My mother-in-law saved and bought the Green Egg a few years ago. I know she loves that smoker, and we have discussed what she cooks in it. I just am not sure I would use a smoker too much. Also, BA - sou vide cooker???
Sous vide can be great it just takes a bit longer. With meat it does a great job of cooking to a particular temperature but you still need to flash fry or grill to get the right texture. I find that chicken breast can be tricky to do on the grill - it’s size is inconsistent which makes it difficult to not undercook (poison) or overcook (dry) - so sous vide is great.
I was never interested before. Sounded stupid. Put food in a bag, vacuum seal it, drop it in a water bath and 3 or 4 hours later, perfectly cooked food. Ridiculous. Thenast month somebody gave me one. It's great. Meat is uniformly cooked to an exact temp, always spot on. A revelation.
If I didn't already have the Weber Genesis II, I would have likely gone with a Traeger, or maybe Weber's Smokefire as a pellet grill/smoker combo. But I just got the Weber last year and I don't think anything beats it when it comes to searing meats, and the rotisserie attachment is amazing for doing authentic Bavarian roast chickens. I'm looking forward to being able to fire up some burgers or steaks one night while having a brisket or pork butt on for tomorrow.
Is this thread the place where I should provide an update that I finally received a new KitchenAid stand mixer? Over five months after I purchased the original lemon. A handful of calls to customer service over these months... It is majestic yellow, and I am both in love and afraid it will only work three times and then never work again (like the original one I purchased last October).
Enjoy! Glad you were able to finally sort that out. Hopefully this one will perform better. I'm still using the one we got for a wedding present, 20+ years later. In other news, I've been smoking a pork butt since before midnight and I put on a chicken at 6 am on my new Pit Boss Pro Series II 4-series. I feel like it's dumb luck, but both meats are looking to cross the finish line at the same time.
Well, since we're comparing notes, I finally got back into the sourdough baking swing this past week. Baked two loaves yesterday that turned out well (using the Tartine method where they bake in a Lodge combo-cooker). I'm torn on KichenAid. Years ago, I bought a big-ass Epicurean model; bigger bowl, more wattage than the Artisan model. But KitchenAid seems to have re-designed the gear housing when it was made (at least during model year I got). They switched to a (cheaper) plastic housing, instead of a metal one. Meaning, when the mixer got hot (like, you know, anytime you used it to make bread), the plastic would expand, allowing for some play in the gears, which eventually led to failure. I bought a new gear set and repaired it myself. Still, functions, but sounds like it's going to seize up at any moment. My wife's ancient KA (Artisan) mixer, on the other hand, is as smooth as glass. They really are the mixer to get, look great, work well... in general. But once bitten, as they say.
I hate to interrupt the food talk but I have an important announcement. Welcome my new little guy and newest Crew fan, Kai!
Forty-one years ago today:Lake Placid, N.Y.Olympic ice hockey medal round, 5 p.m. game:FinalSoviet Union 3United States 4“Do you believe in miracles? ... Yes!”— Illinois Golfer (@IllinoisGolfer) February 22, 2021 Damn, I feel old.
The thing that is forgotten is that wasn't the gold medal game but a semifinal. I watched the final vs Finland with Pekka, an exchange student from there.
And in true Olympics fashion, it wasn't shown on live TV. It was very much a harbinger. I did hear that NBC planned to show the 2021 Opening Ceremonies live, assuming things actually go ahead. (Yes, I know it's officially the 2020 Olympics, but it's dumb to call it that.) Hopefully NBC can use Peacock to show a ton of stuff live while keeping their sappy "Special Primetime Telecast" shows. Women apparently love that stuff. Endless swimming in the summer and endless figure skating in the winter. "Look away from the screen while the music plays if you don't want to learn what you'll see 10 hours from now." At least they figured out that part. Oh and don't get me started on NBC interrupting a tape-delayed Closing Ceremonies to show a premier of a new show, local news and then coming back for one of the biggest rock bands of all time.
I'd call it the opposite of a harbinger. We get far, far more live Olympics coverage now than we ever used to. Except for Olympics held in a US timezone (or close), ABC (and it was always ABC back then; Jim McKay, man!) always produced Olympics events coverage from that day for a prime time broadcast that evening, pretending that no one knew the results beforehand. Which often was the case, in a pre-internet world. They broke with that approach for the US-Russia game, because they knew the whole country already knew the result.
Nothing .arks ones age quite like the pre-internet reporting of sports scores. It is difficult to imagine that it was not that long ago when you waited two weeks or more for your copy of SoccerAmerica to appear in your mailbox - and it was always late - to find out who won a particular European game. Your local newspaper didn't print soccer results and there was no place else to go. Finally when SA appeared you found out that Liverpool lost to Arsenal two weeks ago. Not that long ago.
In 1985, I fell asleep in front of my tv waiting for what would become the legendary Villanova-Georgetown national championship game (in my defense, I'd just gotten back from an Italy/Israel/Egypt trip the day before and was badly jet lagged). Woke up around midnight. There was no way, at that time, to find out who won. I even tried to call the Dispatch, but got no answer. There was a time when they had a service called "dial a score", but that was gone by then. Soccer scores? I'd go to the university library and look for week old (or more) copies of the Frankfurter Allgemeine--and there was one newsstand in State College that would sell the Sunday Bild. There was also one news stand on Market Street in Philly that would have the occasional copy of Kicker (as did Little Professor in Upper Arlington, from time to time).
Actually, the thing that's forgotten is that it WASN'T a semi-final, because the format was different. It wasn't quarterfinal, semifinal, final like it is now. The medal round actually used a standings sheet. The U.S. finished with two wins in the medal round, plus the tie they got against Sweden in group play (which counted because Sweden also made the medal round) for a total of five points. That was good for gold. If the U.S. had lost to Finland, it would have been possible that they didn't win any medal at all.