Culinary Conversations

[worth1]

200 MPH french fries.
I read many years ago that they suspected Big Daddy of using Hexane as a fuel to break 200 mph in the quarter mile.
No idea what he used but it was a good run and his record holds.
I've personally met the man several times in my life and I can't say enough good about the man.
Hexane or not.

[karstopography]

https://straitsresearch.com/report/hexane-market

Hexane is a 2 billion dollar per year market and growing. Seed oil extraction accounts for about 50% of the use.

Funny how people’s food supply is so intertwined with the very companies they hate the most like Exxon Mobil, Bayer Chemicals (Monsanto), Syngenta, etc.

[worth1]

Using solvents and bleaching in the food industry is practically as old as the food industry.
It's the main reason don't buy industrial lard.
I'll get it from the Mexican market or make my own.

[karstopography]

https://www.foodandpower.net/gmos-seeds ... ly%2040%25.

GMOs, the scary part may not be the frankenfruit itself and such, but rather the complete domination of the seed market by two or three mega-conglomerates.

After our very recent experiences with corporate/governmental misguided overreach and gross incompetence, I’m not sure having a very few mega-corps control the food seed market is our best idea ever.

Bottom line, I don’t think I completely trust a handful of billionaires to run and make all the big decisions with world wide food production, but that’s about the way things appear to be.

[worth1]

I recall the time in 1980 a really good friend of mine walked in the back door of his house coming back from work at the same time I walked in the front door.
The idiots in his house had a giant kettle on the stove boiling down marijuana scraps trying to make some sort of oil.
The substance they were using in the kettle was about 2 gallons of denatured alcohol over a gas burner.
The whole house smelled like alcohol.
They were all smoking weed and it's a wonder they didn't blow the house up.
My friend and I turned the burners off and opened all the windows.
He was really ticked off.

[worth1]

Meat selection and prices were poor and over the top yesterday.
What was ounce poor mans cuts are now for the elite.
I resorted to a gallon of sangria and a bottle of port.
A 2 pound package of chopped ham sandwich meat.
Broccoli.
Cabbage.
Cauliflower.

[worth1]

Yesterday's lunch.
Worth $1.24 can of cold ravioli and two crackers.
Gen Z helper. Almost $16.00 at Panda Express plus he drank my bottled supplies of tea and water.
Basically 12 of my lunches in one day.

[karstopography]

Pork butts were $.97/# the other day so I bought the smallest one in the case, 6.5#. I’ll probably cook that tomorrow. It is small enough to use the crockpot, but I might go ahead and use the BGE. I know pulled pork isn’t popular with everyone, but I like it on a slider bun with something like vinegary sauce, pickles, pickled onions, slaw, etc. Easy and cheap, cheap and easy.

[worth1]

Pork butts were $.97/# the other day so I bought the smallest one in the case, 6.5#. I’ll probably cook that tomorrow. It is small enough to use the crockpot, but I might go ahead and use the BGE. I know pulled pork isn’t popular with everyone, but I like it on a slider bun with something like vinegary sauce, pickles, pickled onions, slaw, etc. Easy and cheap, cheap and easy.

Just because I don't care for pulled pork doesn't mean I wouldn't eat it.
Especially if someone served it to me and I wouldn't say anything about my taste for it.
We'll maybe if the dumped Sweet Baby Ray's in it.
Now that stuff is disgusting.

[karstopography]

Pork butts were $.97/# the other day so I bought the smallest one in the case, 6.5#. I’ll probably cook that tomorrow. It is small enough to use the crockpot, but I might go ahead and use the BGE. I know pulled pork isn’t popular with everyone, but I like it on a slider bun with something like vinegary sauce, pickles, pickled onions, slaw, etc. Easy and cheap, cheap and easy.

Just because I don't care for pulled pork doesn't mean I wouldn't eat it.
Especially if someone served it to me and I wouldn't say anything about my taste for it.
We'll maybe if the dumped Sweet Baby Ray's in it.
Now that stuff is disgusting.

I’ve been making my own quick sauce for pulled pork. Mostly vinegar, with some cayenne pepper flakes. honey or brown sugar, just a little of that, and a dash of ketchup. I might add some garlic too. It is very thin, supposedly some type of Carolina sauce, something I found on the WWW. Definitely not sweet and gooey like sweet baby rays.

[worth1]

Pork butts were $.97/# the other day so I bought the smallest one in the case, 6.5#. I’ll probably cook that tomorrow. It is small enough to use the crockpot, but I might go ahead and use the BGE. I know pulled pork isn’t popular with everyone, but I like it on a slider bun with something like vinegary sauce, pickles, pickled onions, slaw, etc. Easy and cheap, cheap and easy.

Just because I don't care for pulled pork doesn't mean I wouldn't eat it.
Especially if someone served it to me and I wouldn't say anything about my taste for it.
We'll maybe if the dumped Sweet Baby Ray's in it.
Now that stuff is disgusting.

I’ve been making my own quick sauce for pulled pork. Mostly vinegar, with some cayenne pepper flakes. honey or brown sugar, just a little of that, and a dash of ketchup. I might add some garlic too. It is very thin, supposedly some type of Carolina sauce, something I found on the WWW. Definitely not sweet and gooey like sweet baby rays.

