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    Boil some water and test the analog thermometer's reading. It may need recalibrating.
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    I was gifted an All Clad food mill. It was super heavy duty and beautiful. The only problem was that it was a lousy food mill. I returned it and got the OXO I'd asked for originally. It's heavy duty enough and works as advertised (just remember that food mills require a back-and-forth turning motion as opposed to a single direction).
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    With Thanksgiving approaching, I'll recommend the OXO Food Mill and the humble, Amco 32 oz. Fat Separator with a bottom drain. It may be cheap, but it works perfectly and is extremely easy to clean.
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    I edited my last post. For how I use them, I wouldn't worry about 5 degrees if the idea is that it's a heads-up tool to enable me to keep the door shut and the ambient temperature from fluctuating wildly.
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    I haven't heard that before. Mine have always been pretty close to instant read checks. But I'll keep an eye on that next time I use it. edit to add: Theoretically, this makes sense. In the wild, particularly on a larger piece of meat, I wonder how much the variance is. Regardless, I speculate that the remote probe is very useful in giving you a heads up as to what's going on in your smoker/oven, which is useful to the extent that it enables you to keep the door closed and the ambient temperature from wildly fluctuating. Once it's time to wrap, spritz, pull, or do whatever else mandates that you open the door, the instant-read is there to get the most precise reading (or simply probe for tenderness). My remote probes (also ThermoPro) haven't let me down thus far.
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    I agree with this sentiment, but a vast majority of the heat you lose from opening an oven door happens as soon as you open the door. Yes, you'll lose a lot more over 20 seconds than 3--5 seconds, but any time you open it, you're probably dropping the temps 30% or more. What's retained will bleed off more slowly. This post isn't an argument about thermometer choice by any means, and getting in and out quickly is certainly important. If anything, it's an argument for remote probes and leaving the oven/smoker door shut.
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    Very well. Per the websites we're talking 2--3 seconds for Thermopen versus 3--5 for a ThermoPro. Mathematically, that time will add up eventually, of course. I don't feel like I've missed it though. If I were replacing it constantly or if the temp. readings weren't accurate, I'd feel better about spending 7x for El Supremo over El Cheapo, I suppose. But as it stands, no regurts. It's been surprising and I'd buy another one but haven't need to.
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    Mere seconds, eh? Happy probing.
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    What do you guys do with all the time you save? Don't get me wrong. It's top-notch and fast. And if it makes you happy, go for it. But when it boils down to a few seconds to get the same temp, I'm spending the money I saved on some other gadget.
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    I'll chime in on the even cheaper option. Let's say you have a few seconds to spare between inserting the probe and seeing the meat temp, I've had the same $12 ThermoPro for going on eight years. It gets the job done.
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    The Stephen King Thread

    dcbc replied to dcbc's topic in Books

    I've really enjoyed it as well. I read The Outsider before I started reading the Hodges stories and didn't enjoy the Holly character much. But in the trilogy, I finder her quite likable.
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    The Stephen King Thread

    dcbc replied to dcbc's topic in Books

    I need to reread (relisten to) it. I got the audiobook early in my dive into his catalog and, despite my having read nearly universal praise for it, I wasn't grabbed by it compared to other books of his I'd read. End of Watch is next for me. Then, I might jump into Duma Key again.
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    We have some good friends, who, despite plenty of other great qualities, do this regularly. My wife and I and our two kids go to their place. They have 3 boys. 5 strips go on. Maybe two get sliced up for nine people, and 2 or 3 remaining strips go into the fridge. I need to have them over again and cook strips for everyone to model good behavior.
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    This batch will go into the dressing and the gravy. The stock from the T-day bird, well, you know where that's going.
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    Since last year, I've started cooking the Anthony Bourdain "Stunt Turkey" a couple of weekends before Thanksgiving to use to harvest the bones for stock, and the pan drippings and vegetables I toss under the rack for the gravy. That wasn't his reasoning, but the cooking process is really simple. And despite its being just the typical oven-bird, it always turns out delicious and is super easy for those who don't want to go to much trouble in the cooking process. Roasting pan. Rack. Bird. Brush 2 T melted butter over the outside of a 10 lb turkey. Salt and Pepper to taste. 2 cups of water in the pan. Roast at 425F for about 2 hours until it temps done. Baste regularly. Once carved up, I freeze the bones, drippings, and veggies until stock and gravy day next weekend. The veggies get milled into the gravy along with the drippings. I vacuum-seal and freeze the meat, which we give to a family we help out from time to time.
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    I mostly unplugged from 24/7 cable news early in 2021. Even though Trump was out of office, the news still was mostly focused on him. It's simply the purpose of 24/7 news: to keep you watching and sell advertising. They could keep you pretty well informed in the span of thirty minutes, but that defies the purpose. They've got to keep you hooked in for hours. So how do they do that? They either make angry or make you afraid. I decided that being angry and afraid all the time wasn't doing me any good. So I turned it off and found other ways to stay informed, including Surly. Watching that crap just isn't healthy.
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    That's just what Big Ammo wants you to think. Wake up, Sheeple!
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    I mentioned this above, but anyone who has kids at UT, and who are wanting to meet people who are fun, active, and very social: UT Water Ski. Can't ski? They'll teach you. It's been amazing for my son (who could ski and likes to hang out with people on the weekend in a fashion that seems like a good memory to dad), He lasted one week in a fraternity before he (thankfully, IMO) dropped at the one-week mark. I told him if he wanted to drop out and join the ski team, I'd buy him a ski (way cheaper). It's been the best decision of his academic and social existence to day. So, whether you can Water Ski, it might be for you.
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    Son or daughter? I have a friend with a daughter at Auburn who is happy in her sorority. Happy to pass on questions.
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    My older son is LHA in History and is law school driven. His roommate just transferred from McCombs to COLA because he hated it, but he still wants to get an MBA My niece, meanwhile got an Engineering and Plan II degree set from UT, worked two years, and has a Consulting firm putting her through her MBA at Wharton with the promise of three more years. I know times are different, but I have plenty of friends who either work in business-degree fields or got an MBA after a L/A degree. So who knows. I just want 'em edumacated.
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    That sandwich is like, "What am I . . . . ?" /I don't do organ meat except pig skin and the knowledge of a small amount of beef hearts in good sausage. //I've had pate. So it's a sliding scale.
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    Don't get me started on how amazing K&Z's is. But those sandwiches always end up being a knife-and-fork situation with a two meals leftovers affair. It's not a bad thing, but it's a different thing. My K&Z's experience was superior to my Katz's (NYC) experience was. But for Meg Ryan.
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    Agree. And , there ain't nothing wrong with getting a BA before you head to graduate school, engineering and C/S notwithstanding..
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    I think you see her coming into Holsten's from the outside, but then (interior shot) you see the door, the bell rings (Tony's POV) blackout.
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    The worst one by a mile.

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