comes down to having some luck with the panel.  

JohnInCarolina

DoubleEgger said:

Watching these news anchors squirm trying to cover the Harvey Weinstein fiasco. Can't beat down one of their own. Totally different narrative than when Trump was caught trash talking on tape. Trump never pulled out his junk. The hypocrisy is mind blowing. 

Even the blowhards at SNL were silent. 

I'd happily respond to this, but I think we've all tried to keep the politics off this board.  Just saying...

HeavyG

JohnInCarolina said:

Working on an NSF proposal to be submitted in a couple of weeks.  We'll be requesting around $600k to investigate hydrocapillary fracture in granular media.  It's a joint project with folks at MIT.  

I just bought my six year old granddaughter a new box of crayons (the BIG box!) if you need any graphics to submit with your proposal.

YukonRon

All we have to do in the private sector is provide ROI projections, backed with a thesis, defend the position, amongst my peers (which can be a real prick identification mechanism) and apply for patent (if necessary), develop, hit the numbers, modify for opportunities in other markets, and repeat.

Good luck John, hoping the results become beneficial for you and your team.

blasting

JohnInCarolina said:

Working on an NSF proposal to be submitted in a couple of weeks.  We'll be requesting around $600k to investigate hydrocapillary fracture in granular media.  It's a joint project with folks at MIT.  

John, please keep this between us.  I just watched a documentary.   When wearing MITS, the granular media will always result in a hydrocapillary fracture.  The only exception is when the granular media is exposed first to an flux capacitor.  In this case, if it reaches 88mph in a defined area it can result in time travel.