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I have had the best luck making my CI non-stick by useing the least amount of heat possible to cook everything. I use a wooden scraper to rub the surface and polish it. If something does stick to it I scrub it with a plastic brush or boil water in it to loosen the stuff up but the wooden scraper...
If you can cut the end off of a round, to show the end grain, that would help. And if you can split a round and show the grain that will help to ID the wood also.
On the baer grinder, from what I see in the picture, the feed stock does not come off the grinder. Which would make cleaning difficult and time consuming. I went to a couple of restaraunt supply stores yesterday and seen some commercial quality grinders, that are NSF and UL approved, for about...
Usualy I go to Cash n Carry and get a whole top round, about #20+/-, and cut it into roasts or whatever, depending on what Im gonna do with it. Its normally about $2/# that way.
I have a retort like Daniel O'connors that I have used for a few years. The charcoal it makes is not as good as some store bought charcoal but I have never found any garbage in my homemade charcoal and I can use whatever wood I want to use to make it (apple,cherry,oak,etc.). I have tryed the...
Its the diversity and the information overload that attracted me to this place. Yes you can over do it and turn the whole thing into a big soap opera by adding pedicures and sob stories. But there are potentialy alot of people who would be inerested in cooking with masonry pizza ovens, tandoors...