OT - What are you doing right now?

Lit

Want to go get breakfast but pretty sure I'm gonna have to settle for lunch

Ozzie_Isaac

@lit that is why Cracker Barrel is genius.  Breakfast 24/7.

Acn

Ignoring these two beggers while cutting up a smoked turkey breast.

theyolksonyou

Achievement unlocked. That's the last of the old. Now base boards, paint, cabinets....,

Had a little help behind the fridge. 

Roadpuke0

SGH said:

Roadpuke0 said

I'm confused, there appears to be lump missing? 

You are correct my friend. For "grilling" I do not waste lump. I prefer charcoal briquettes for its much more even temps and controllability. There is a great debate going on right now on another thread about why you can not use briquettes in a egg, yet I have been doing it successfully since the day I purchased my egg. In my mini, I use only Kingsford blue bag briquettes. I never use lump in the mini now. 

I will have to give it a try in my mini. Maybe it will come to temp a little faster. Thanks for the insight. How do you normal start the briquettes in the mini? 

tarheelmatt

Making great progress Jason!  Dogs always want to "help" when possible!  

DoubleEgger

The Prince of Darkness

SGH

Roadpuke0 said:

I will have to give it a try in my mini. Maybe it will come to temp a little faster. Thanks for the insight. How do you normal start the briquettes in the mini? 

I will say this my friend, lump responds much faster to vent adjustments than briquettes. This is especially true when throttling the temp up. However for grilling, I start my briquettes in a Weber chimney starter. They are glowing red and ready to go when I dump them in the mini.

bgebrent

Finishing the weekend with a bit of Basil Hayden. 

nolaegghead

I made and installed a couple benches and a small desk for my neighbor friends kitchen renovation.   They are our Brisket Camp lawyers so this will go a long way to protect us from mayhem.  

nolaegghead

DoubleEgger

Just got home from seeing The Crüe and Alice Cooper. Phenomenal show! 

Legume

Outstanding work @nolaegghead, beautiful.

swordsmn

That's some nice looking work there @nolaegghead !

Roadpuke0

SGH said:

Roadpuke0 said:

I will have to give it a try in my mini. Maybe it will come to temp a little faster. Thanks for the insight. How do you normal start the briquettes in the mini? 

I will say this my friend, lump responds much faster to vent adjustments than briquettes. This is especially true when throttling the temp up. However for grilling, I start my briquettes in a Weber chimney starter. They are glowing red and ready to go when I dump them in the mini.

Gave it a try tonight. Work just fine if you ask me. The flavor was fine and sear was great. I now see why you do not waste the lump. I would think most people would not know the difference. The lamb chops were great. Thank you for the top brother! 

theyolksonyou

Wishing I was with @Roadpuke0 instead of watchIng the Braves continue to suck after a night of flooring duty. 

Randall_Lee

nolaegghead said:

Nice work and damn nice wood, building a bar for my outdoor cook shed out of a piece of 2 1/4" X 20" heart cut cypress but it doesn't have the live edge. Great work. 

SGH

Roadpuke0 said:

Gave it a try tonight. Work just fine if you ask me. The flavor was fine and sear was great. I now see why you do not waste the lump. I would think most people would not know the difference. The lamb chops were great. Thank you for the top brother! 

My pleasure sir. Glad that you gave it a try and liked it. At the right times, you can catch Kingsford briquettes on sale at Walmart, Lowes and Home Depot for $9.99 for 40 pounds. I stock up when I find it. Kind of hard to pass up just because it makes more ash. As far as grilling, I honestly have always preferred  briquettes over lump. It's much more controllable and even heating. With lump you either have a inferno or hot spots. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Labor day, Memorial day, and 4th of July are the three main sales for KBB.  @SGH is correct, it will be $9.99 for 40lbs.  They have special two packs of 20lb bags.

DMW

Neighbors a few houses down are moving to Vegas. Tonight on the way home from dropping my big guy off at baseball practice I see they have an old fryer sitting out for the trash. They said if I want it, it's mine, but it needs cleaned and has a slight leak. They just put a drip pan under when they used it.

I've been wanting a fryer, just brought it home



I'll break it down and clean everything up and see about getting the leak sealed. Should be a fun project and can't want to have a dedicated fryer.

nolaegghead

@DMW - that's a score!  PS - clean your garage (like I should be talking).

Ozzie_Isaac

whoa, now that is a fryer.  nice score.

theyolksonyou

nolaegghead said:

@DMW - that's a score!  PS - clean your garage (like I should be talking).

Ha! I was happy to see other peoples garage are not pin neat. 

tarheelmatt

theyolksonyou said:

nolaegghead said:

@DMW - that's a score!  PS - clean your garage (like I should be talking).

Ha! I was happy to see other peoples garage are not pin neat. 

Still pretty dang clean!  Mine looks like it puked on itself... I'm embarrassed now.  

tarheelmatt

One of these days, I will finish this wedding photo edit.  Fearful the bride will start getting all bridezilla on me.  

Botch

I'm still battling the *$&%^! paper wasps who INSIST on building a nest in the rear-view mirror, driver's side, of my Tacoma.  I've driven away, rotated the electric mirror all directions to crush them/the nest, set different traps nearby, sprayed wasp spray onto cardboard and slid in behind the mirror, added a cotton ball to the cardboard to soak up a bunch of wasp spray, now tonight I'm swatting them with my $3 Harbour Freight electric insect-killing badminton racquet (which makes a very satisfying SNAP and spark when I finally connect).  
WHY can't these little f*ckers just go build their nest over there in the rocks, or something?!?!  This is the 3rd nest behind the mirror this summer!  Gah!!!

theyolksonyou

@tarheelmatt my actual garage not so bad.  The basement drive in is absolute chaos

tarheelmatt

theyolksonyou said:

@tarheelmatt my actual garage not so bad.  The basement drive in is absolute chaos

I started working on mine Monday.  Bought some some 1"x4"x8' s to get items off the floor.  I simply have too much junk!  One day, hopefully. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Just finished listening to my daughter read me her new book from her favorite series (Brad Meltzer's Ordinary People Change the World):

Jeepster47

Botch said:

I'm still battling the *$&%^! paper wasps

@Botch ... how about tenting the mirror like they do with houses?  Put the soaked cotton ball in place; cover the mirror with a clear plastic bag; tape the bag in place to force them to breath the spray.  Could use a Freon tank to gas them also.