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  1. 23 minutes ago, Brew said:

    Your kids are probably young enough they will love the adventure of it and not having to sit in school all day every day. I know several families that have pulled their kids out and sailed, gone overseas, etc for extended periods in an educational capacity. Sooner or later they will be teenagers and then it would really be miserable, so why not go for it now. I don’t like mine well enough at this age to be locked in an RV with them for 2 weeks, much less months on end. I’m 99.9% sure the feeling is mutual though. I’m not sure I even like my wife enough to do it, but that’s probably more realistic than doing it with two teenage girls.

    I don't know why no one else has suggested this.  Wulaw, you should buy a sailboat and sail around the world with the wife and kids.  Go big or go home.  Lack of experience should be no hurdle. 

    You're near Houston.  You're practically an islander. :)

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  2. 14 minutes ago, Deej said:

    Because your not handling your guitars with hands covered in brisket fat, at least I hope. 

    True, but this "stink" comes new in box with the Victorinox knives with the rosewood handles.  I thought the reviews were overdoing it, but it's taken several soaks and reoilings to have it where my hands don't stink after I use it.

  3. 1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

    any knife thats decently sharp can cut through brisket.  whats generally good for tough-skin stuff is a serrated or scalloped edge.  the other thing thats good is to have long blade so it doesnt get swallowed up by the cut. 

    no specific recs but something like this victorinox would work well

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    you do see boos on video a lot - i bet they sponsor the show.  i wouldnt care much about end vs edge grain.  personally i think the differences matter more in aesthetics than functional.  just as a main board, get the biggest one you can.  small boards suck.  THAT SAID, i love having small plastic boards for tiny jobs that are easier to clean up.

     

    I love my Victorinox Chef's knife.  Careful with the rosewood handles though, some of them smell (apparently a feature of Indian Rosewood I never got from guitars). 

  4. 1 hour ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    Thanks, but the link isn’t working for me. Is this it?

    Dexter 14" Duo-Edge Roast Slicer https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0029SKFQ0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_kjzZEbFZS1Q4M

    I have a couple of Dexter-Russel meat cleavers that I like. What make was the smaller maple cutting board that Amazon paid you to compliment? They might make different sizes. 

    Might have misspoke.  Look for 12" Dexter Soft Grip Scalloped Slicer.  Should be in the $30--$40 range (used to be cheaper). 

  5. Starting with knives, the 14" Dexter-Russell slicer is great for brisket and is inexpensive.

     

    As for boards, I like maple.  We've had one for 20 years we got as a wedding gift that is in the size range you mentioned.  I think it was from Crate and Barrel, but who can remember.  We got a smaller, but thicker maple board from Amazon last year, which I really like (that's not a fake Amazon review).

    Need to sand down occasionally and apply oil.  That's it.  Here's a sliced packer on it.  As you can tell, it needed a sanding at that point.  But I'd rather have a board that gets worked over by my knives than the other way around.

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  6. 46 minutes ago, bamachine said:

    My brother died yesterday. He had a massive heart attack but it was preceded by him having a fever and a bad cough. We do not know yet if he had it but it seems quite possible, as he was a truck driver, working through all of this, all along the eastern part of the country. The worst part for me, other than losing my brother, is that I will not be able to go to his visitation or funeral. I will just be at his burial, keeping my distance from everyone else. I am one of those higher risk people. I have been cooped up in my house, other than sitting on my porch some, got the last two months, as precaution. 

    Very sorry for your loss, sir.

  7. 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Watch for the mosquitos -- they've made their debut this year.  Don't wanna get the Zika.  Or the West Nile.  Or St. Louis Encephalitis.  Or malaria.  I mean, while we're worrying about diseases....just wanted to bring some sunshine to your day.

    He probably has been taking hydroxychloroquine.  So no need to worry with malaria.

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  8. 12 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Filled out the paperwork and put down the deposit to hold it today. I thought it would be like a car and I’d be ready to drive it out but apparently finance going to call me back today or tomorrow. 

    We shall see. He didn’t seem to think it was a big deal. 

    I'm sure it will be fine.

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  9. 3 hours ago, utee94 said:

     

    Wait-- how do you pull a 5th wheel with a Tahoe OR a Blazer?  Did it look like this?

