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itsmce
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I think I should have bought stock in the Reynolds company when I bought my BGE 2 years ago. I sure do use a bunch of the stuff and I bet I'm not alone. I wrap the platesetter; I use it to protect over-hanging proteins; FTC; I do a lot of foil pouch cooking of veggies. I'm thankful that Sam's usually has a good deal on the stuff.
Tonight's meal was meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and home-canned beans. The foil pouch tonight contained the garden potatoes and a little water tightly closed. Potatoes cooked while the meatloaf cooked. Once done, into the house for a quick mash. Good stuff!
No pictures, but it really did happen. I promise.
Tonight's meal was meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and home-canned beans. The foil pouch tonight contained the garden potatoes and a little water tightly closed. Potatoes cooked while the meatloaf cooked. Once done, into the house for a quick mash. Good stuff!
No pictures, but it really did happen. I promise.
Large (sometimes wish it were an XL) in KS
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Same here. SAMs. Wire tied to the pantry door. Straight up trailer park macgyver yo.Slumming it in Aiken, SC.
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Lol, I just bought 4 HD rolls at SAMs today
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SAMS foil roll customer here too! I just wish I could hit some antique mall some time where I could find one of those old hanging roll cutters with the big blade used in butcher shops of yore to rip off a sheet to size of paper or now aluminum foil. I thought about making my own version, which I may when I figure what to use for a good sharp edge...OH BOY>>>now I won't get to sleep again tonight designing that roll dispenser!!!
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MIL keeps me stocked up
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I use no more than I did before the egg. Rarely wrap the PS, never have overhanging food, I don't FTC and I don't cook in pouches. I didn't before the egg and I haven't changed. I bought a small roll of HDAF about 2-3 years ago. Almost never use it.
I nuked a "baked" potato tonight. No foil allowed.I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!
MichaelCentral Connecticut -
Try...just once a foil wrapped baked potato on the egg. It won't be your last time! Especially if your standard is a microwaved potato.Large (sometimes wish it were an XL) in KS
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I've done them on the egg before. Just not foiled. They are better than nuked. But not better enough to wait that long.
I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!
MichaelCentral Connecticut -
I was in a Chipolte a few days ago, I noticed they had these huge hunking boxes of Reynolds wrap ... obviously restaurant size. Question, where can I buy that size at?I've slow smoked and eaten so much pork, I'm legally recognized as being part swine - Chatsworth Ca.
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Carolina Q said:I've done them on the egg before. Just not foiled. They are better than nuked. But not better enough to wait that long.
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@SoCalTim I imagine Restaurant Depot has them...Houston, Texas
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RRP said:SAMS foil roll customer here too! I just wish I could hit some antique mall some time where I could find one of those old hanging roll cutters with the big blade used in butcher shops of yore to rip off a sheet to size of paper or now aluminum foil. I thought about making my own version, which I may when I figure what to use for a good sharp edge...OH BOY>>>now I won't get to sleep again tonight designing that roll dispenser!!!
How about a hack saw black. I just did a quick search and found one 18 x 1.5 x 6tpi for $10.50 and one 21 x 2 x 6tpi for $14. I would think that would do the job and should last for a long time. You may be onto something here. "If you build they will come".
Titusville, Fl. and just bought XL and Med BGE. "Every Day is A Bonus" in my world, and my job is to choke the life out of them. Cancer Sucks. -
itsmce said:Try...just once a foil wrapped baked potato on the egg. It won't be your last time! Especially if your standard is a microwaved potato.
Just coat with butter or olive oil and roll in or sprinkle on Kosher salt and go naked! That way, you can get some of the smoke flavor on it. You won't get that if its wrapped in foil.Dave - Austin, TX -
I bought a giant roll from RD about 3 years ago and I'm getting close to the end, but still working on it. FTC pretty much everything, but don't even own a PS and have never foiled anything on my AR. I probably use more $ in disposable AL drip pans than anything else, but my largest consumable expenditure is still lump (not counting meat). I don't crutch much; ribs occasionally if I'm running behind. I wonder how much more AL foil comp teams use than average backyard smokers...
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Finally back in the Badger State!
Middleton, WI -
I'm afraid of alzheimers. I don't use it at all.They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That's against their interests. - George Carlin
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I line my colander with it and use it as a skull isolator to keep THEM from listening to the voices in my head telling me to buy more BGE stuff.
"Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber
XL and MM
Louisville, Kentucky -
SoCalTim said:I was in a Chipolte a few days ago, I noticed they had these huge hunking boxes of Reynolds wrap ... obviously restaurant size. Question, where can I buy that size at?XL,L,SWinston-Salem, NC
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I buy the large roll of Bakers and Chefs foil that comes with a cutter on the box. The box is 18" x500' and generally sits in the cabinet, and I just pull and rip.
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Terrebandit said:itsmce said:Try...just once a foil wrapped baked potato on the egg. It won't be your last time! Especially if your standard is a microwaved potato.
Just coat with butter or olive oil and roll in or sprinkle on Kosher salt and go naked! That way, you can get some of the smoke flavor on it. You won't get that if its wrapped in foil.
Yep. Naked is the way to go on potatoes. Otherwise you are steaming them.
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i like foiled potatoes from time to time, steamed with a stick of butter with garlic, onions, peppers, some rub, why the hatred i dont foil though, i use my seafood cataplana.
fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it -
seems like a fitting place to mention the tabs on the end of the box that secures the roll in the box, i cant believe how many people have never noticed them
fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it -
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I use Reynolds standard aluminum 12"x1000' & heavy duty 18"x500' from Costco.XL BGE, 22" Weber Red Head, Fiesta Gasser .... Peoria,AZ
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Which came first the chicken or the egg? I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg.
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