The Never Ending Tip Thread

[Fishawn]

----For easy clean up, spray your meat grinder & stuffer parts that will or may come in contact with the meat with Pam (or similar) prior to using

[JustSmoke2]

Don't light the pilot with out first removing your oxygen. My last stay in ICU they brought a burn victim who did this. Needless to say he burn his face and inside all the way down to his lungs. I don't know if it was the morphine but I swore I heard him ask for another ciggy.

[PigCicles]

A plaque in Mom's bathroom:

Never whittle towards yourself or pee against the wind.


Also when you've been up 35+ hrs and everything is almost done for the big family gathering .. Don't sit down to relax when you have a big pan of beans in the smoker finishing off. You will wake up and need to throw them away

[curious aardvark]

4) Wingman gets thrown out of Sun Lakes camp gound at night with a under aged drinking citation followed by a date in the Ephrata court. It's a small court....

Look on the bright side - at least you got a date out of it

Wrap wet items in clingfilm before vacpacking - Keeps the moisture with the food and out of your vac-packer.

[HawgHeaven]

Never watch porn when you are too drunk to stay awake... just sayin'...

[blues_n_cues]

Dumping coals from a chimney in bare feet is a bad idea...

never BBQ in flip flops.

never clean peppers w/out rubber gloves,glasses,& sometimes a respirator.
if you must do it barehanded go pee FIRST,not after.

don't eat yellow snow.

[1Cavman]

Never use the microwave to defrost meat

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups

Never swim the English Channel with a rubber duck

[Crewdawg52]

If I agree with you, we'd both be wrong.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear
bright until you hear them speak.

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train
stops. On my desk, I have a work station.

Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says, 'In case of
emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.'

[Fishawn]

Wrap wet items in clingfilm before vacpacking - Keeps the moisture with the food and out of your vac-packer.

Good one CA, just went through this last night vac packing sausages & had to use paper towels at the tops of the bags..... for a great tip

[Crewdawg52]

Wrap wet items in clingfilm before vacpacking - Keeps the moisture with the food and out of your vac-packer.

You can also freeze what you want to vac seal first, then seal it.


Always have a backup plan if your Q doesn't turn out good.

[curious aardvark]

Never use the microwave to defrost meat

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups

Never swim the English Channel with a rubber duck

Unless you can use a microwave properly - I defrost meat in mine all the time - the trick is to never use the automatic programs - for anything lol

Alway use the lowest power setting for defrosting (NOT DEFROST) and do it in 30 minute bursts for large joints and 10 minutes ones for smaller chunks.
And stop when the outside meat starts to feel warm. Then just leave in fridge - it's not instant but can still cut many hours of just leaving in cold water or days off just leaving in the fridge.
It's like smoking - low and slow is the way to go :-)

My 3 lb packs of pork shoulder steaks come straight from the freezer, get 30 mins in the microwave on lowest setting and are then the perfect temp for slicing and grinding for sausage. Still mostly frozen but soft enough to cut and grind.
Also bear in mind the faster you can defrost something the safer it will be.

[blues_n_cues]

Never watch porn when you are too drunk to stay awake... just sayin'...

[Meat Hunter]

If you don't have an extra coffee mill to grind your spices for rubs and such, make damn sure you "CLEAN" the one you have BEFORE you grind your coffee beans.

This morning, I am drinking a nice cup of freshly brewed Ethiopian ground whole bean with hints of cayenne, salt, pepper and chile powder

[sweet_magnolia]

Some good tips here.

[THE ICEMAN]

If you don't have an extra coffee mill to grind your spices for rubs and such, make damn sure you "CLEAN" the one you have BEFORE you grind your coffee beans.

This morning, I am drinking a nice cup of freshly brewed Ethiopian ground whole bean with hints of cayenne, salt, pepper and chile powder

Heh, heh, heh.