It's almost impossible to get the southeast type vinegar sauces on pulled pork here.
I was raised with vinegar on the table at all times for greens and such.

[Wildcat82]

I recall the time in 1980 a really good friend of mine walked in the back door of his house coming back from work at the same time I walked in the front door.
The idiots in his house had a giant kettle on the stove boiling down marijuana scraps trying to make some sort of oil.
The substance they were using in the kettle was about 2 gallons of denatured alcohol over a gas burner.
The whole house smelled like alcohol.
They were all smoking weed and it's a wonder they didn't blow the house up.
My friend and I turned the burners off and opened all the windows.
He was really ticked off.

Sounds like they were trying to make Rick Simpson oil. A friend of mine made it several years ago since it was claimed to cure cancer and he wanted to give some to his mother who was in really bad shape.

[worth1]

Just when you think you've seen it all, another horrible chili recipe pops up.
This one involved 4 15 ounce cans of kidney beans and a ton of tomato products more than the beans.
And 2.5 pounds ground chuck broiled in the oven first.

[worth1]

Not for sure how many care or have even heard
Smithfield is discontinuing their genuine country hams.
That's the ones packed in salt raw and hung up to cure.
Popularity has been going down for years as most people today don't have a taste for it in these modern times.
My wife just had to have one years ago, we prepared and cook it properly and she hated it.
I told her she wouldn't like it.

But all isn't lost there are plenty of other people out there producing these country hams to go around if you're willing to pay the price.
Or you can purchase a green ham and fit it yourself.
Not really all that hard but time consuming.
Not your time but the time it takes to cure the ham and age it for months.
Then the smoking process as well.
Used to everyone had a smoke house and their hams were hanging up.
My mom always told the story about how someone stole all their meat in the smokehouse right before Christmas.

There's a pile of videos on YouTube on how to cure and cook these country style hams.

[Old chef]

That's horrible news ! For years I would prepare 2 for brunch at The James Beard House. Served with flaky biscuits. YUM!

[worth1]

That's horrible news ! For years I would prepare 2 for brunch at The James Beard House. Served with flaky biscuits. YUM!

I knew it was bound to happen sooner or later.
The responses and comments made by commenters and cooking show hosts on YouTube told the story plain as day.
Some of our old food ways are going extinct out of ignorance and misinformation.
The kid working with me has spent 60 dollars on junk from fast food this week.
60 dollars in four days and he can't afford a frigging screwdriver and wire strippers.
And he drinks my water and tea.

[svalli]

Just because I don't care for pulled pork doesn't mean I wouldn't eat it.
Especially if someone served it to me and I wouldn't say anything about my taste for it.
We'll maybe if the dumped Sweet Baby Ray's in it.
Now that stuff is disgusting.

I made sort of pulled pork last Sunday by cooking slices of pork loin in Dutch oven and smothered it with Sweet Baby Ray's Honey Chipotle sauce and added my home made apple cider to get it more moist when cooking. It tasted great on top of mashed potatoes. We had it also for lunch during the week and the last bit of it was eaten on whole wheat buns.

Finnish versions of BBQ sauces are awful, so I buy always that Honey Chipotle sauce, if I can find it.

[worth1]

Just because I don't care for pulled pork doesn't mean I wouldn't eat it.
Especially if someone served it to me and I wouldn't say anything about my taste for it.
We'll maybe if the dumped Sweet Baby Ray's in it.
Now that stuff is disgusting.

I made sort of pulled pork last Sunday by cooking slices of pork loin in Dutch oven and smothered it with Sweet Baby Ray's Honey Chipotle sauce and added my home made apple cider to get it more moist when cooking. It tasted great on top of mashed potatoes. We had it also for lunch during the week and the last bit of it was eaten on whole wheat buns.

Finnish versions of BBQ sauces are awful, so I buy always that Honey Chipotle sauce, if I can find it.

I've only tried the original Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce.
No idea what the others are like.
I ended up throwing out the Stubs BBQ sauce because I didn't like it either because it had a strange taste.
My mom's homemade BBQ sauce had lemons including the cooked rinds and I would eat them whole.
It wasn't sweet and very runny.

[karstopography]

@worth1 my dad supposedly has the recipe for Bodiddle’s Barbecue sauce which I guess was a celebrated restaurant around here way back when. I remember the recipe have lemon and lemon rinds in it. It was a thin sauce. For some reason I think there was unsalted butter in the recipe also.

I’ll see if I can find thaf recipe.

[worth1]

@worth1 my dad supposedly has the recipe for Bodiddle’s Barbecue sauce which I guess was a celebrated restaurant around here way back when. I remember the recipe have lemon and lemon rinds in it. It was a thin sauce. For some reason I think there was unsalted butter in the recipe also.

I’ll see if I can find thaf recipe.

Many years ago an old Black guy had a BBQ place in Lampasas Texas.
He passed away but they put his secret BBQ sauce recipe on the Town paper.
That was in the 70s.