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The wife has more or less converted me to turkey sausage - for the store bought stuff. But the homemade pork sausage in various forms is still OK. Thankfully.
Getting different levels of doneness using the sous vide. Well, you can't unless you are willing to use two sous vide baths or do two separate cooking sessions. My wife likes her steaks med/rare and I like mine a little more toward med. What I have done, and what seems to work is to simply leave...
An oldie, but still a goodie:
I ordered eggs benedict yesterday and was surprised to find it served in a hub cap from a '57 Bel Air. When I asked the waiter about the unusual presentation, he said
"There's no place like chrome for the Hollandaise".
A hotel was hosting a chess tournament and during a break several of the players were in the lobby each bragging about his play that morning. After a bit the hotel manager asked them to move somewhere else.
The players asked why they had to move.
The manager answered, "we simply cannot allow...
I suspect the low draft in the smoker because of the low smoking temp may have contributed to the pellets going out. The mailbox mod will help because all the draft air is drawn across the pellet tray (or tube).