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    Sorry.  Not an RV guy.  It was a travel trailer, not a 5th wheel.  Had some length to it though.  I don't know the lingo.  Did fine in the flats.  Rockies were another story.

  10. 4 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Ok- so next question:

    Do we pull a truck or not. 

    I was wondering about that.  If you have zero ability to fix things (not intending to insult, but if you don't have tools . . . ), you're going to need a way to drive your 3 kids to a hotel while your wife waits for the guy driving the Rolls a la The Money Pit to do a mobile repair in BFE (or you could wait for him and send her to a motel with the kids; either way).  Pull a Jeep, and have a mechanic go over it before you leave, because it's likely to be less reliable than the RV).  And it might be time to buy a tool kit and watch some videos about how to fix some of the more common issues with these things.  Some of it is probably pretty easy.  And let your kid negotiate the Jeep purchase.  He sounds like a tenacious little cuss.

    For the record:  I have zero RV experience.  But I own a boat, which isn't entirely dissimilar, except you could be stuck in the middle of a lake instead of in the Badlands.  Didn't know how to work on boats when we bought it.  But I know how to work on boats now.  VWs.  Same concept.

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  11. Doing a pair of country white loaves today.  They're rising in the loaf pans at the moment.  I received, as a gift from work many years ago, the Salt Lick Cookbook.  This bread recipe is the only one I ever have made from it because I'm not trying to recreate their BBQ.  But the bread recipe, which isn't anything mind blowing, turns out well every time.

  12. 16 hours ago, markstanco said:

    150 foot line?

    Mynigga.jpg. that's awesome. We are old.

    Yeah, it's the recreational version of a racing ski.  All wooden.  7' long.  Side cut is about 1.5" or so.  150' line and 45 or mph.  Big carving turns.  You barely can hear the boat.  Chop is not really an issue either.  Bought it back when they were a lot cheaper from the looks of his website.  Whole lot of fun.

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  13. 1 hour ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Ok- so I’m a big chicken about winding roads up in the mountains. Every time I go to Colorado in a normal car I freak the fuck out going to breckenridge and say never again. Is the a flat road through the Rockies well to the north?  I don’t want to drive a 33 foot rig thru switchbacks at 8 MPH with cars stacked up a mile deep. 

    Friend of mine did a rented 5th wheel all over CO, UT, and NV, etc. during the summer.  He pulled it with a V8 Tahoe 4x4.  He did the trailer brake, transmission cooler, etc.  He made it, but overheats and slow (annoying to other drivers) speeds on grade through CO were rough.  He said it was great, but not without issues.  And this was 3 weeks with no plague. 

  14. On 5/21/2020 at 11:27 PM, Incredulity said:

    I am 100% no sarcasm rooting for you.

    that said, 

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    I'm both super jealous and not jealous at all simultaneously.  I cannot wait to see it unfold.  Wulaw, may e'erything go your way.  But it probably will be a mix. 

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  15. 13 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    Get a Weber Smokey Mountain. They learning curve is short. The brands you linked have way too many 1 and 2 star reviews on Amazon, and their lower Fake Spot grade means the percentage of low star reviews is even higher. The WSM has very, very few poor reviews, and I’m pretty sure they’re made in the USA (that’s important to me).

    This.  Get a WSM, preferably the 22.5" one.  Load up charcoal and 3 wood chunks of your choice.  Open all vents low and high  Light up 12 of the coals in a chimney, and dump them in the middle.  Foil the water pan (I prefer two clay pot bases in there instead of water).  Assemble.  When it's up to temp (using an external thermometer), close down two of the three lower vents, close the third one down to a pencil width (that's metric), and leave the top vent open.  Once the thick white smoke clears up a bit, add meat.  Cook, wrap, maybe don't wrap, probe done, temp done, read up on it.  But when you get the latter part right, it will be world class as far as you're concerned.

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  16. On 5/18/2020 at 11:10 AM, utee94 said:

    I still slalom.  I'm probably the only person I ever see out on the lake doing it these days.

    We're still slalom skiers, too.

    When it's rough, this Maherajah lonboard is fun on a 150' line.

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