OT - What are you doing now? (2025)

CPFC1905 · August 30

Acn said:

Foghorn said:

Yes!

(Why do I not see others rejoicing with me?)

Add me to the rejoicing list. Both for the return of these summaries and Eze achieving his boyhood dream.

Ouch, give with one hand and take with the other.

No, you're right - we knew Eze was passing through, like Olise did and Guehi will. Attracting the stellar talent in their trajectory to the top is as good as Palace can achieve, and we ride that wave. Wharton is another on that convey right now.

BeanHead · August 30

Finished adding the names to the cuts of meat this morning. If any of you read Chinese I apologize in advance for my poor spelling and calligraphy. I was copying from a blurry photo.

hoosier_egger · August 30

Gearing up for Lee Corso’s final College GameDay show. So glad football is back.

Ozzie_Isaac · August 30

BeanHead said:

Finished adding the names to the cuts of meat this morning. If any of you read Chinese I apologize in advance for my poor spelling and calligraphy. I was copying from a blurry photo.

That is really cool!

BeanHead · August 30

Thank you @Ozzie_Isaac

BeanHead · August 30

Battleborn said:

Whether you like it, hate it or just don’t give a damn, the
Taylor Swift effect is real. My wife actually likes to have football on now. She even bought the NFL Sunday Ticket just to ensure that she can watch all the Chiefs games. So when she told me to get a bigger TV for the garage (our preferred Fall/Winter place to hang out) I jumped. 75” should be good.

I am always learning something new on the forum… when I saw how pleased you were with your new TV I suggested to my DH this morning we should get a larger set. You would have thought he just had a date with Stevie Nicks he was so happy. Went from 55 to 85, hope we can get it hooked up before the games start this morning. Who knew it was that easy?!?

Foghorn · August 30

BeanHead said:

Battleborn said:

Whether you like it, hate it or just don’t give a damn, the
Taylor Swift effect is real. My wife actually likes to have football on now. She even bought the NFL Sunday Ticket just to ensure that she can watch all the Chiefs games. So when she told me to get a bigger TV for the garage (our preferred Fall/Winter place to hang out) I jumped. 75” should be good.

I am always learning something new on the forum… when I saw how pleased you were with your new TV I suggested to my DH this morning we should get a larger set. You would have thought he just had a date with Stevie Nicks he was so happy. Went from 55 to 85, hope we can get it hooked up before the games start this morning. Who knew it was that easy?!?

You would probably get a similar response if you suggest that he get a bigger grill or boat or faster car or bigger stereo speakers or amp or ...

BeanHead · August 30

I think boat is the only thing on that list that might work, but we are not exactly in the land of amazing water sports 🤣 edit: also if you haven't noticed I’m the griller in the house 😏

fishlessman · August 30

BeanHead said:

I think boat is the only thing on that list that might work, but we are not exactly in the land of amazing water sports 🤣 edit: also if you haven't noticed I’m the griller in the house 😏

lkapigian · August 30

lousubcap · August 30

Some group of people are gonna be eating extremely well.

BeanHead · August 30

@lkapigian I’m not saying I should be invited, but I could easily help you get that cleared up.

kl8ton · August 30

lkapigian said:

I like the whitewalls.

DoubleEgger · August 30

20lbs of goodness headed for an overnighter.

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Botch · August 30

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A favorite fall day. Went to the grocer yesterday morning for my annual bushel, they weren't going to start roasting until noon. I returned at noon and the line was 35 people deep!

I remembered a small farm stand nearby also roasted chile, went there, only Saturdays. Showed up at noon today and got my bushel, no line. Also, they only charged me $20, the grocer charged me $35 last year.

Instead of letting them steam for an hour as I usually do, I tried icing them as someone here mentioned (can't remember who but Thank You!) Threw two bags of ice on them and let them sit an hour, then poured off the ice water (everything was fully chilled down). Lookee there, they practically peeled themselves! They're bagged and put in the freezer, won't overwork my old freezer as they were already cold, neat! They didn't carryover-cook to mush like they sometimes do steaming, nice and firm; so I may try making relleños again with them, made a mess with the softer chiles in the past.

BeanHead · August 31

Nice haul @Botch !!!

