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    Local To Your Area Recipe Thread?!

    I'm curious to find out what the Idaho recipe is...having both grown up, and retired back here, I'm blanking on what it might be. Finger steaks? Not found too often elsewhere. Fry sauce? Found everywhere here and in Utah, not so much in other states. We do eat a lot of rainbow trout, but...
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    Oak leaf #7 cleaver

    Oooohhhh. I hadn't considered that. I remember Mom and some German relatives who came out to visit from where she grew up outside of St. Louis making pork sausage on the farm when I was young. I assumed this was part of the process. I don't recall her ever grinding grain, but that would...
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    Oak leaf #7 cleaver

    This got me curious enough to dig out Mom's old meat grinder, which also likely came from the St. Louis area. It's a Polly Prim, another common grinder from that era. We've only got the one plate for it, I suspect it originally came with a set. One of these days I have to try it out.
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    Crazy Wind - 65-80 Mph tossing semi’s today….

    I well remember the Southern Idaho winds, having grown up there. We had gusts of 70 mph plus last night here in North Idaho...which brought this very large fir tree down on our house. A couple of neighbors showed up, one with an excavator, and we had it off the house and cut into...
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    Shotguns! Can We Chat?!

    I shot a lot of ducks with a 20 gauge in southern Idaho when I was growing up, but this was mostly jump shooting on small creeks. A 12 gauge is generally a better choice for ducks, and especially for geese. 20 is fine for smaller game birds. But I understand that you want to limit his...
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    Had a snow storm come through today

    Words to live by. Do NOT piss into the snowblower :emoji_wink:
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    Howdy from Washington State

    Hello from North Idaho!
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    Red's Santa Maria Build - A Custom Grill for JIMSMOKES!

    Based on the craftsmanship I’m seeing, I’d have thought he’d build his own tow vehicle!
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    A Pizza Tour of the Midwest

    Thanks for the suggestion! I wasn’t aware of that style. I welcome any other regional suggestions from the members here I’ve been considering the New Haven style ‘apizza’, which sounds good and has an enthusiastic regional following-but it should be cooked in an extremely hot coal-fired...
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    A Pizza Tour of the Midwest

    Thanks, Ray, For our cast iron skillet pizza, we bake at 450 for 20-22 minutes. The Chicago Deep Dish cooked in a stainless steel skillet resting on a preheated pizza stone, and it also cooked at 450, 20 minutes uncovered, and another 15 with a sheet of foil loosely covering it. Detroit...
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    A Pizza Tour of the Midwest

    All done without leaving home... We’ve been making a lot of pizza in the cast iron skillet, using prepared dough, commercial sauce, pre-shredded mozzarella, and whatever toppings we feel like at the time. Skillet pizza is easy, and quite good, but I wanted to branch out into some other...
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    AI food prep robots

    I see they are both highlighting this year’s hot marketing term, AI. I doubt that artificial intelligence is needed for either, simply programming in the algorithms for the various dishes would suffice. I’m sure they will find a niche; plenty of people like expensive kitchen gadgets and see...
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    You Know You Live In A Redneck Town….

    NJ does that in a number of places; your mailing address is in a different county than where you reside. Maddening. And in some pretty upscale places, too, so not a lot of rednecks. I've no problem with jury duty, but for over a decade when I still lived in NJ I didn't get to serve...the...
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    Playa Del Carmen Suggestions

    I've not stayed there, but I've passed through a number of times. If you want to see some very cool Mayan ruins out of town, Tulum to the south is great, and Chichen Itza to the west is spectacular. Xel Ha, a kind of ecological amusement park, is also to the south, before you get to Tulum...
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    Summer Throwdown Winner

    I knew from the photo that it was going to be a substantial blade...imagine my concern when Amazon dropped off the box. I thought they had mistakenly shipped a Dalstrong machete. Yep, the knife was the only item in that box.
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    Summer Throwdown Winner

    My knife arrived yesterday. It’s a beauty! Thanks, SMF!
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    Summer Throwdown Winner

    Thanks, @bmudd14474, and the judges and to the forum for hosting. Congratulations @civilsmoker ! Admittedly, our entry got way out of hand. We knew the competition would be fierce. We knew @civilsmoker was probably going to enter... We knew we needed something out of the ordinary to make an...
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    How did you come up with your screen name?

    I'm a research chemist by training, and I like smoking food. The screen name is pronounced "smoke 'em". Before moving back west, my wife and I had dabbled in a few BBQ contests, so that's the name I registered with KCBS.
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    Sauerbraten for Oktoberfest

    This was a top round, which worked well. I’ve used eye of round before, and I had one in the freezer, but I prefer using that cut for jerky.
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    Sauerbraten for Oktoberfest

    We have some great local Oktoberfest celebrations near us, and as enjoyable as they are, I still make sure to put one together at home. Sauerbraten is always on the menu; the beef was marinated in red wine/red wine vinegar with sliced onion and the appropriate spices for 4 days before going...
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