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  1. zopi

    Smoking brats

    K..I downloaded this recipe off of a sausage recipe website years ago, and I don't think it is around anymore...which sucks because I had downloaded the entire website and lost my hard drive about a week ago...fortunately I kept a printed copy of this one in my BBQ cookbook... Bratwurst 2.5 lb...
  2. zopi

    Is it murder...

    Oh, I feel ya there..I love it when I make spicy food intentionally bland and get $%^&^ed at because it's too spicy... Nahh..that's not hot...eat this..THAT is hot... (We have liftoff!)
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    Inexpensive Smoker

    Dude..you must be somewhere close to me...I live up in Smithfield.. Yes,,that smithfield...some good hams here locally...
  4. zopi

    Smoking brats

    probably start a fight, but I hate Johnsonville...we tried them years ago, and hated them, got so fed up trying to get good brats...found 'em at the army/air force commissary, but they were wicked expensive... sooo..I learned how to make milk veal bratwurst...my wife refuses to eat brats that I...
  5. zopi

    Foil = Boil

    Propane or Charcoal? Chevy or Ford? (Thhhppt...loaded question..Dodge rocks!) Vinegar or tomato? I foil my ribs for long enough to start them cooking, then open the foil and drain most of the grease, leaving most of the stock...and then pour on the smoke..and I have never had a complaint about...
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    Forget jerky - make yourself some biltong :-)

    I had some biltong from a south african steak house in the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai last winter...good stuff! Had not really thought about making it..but since I have an 80 qt dehydrator...as soon as I get done with drying peppers for the year I'll make some. That steak house...
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    Old Cowboy

    All my life...just equipped with different factory options...
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    Hey Dave Get Your Preperation H And Prey For Ice Cream 30 Pounds Of Chiles Coming

    The Hatch Valley Chiles are typically one og the NuMex varieties...The big Jim and and a few others... My dad went to NMSU With a man named Joe Parker...Who bred some of the first Numex peppers... Jethro, I like your tag line...Somebody asked me who gets eaten first in the lifeboat...Duh..The...
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    Hey Dave Get Your Preperation H And Prey For Ice Cream 30 Pounds Of Chiles Coming

    Lucky! I grew up in Las Cruces, and I SO miss good green chile...My family will send me some every now and again, but it gets gone pretty quick. roast/peel it, dice fine, stew in court boullion with a little onion and green tomato..best all around sauce/salsa EVER! hadda guy at work today...
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    Smok'in Spares & mowing the lawn

    you gotta start thinking strategically....neighbor has a lawmmower...and possibly a teenager....right? All neighbors love BBQ...even some of the marginal stuff I have made.... Soooo....drop a hint....lawn gets mowed...neighbor gets fed.....that Pavlov guy had it going on...pretty soon...
  11. zopi

    First pulled pork try.

    Good luck with the butts... I started cheating when life got too busy a couple years back...slow cook 'em in the oven, all wrapped up to keep in moisture, when they are about 2/3 done I drop 'em in the smoker...hot and smokin'....same with ribs....works like a charm.. I'd still prefer a long...
  12. zopi

    Hello from VA

    I love artillery...I'm a firecontrolman...blowing stuff up is like a religion... THANKS! Well...they have different levels of outdoor courses the leaders mush go through...like four levels later you can quit using strictly briquettes, and then begin cooking over an open fire...can't use...
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    Military Smokers?

    Been active Navy for 18 years...Currently serving aboard USS Monterey (CG-61) and looking forward to retiring the first time in a couple years.
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    How did you come up with your screen name?

    Easy..but complicated...I look alot like Killer the Buzzard from the old Bugs Bunny cartoons...Grew up in largely Spanish speaking southern New Mexico, and Elzopilote is spanish, for "The Buzzard," or "The Vulture." Street slang shortened it to "zopi" Been stuck with it for alot of years...
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    Hello from VA

    I am a cannibal...I'll eat calamari until I puke... Carp is easy...pressure cook it and make fish cakes...the only other thing it is good for is stink bait to catch a more worthy meal...catfish f'rinstance.. Or the old saw about throw the possum (or carp) away and eat the board..
  16. zopi

    Hello from VA

    Hi all..Great site..wish there was something like this when I got started.. Anyway..I'm an 18 year Navy Chief, Have been cooking in various form or fashion since I was a kid..didn't get any good at it until my wife got sick of cooking.. Back about 2000 or so my mom bought me a brinkmann offset...
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