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  1. Chasdev

    Anybody tried mixing chopped bacon with 90/10 ground beef?

    I saw an recipe that advises to mix raw bacon bits to 91/10 ground sirloin. I'm tempted to give it a go, anyone doing this?
  2. Chasdev

    Higher cook grate in old CampChef 24?

    VERY nice gear! A bit more money than i was hoping to spend though. I'm leaning more now to adding some legs to one of my wife's bread cooling racks..
  3. Chasdev

    Higher cook grate in old CampChef 24?

    Outstanding! Thanks much.
  4. Chasdev

    Higher cook grate in old CampChef 24?

    I was looking at the newer pellet cookers at Academy Sports yesterday and man did they have some cool gear! Sadly all of the nicer cookers came with stratospheric prices, sooo I'm wishing my vintage CampChef had an upper cook grate. Any tips on something I can use other than a flimsy cooling...
  5. Chasdev

    Prayers for the people in Texas Flood...

    I'm a little touchy on the subject of floods having lost my home, cars and all material possessions in the Halloween day flood in Austin in 2013. Onion creek rose in exactly the same fashion as this one, at 6:30 AM water had reached curb height on my street, at 7:00 AM I was standing in stage 4...
  6. Chasdev

    Garden soil test numbers and my new tester.

    I found, but failed to bookmark, an article which says that N can cause bound up P and K to be "released", but not having paid attention in high school, I didn't undermastand the sciencey parts... My latest experiment is a virgin batch of blended soil and compost that has the low readings and...
  7. Chasdev

    Garden soil test numbers and my new tester.

    I'm doing a test by adding increasing doses of of N to the same depleted soil (in a large container) and testing after each addition. After adding three gallons of water with perhaps 5 times the called for single teaspoon of pure N, I finally got it up in a more "normal" ppm range but for some...
  8. Chasdev

    Garden soil test numbers and my new tester.

    I'm down the rabbit hole of soil testing for N-P-K values. Got some advice to stop fussing around with fertilizer N-P-K ratios until I know if my soil is out of balance for the veg I am tring to grow. I looked for home soil test kits and even ordered two only to return after looking in the...
  9. Chasdev

    First time grinding brisket for burgers...

    AND after you extract the tallow, you have collagen.
  10. Chasdev

    First time grinding brisket for burgers...

    I had a less positive experience when I tried it, I trimmed off all the hard fat and skimmed off the top of the soft fat to get rid of the oxidied exterior, chopped it into cubes and chilled it down to give the grinder an advantage but the burgers were tough as heck, just nothing near as tender...
  11. Chasdev

    What is the speed of good airflow in a smoker?

    Don’t measure mine..I already know it sucks!
  12. Chasdev

    Is BBQ Food is Cause of Cancer?

    Many things can trigger cancer and other conditions. Pesticides in food is higher on my list of dangers than over-smoked food. Micro and nano plastics are in everything, all food, all water (unless filtered using special filters), all wildlife, fish, foul, deer, rabbits, wild hogs etc...and all...
  13. Chasdev

    What is the speed of good airflow in a smoker?

    IF somebody would just publish a spreadsheet with all the successful offset cooker's airflow specs..... I would love to do it, so I'm officially submitting soliticitaions for funding donations! Send me enough money to buy every top line cooker and I WILL publish the test results!
  14. Chasdev

    What is the speed of good airflow in a smoker?

    So, speed or volume? Which are you (we) after here? If you seek higher speed, reduce the diameter, air will move faster, but less moves through. The guys that design piston engine racing exhaust pipes have all the math down on paper if one cares to read up on it. They get tangled up in reversion...
  15. Chasdev

    I don't get the hate on Pellet Smokers.

    A quick exposure to meat cooked with clear blue post oak smoke would convince the OP of the difference betweed a pellet rig and a stick burner. I own four Webers, a Jumbo Kamado, a Camp Chef 24 pellet spitter, an Ok Joe Rambler and a cheap offset stickbuner. The flavor proflies are all different...
  16. Chasdev

    Running a Shirley 24X36 with charcoal and wood chunks instead of wood splits?

    Ask a blacksmith how hot charcoal can get. All it needs is 02, with enough it will melt steel. But burning wood makes the meat taste better.
  17. Chasdev

    Coal Bed Getting Too Large

    That's how Franklin rolls too.
  18. Chasdev

    Coal Bed Getting Too Large

    That’s exactly what’s needed, or at least what I’m going to do in future.
  19. Chasdev

    Running a Shirley 24X36 with charcoal and wood chunks instead of wood splits?

    I can't help with your question but at that price level you have a lot of options in the stickburning universe.
  20. Chasdev

    Coal Bed Getting Too Large

    Here's my take..coals produce mostly heat with lesser smoke flavoring aspects compared to burning wood. Burning wood (flames) produce a lower level of heat than the coals but the smoke produced flavors the meat more. Dry wood, say 14% moisture level, burns more completly which produces fewer...
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