Battleborn · August 31

Botch said:

A favorite fall day. Went to the grocer yesterday morning for my annual bushel, they weren't going to start roasting until noon. I returned at noon and the line was 35 people deep! I remembered a small farm stand nearby also roasted chile, went there, only Saturdays. Showed up at noon today and got my bushel, no line. Also, they only charged me $20, the grocer charged me $35 last year.

Instead of letting them steam for an hour as I usually do, I tried icing them as someone here mentioned (can't remember who but Thank You!) Threw two bags of ice on them and let them sit an hour, then poured off the ice water (everything was fully chilled down). Lookee there, they practically peeled themselves! They're bagged and put in the freezer, won't overwork my old freezer as they were already cold, neat! They didn't carryover-cook to mush like they sometimes do steaming, nice and firm; so I may try making relleños again with them, made a mess with the softer chiles in the past.

Thanks for the reminder. I noticed Smiths had their roasters out last weekend.

DoubleEgger · August 31

I had forgotten how good a brisket smells at daybreak.

zaphod · August 31

smells like victory.

DoubleEgger · August 31

DoubleEgger said:

I had forgotten how good a brisket smells at daybreak.

This brisket has stalled at 180F for about 6 hrs even when paper wrapped.

When the Cap says the cow drives the cook, little did I know that it would be like a cab ride in Rome.

BeanHead · August 31

That sounds more like a cab ride in Havana 😂. Hot but not the right kinda hot.

lousubcap · August 31

Never had a cab ride in Havana so I can't compare. I can say horn, power and brakes with no eye contact are the basic Rome survival skills. (Can apply to any city in Italy...especially Napoli. )
Paging @Paolo.

lkapigian · August 31

DoubleEgger said:

I had forgotten how good a brisket smells at daybreak.

Funny thing you say this , I hear people say at events “ smells so good , could smell it a mile away “ I dont smell anything

GrateEggspectations · September 1

Very early this morning, I touched up my two favourite knives. They get daily use - sometimes heavy - and hadn’t seen a sharpening stone since last year.

Botch · September 1

GrateEggspectations said:

Very early this morning, I touched up my two favourite knives. They get daily use - sometimes heavy - and hadn’t seen a sharpening stone since last year.

Thanks for the reminder…

hoosier_egger · September 1

Seems like a great day for some expansion joint maintenance. Sand as a filler. Self leveling concrete repair top dressed with sand. It will get seal coated the next time we do the drive.

Also the monarch cats are getting chunky

Botch · September 1

I think my Thermoworks IR thermometer is on the blink. Preheated a SS frypan to cook up some pork cubes, kept checking the pan temp but it didn't seem to rise past 220º or so. I got nervous and poured in some peanut oil, and it started smoking immediately.
Smart Botch would've slid the pan to another burner, let the pan cool, dump the oil and start over, but Real Botch immediately dumped the pork out of the tray, thinking it'd cool the pan down. I splashed pretty good, got my right wrist spattered, but at least was ready with my splatter screen. Two dime-sized burns on my arm.
Pork browned nicely.

Need to dig out the instructions and see if I'm doing something wrong (my personal Superpower is finding flaws in idiot-proofed products). Happy Labor Day everyone!

lousubcap · September 1

Smoked on the stick burner. The pic has no $$$ shot as the cook was 5 St Louis trimmed spares that made it to the local small staffed firehouse earlier this afternoon.
Yep-snuck in a brick of cream cheese for me.
Toothpick test for the win. Fun cook.

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Thanks for lookin'.

BeanHead · September 1

Thanks as always for your support of local service folks Cap!

Elijah · September 1

Botch said:

I think my Thermoworks IR thermometer is on the blink. Preheated a SS frypan to cook up some pork cubes, kept checking the pan temp but it didn't seem to rise past 220º or so. I got nervous and poured in some peanut oil, and it started smoking immediately.
Smart Botch would've slid the pan to another burner, let the pan cool, dump the oil and start over, but Real Botch immediately dumped the pork out of the tray, thinking it'd cool the pan down. I splashed pretty good, got my right wrist spattered, but at least was ready with my splatter screen. Two dime-sized burns on my arm.
Pork browned nicely.

Need to dig out the instructions and see if I'm doing something wrong (my personal Superpower is finding flaws in idiot-proofed products). Happy Labor Day everyone!

They can see through certain materials if I'm not mistaken, and there's a offset you can program in that changes the frequency. Maybe that got accidentally changed.

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