SpaceDawg said:

What are your safe foods Puff?

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BeefSupremeJr said:

im into gulf oysters. its maybe the one thing i look forward to going to texas.  i do have other unpopular opinions about certain foods though

do not like:
poutine
poboy
lobster roll
philly cheese steak
turkey
tomatoe soup

im aware thats theres good versions of all these but its always a crap shoot so i never order it.

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OLDDAD77 said:

BeefSupremeJr said:

im into gulf oysters. its maybe the one thing i look forward to going to texas.  i do have other unpopular opinions about certain foods though

do not like:
poutine
poboy
lobster roll
philly cheese steak
turkey
tomatoe soup

im aware thats theres good versions of all these but its always a crap shoot so i never order it.

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Never had poutine
Not a fan of poboys
Don’t like lobster
Love cheesesteaks but not Philly style
Turkey has to be dark and smothered in gravy
I make a mean roasted red pepper tomato soup from scratch.

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PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

My food confession:

I have ARFID (avoidant reflexive food intake disorder). The short explanation is that anything that isn't a safe food will make me uncontrollably gag if I try to eat it.

It's something that's been incredibly embarrassing my whole life. I was always told to just try things and keep eating them and I'd like them eventually, but it doesn't work that way. I used to have panic attacks at dinner tables when people would pressure me to try things. If I stayed at a friend's house I just wouldn't eat, sometimes for multiple days. I get the same reaction whether or not the food smells or tastes good. It's like my mind just goes into sensory overload and rejects it. It's like asking someone to put their head underwater and take an full breath of liquid.

In the 80s and 90s this was just called being a picky eater. My parents tried everything that was conventional at the time and some unconventional things too. I'd be kept at the dinner table until I'd eat something and would just fall asleep after sitting there well into the night. They even tried wrestling me down and forcing the food into my mouth. I fought them as if someone was trying to kidnap me. Explaining my eating habits to other adults made me feel like a freak.

When I was around 8 my parents just just gave up trying to make me try things, and I learned how to cook for myself.

It wasn't until a few years ago that I starting seeing the ARFID term being mentioned. Apparently it's tied to autism, which really explains a lot. It's a visceral reaction, something I don't have control over. I don't choose to be this way, it's just how my brain works.

Apparently there are therapies that can help with this sort of thing, but I spend most my time working and therapy is expensive AF ($250 a session here) so its just not in the cards right now.

The crazy thing is, I'm sick and tired of my safe foods. The list is so small, and there are so many things I'd like to experience, but it's like I'm stuck in place.

I dunno why I'm taking the time to write this except that it's just a part of who I am.

/melancholy over

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mushboy said:

OLDDAD77 said:

I’ll smoke them for 4-5 hours (I’ve been told that the meat only absorbs the smoke flavor for the first 4 hours anyway) and then wrap and move into my oven so I’m not tied to a smoker for 8-12 more hours.

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ive done it that way as well and i dont notice much of a difference. i do like manning the fire and watching the smoker so its fun for me

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Guys truly, fuck the stall. I spent too many nights like you guys waiting on briskets and people about to kill me for serving it 6, 7 or 8 hours late. Do it hot and fast. It’s a game changer. I learned it from Myron Mixon. 350° until it hits 203°. Cover it after 3-4 hours because it’s not absorbing smoke after that. Use an auxiliary smoker if you’re using a pellet smoker because you don’t get much smoke from pellets after 250°. I auxiliary tubes and trays most of the time anyway.

OLDDAD77 said:

My son is on me multiple time as week asking to go outback and have a fire! Hopefully this heat  turns into fall soon. I like to sit out there with some good bourbon a bushel of oysters and some fat back. I’ll get a nice coal bed going and roast oysters and chunks fat back all day.

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Love roasted and raw oysters! I also love smoking them. O shuck them and lay them out on a pan on the half. I out evoo, garlic, oregano, basil, black pepper & Romano cheese on them and then smoke them at 200-225° until they get color and start to shrink a bit releasing some juices. They get gobbled up by friends and family as fast as I take them off the smoker.




Something else I do is ABT’s - Atomic Buffalo Turds. I half and seed jalapenos and habaneros and stuff them with a mixture of sautéed shallots, crumbled bratwurst and cream cheese. I then wrap with my own homemade bacon and smoke at 275° until the bacon is done. Those habaneros are not for the faint of heart.

Gilmour Hendrix said:

Me and the lady took a little trip today. She experienced closed-eye and some open-eye visuals for the first time. It was fun!

I closed my eyes and saw a bumble bee wearing a frumpy and sunglasses circling the center of a flower. It was just about to give me the finger when I started laughing and opened my eyes. There was a grasshopper wearing a big hat, eating a bowl of jelly or jello or jam or something later.

Decided to give the shroom sex a whirl. Yeah. Not really for me. My mind is so goofy when I sober let alone when I'm tripping. At one point I felt like I was the scarecrow sticking my stump in a big ol' albino pumpkin. Fuckin shit, man! Hilarious! Anyway...yeah
...it was cool 'n stuff.

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Dude, me and my wife belly laughed about this. You had us with the grasshopper. Then that last paragraph…



We hope your wife’s shroom sex was better than yours!

Mr Piggy said:

I’m back, did I miss anything?

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SpaceDawg said:

What are your safe foods Puff?

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Smellyhobbit said:

SpaceDawg said:

What are your safe foods Puff?

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Nuggies, dollars to donuts

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DV8DUG said:

A confession of 7 lost lids...

So to clandestine my operation a bit more and remove my dependency on gas use, I have been trying out hot plates under $50 to run my Presto 16 quart. I found one that doesn't suck and actually runs the PC good with no duty cycles. I have done maybe half a dozen grain runs which involve 3-4 PC cycles each.

I noticed the other day that I was having trouble bringing it up to temp after the vent. Figuring that I had melted another hot plate, I moved the PC into the house to finish this cycle on gas.

After a bit on the gas, I noticed a faint plume of steam shooting out the gasket in the back. Cut the gas and let it come down to atmosphere to open it up and when I did all the jars had domed foil balloons and the thing was dry as a bone. I rushed it outside to see one of the jars extend up about 4 inches like it was going to explode.

Here's some pics of what this looks like.



One piece lids CAN melt in the PC. LOL

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RIP i learned my lesson on pawning off a pc session on someone else years ago. Uploaded may 2017