Happy New Year You Surly Bastards!
Everything posted by Texaskimo
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What Is Your Steak/Toast/Coffee Preference?
1 or 2 (depending on cut), 3, A
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Butter is better [Seed oil bad]
I want to believe you know what you're talking about, but your inability to master inequality signs makes me not want to consider any of your technical opinions.
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Pics of parking douche baggery
Are you saying you can't tell from that picture what's wrong with the parking job? He's so far over the line that it's almost lost in the shadow under the truck.
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Pilots Find Mysterious Metal Monolith in Desert
My money is on the group of people that filmed themselves taking it down so they could virtue signal to the internet about how much they respect and love nature are the very same people that put it there in the first place. Arrest them and charge them with theft, then when they reveal that they put it there to begin with and therefore it is not theft nail them for it.
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Pellet Grills and Smokers
Count me in the confused camp too. I'm now self conscious about how little effort I put into cleaning and maintaining my WSM. Dump the ash out after a cook, clean the grates. I also don't bother foil lining the water pan so I spend 1-2 minutes dumping the water out and wiping the inside with simple green. Total I spend maybe 10 minutes cleaning stuff after a cook, and most of that is necessary with any type of cooker. I certainly can't imagine seeing it as a "major turn off."
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What do you order at Whataburger?
Chicago fuckers did something right. Hell yeah! Green chile double was always my favorite, I hate that it isn't a permanent menu item.
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I pledge to post more pictures of this STEAK
I do it, if I see one of the family packs at HEB that looks good (good size cap and marbling) or same at Costco I'll grab it regardless of if I'm planning on steak night any time soon. I'll either cook what I need immediately and freeze the rest or just freeze all of them. Vacuum seal is a must, freezing them in just a ziploc is inviting problems. I've never noticed much if any taste change. I slow defrost them by putting them from the freezer into the fridge at least 24 hours before I plan on cooking them. Usually they don't end up staying in my freezer more than a week or 2.
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Shit HEB Makes (when its open).
You know what else CO2 is a byproduct of? Beer production. LOL at the thought of the beer industry being worried about not being able to get CO2 from other industries. Capture the CO2 from your own process, fuckers.
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Chinese Consulate in Houston Caught Burning Documents in Courtyard
I don't know why they're bothering burning anything. Juan already has General Tso's chicken recipe.
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you wanna see something?
The video you posted about the taco place you are saying is life changing contained the proof that you are wrong. The main person in the video talking about how great the tacos are openly stated that the best thing about them was the cold shredded cheese. Not the freshly made deep fried tortilla that formed the taco shell, not the presumably well seasoned and tender beef... the cold shredded cheese.
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Chinese Consulate in Houston Caught Burning Documents in Courtyard
Pretty much what TwiceHorn said. We have furnaces to burn our documents before bailing, they're using fucking burn barrels lol.
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you wanna see something?
I don't understand. I was expecting some sort of explanation for how "cali tacos" were different. I came away with no new information, and the food didn't look like anything special.
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So I got a WSM...
I got a WSM 18.5" recently and did a smoke on it this weekend, just a basic pork butt. I filled the charcoal ring and put 4 or 5 chunks of pecan in there, I'd estimate it used about 2/3 of a bag of Kingsford. I lit another 25 briquettes in a chimney and spread them across the top of the unlit charcoal, assembled the smoker and filled the water bowl with hot tap water. By 7:30 PM the smoker was at 210 degrees and the meat was on. After that, the lowest temp I saw was 210 at 2:30 am (I had two of the vents fully closed, so I opened them up slightly) and other than that the thing ran between 220 and 235 with one spike up to 250, but I never saw a temp reading higher than 250. I never added any fuel, all I did was add a little more tap water (maybe a half gallon) when the water bowl was starting to look a little low. At 8:00 am, more than 12 hours after it got up to temperature it was still cranking along at 232 degrees. At 8:30 AM an absolute monsoon rain storm blow in and annihilated the smoker with super heavy rain and very high winds which killed the temperature so I moved the pork butt to the oven to finish (it was about 190 when the temperature started to drop). When the storm finally passed I disassembled the smoker and there were still some briquettes in there, along with a nice pool of water/ash soup right under the charcoal grate from the rain. So, I got 13 hours of low temperature cooking and the fuel was not all gone yet.
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I pledge to post more pictures of this STEAK
May belong in the unpopular opinions thread, but I'm with you. For me, there is a point at which the marbling is excessive and starts to detract.
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Who had this in their 2020 Shit Bingo Card? India vs China
I'm on Team India for this one. Chinese food is cheap fast-food filler compared to the seductive luxury that is Indian food.
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minor skills/talents you wish you had:
Sharpening knives. I recently got a set of whetstones and have so far sharpened 4 of my knives with it. They're sharper than they were before I tried sharpening them, but still very far from the results of people who know what they're doing.
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Launching humans into space again from America - Space X
I meant it more as "not in a relaxed posture" than in the military sense.
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Launching humans into space again from America - Space X
Not a fair comparison IMO, the guys up top wouldn't look nearly as cool with their bulky helmets on. Also they're leaning on corvettes instead of standing at attention, much more relaxed poses. Not that I think the new suits are cool, they remind me a bit of Dr Evil's look.
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Ex Blue Bell CEO charged with criminal conspiracy
The HEB locations near me carry Tillamook ice cream sandwiches, but not the ice cream. Any time I want to buy ice cream I stop by Kroger because they carry Tillamook. I'll never go back to blue bell, the marionberry pie flavor is fucking awesome.
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3 Billion Birds Have Vanished from North America
This is the correct answer I think. If you want the bird populated to recover, immediately execute all cat owners and their cats. It's the only way to truly test if this is correct, but I'm pretty sure it won't have any negative side effects. 50/50.
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Grilled Cheese: from the very basic to the very not basic
Grilled cheese and brisket or brisket melt, who gives a fuck. Either name is descriptive so anyone ordering it knows what they are getting, so having a strong opinion about one being "right" and one being "wrong" makes you an asshole.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
What's special about a king mattress in the fitted sheet game?
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Vice President tells NASA to get to the Moon in 5 years.
The technology that would need to be developed to sustain life on the moon/mars as well as the lessons learned in developing that technology would be tremendously valuable to our ability to sustain life here on earth.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
When your homeowner's insurance company, who you've only been with for 1 year, hits you with a 32% year over year increase forcing you to shop for new insurance again. Motherfuckers, I'd like to be able to go a couple of years before your incessant rate creep forces me to shop around again. What are you thinking?
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Wingstop?
I love their cajun. Always order the fries well done. I'd usually go half cajun half lemon pepper. I haven't had wingstop in well over a year though, I moved and don't live close to one anymore but they used to be my go-to wing place.