ACamp1900

Thanks guy.

Good to see you out here again.

Can't rep you again, but I would for this: http://www.irishenvy.com/forums/other-college-football/276587-college-football-playoff-rankings-2015-nd-5-a-8.html#post1629535

I think he's smoking crack. Alabama is certainly beatable, but that doesn't mean we're likely to win if we face them. Our defense is more porous than 2012 and we are once again with a young redshirt freshman at QB (Although I like Kizer a lot more than Golson).

I dunno, Piper blended that role as well. He eventually got over with the fans and became very popular, but he'll always be better known for his heel work...just like the Rock will always be better known for his role as the People's Champ.

I have to maintain my internet anonymity somehow.

So from my own internal logic...
If you have meats that don't have tough parts, you do not need to slow cook.
If you intend to eat the meat immediately you definitely do not need to smoke it. Liquid smokes mixed in with the brine are so much better and do not have the phenols/preservatives.

There is just something tribal about smoking. I get it. I don't practice it though.

I do. Plenty. I use underground pits for large amounts of meat (whole or half-hogs, alligators etc,) but for small meats, I have a large teracotta planter that I fill with charcoal and a rack. I flavor the meat wither with dry rubs, wet rubs or injections and brines. COver once it reaches 180-200 degrees. Thats it. Set it and forget it. The purpose of slow cooking meats as I understand it is just break down the collagen and tough portions of the meat. That cannot be achieved at high temp fast cooking times. It has to be slow and low but that is the only reason to do this. So when someone tries to smoke fish with no tough portions.... I faint.

I never smoke. I cook using charcoals and such but I never smoke. The point of it is to preserve meat by inducing phenol creation which acts naturally as a preservative. The side effect of the materials used (wood chips) is some flavor is imparted during this. So while you are getting some flavor from the wood chips, you are also creating the major by product of phenols through out the meat. The longer you smoke it, the longer you create preservatives in the meat. I am a culinary snob and it is unnecessary to induce preservatives into something that will be eaten immediately.

Again, if you hunt and have a bunch of meat a smoke house is the way to go. Otherwise the flavor profile achieved from smoking is so much easier to achieve through non smoking methods and without the creation of preservatives that your body has to deal with.

Glad to hear you're OK, bro.

Yeah, everything's OK. Wife had some minor complications that required a second surgery to repair her incisions and chemo is tough on her, but otherwise all's well. All indications are that they caught it early before it spread and she'll be fine. I had to take a longer leave of absence than expected, but I went back to work this week. How are you? I think you said you had a bout with skin cancer. I hope all's well with you and thanks for checking on me.

What? You don't annoy me?

oh yeahhhhh my bad. I was thinking of the scenes in Walk Hard where they are in the bathroom doing coke and heroin and stuff. Hilarious

Yeah... only time before we go back to the 90's. Ride the whip for all it's worth.

In the words of Al Davis... "Just win baby."

Umm...have you seen the Halloween burger at Burger King? A-1 flavor baked in to the bun and "dripping" with A-1. Yes, please!

Showing my age there. I wonder how many youngsters know how much of an OG Toonces was.

Damn, you beat me to it! Can't rep you again yet: http://www.irishenvy.com/forums/leprechaun-lounge/66737-what-video-game-you-playing-31.html#post1599787

We're having fun, right?

Thanks for the reps...my sentiments on him exactly. I used to be able to engage in a decent discussion with him...but lately its like he quit decency like a smoker quit cigarettes. Shrug???

No problem. I hope you make it. Let me know how it turns out.

It's all good man. Hey if you see any 63-64 Impalas come up for sale in your area let me know. The wife gave me the green light to buy a lowrider!

Cack is in a damn good mood.

Hope all is well bro. great hearing from you. Don't be a stranger. Im trying to get on her more just to stir it up. Funny to see all these youngins. they have no idea what it was like back in the day. What a funny shit storm that was. LOL.

Thanks for the top poster comment. Quantity not necessarily quality.

haha great stuff, ACamp. you da man

Thx....not sure why I was having such a brain fart last night. Long week I guess.

It's a fair trade. Bayern whip ass.

I've liked them since they were shitty in the early 90's. I was in the Army, stationed in Germany, some friends and I went to a Bayern game with some German friends. That was it. I was hooked.