So Saturday caught your OA crack team in the lab pursuing truth through experiential data. As I explained in Part 1 of this post we wanted to discover a better way to distribute the flavor through our pork butt. Mat had the idea that brining the shoulder would get a more thorough distribution of salt [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Brine vs. Rub Experiment Part 2
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Brine vs. Rub Experiment Part 1
We’re trying an experiment this weekend with a couple pork butts in an effort to see which approach is better for flavor; either brining the hog and then applying a dry rub or just applying the rub without a brine. The reason we’re trying this is that, although we’ve had some great results the past [...]
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Amazing End of Season Deal @ the Canyons
Probably the single most difficult part of snowboarding, when you live in Chicago, is being able to come up with the cash to afford your fix. There is nothing worth riding within reasonable riding distance so any attempt to tap your vein appropriately means time off work, airfair, hotel accomodations, food, drinks, shuttle service, and, [...]
Posted in Instructional, Rentals, Review, Snowboarding Tagged Bob Marley, Park City, Southwest Airlines, SpringGruv, The Canyons, The Wailers, Utah Leave a comment
7 Day Detox Miracle Review
Sometime around my 32nd year I really ripped the cord on my waistline. My daily diet of delicious meats, calorically prodigious drinks and interpretive sleep schedule started to catch up to me. Where I had managed to maintain a large, but healthy frame for the majority of my life, around my 32nd year I started [...]
Brinkman Square Vertical Smoker Review
About a month ago I decided to jump into the world of smoked meats. Little did I know I would discover a new means of penetrating the numinous as well as preparing some of the finest meals I have tasted in this world. Seriously folks, if you have any acquaintances suffering from vegetarianism, a properly [...]
Smoked Salt
I was chatting with a friend of mine the other day over several pints of Surly Furious about the many virtues of smoking dead animal. Whether it be the subversion of time, the hours of anticipation, the communal properties of fire, or the ability to offer friends and family religious epiphany by means of properly [...]
Posted in Beer, Grilling, Instructional, Smoking Tagged Bloody Marys, caramel, Chocolate, pasta, Pretzels, Smoked Salt, Surly Furious 2 Comments
Better BBQing Through Chemistry
Science News has a great piece on the American Chemical Society’s chem-themed cook out and it appears that eating your meats properly cooked, that is medium and rarer cuts your carcinogenic intake by, at times, 88%. “Unfortunately, if you ask the [food] safety people they’ll tell you to cremate everything,” said Shirley Corriher, a food [...]
Osiris Duffel Skateboarding Shoe
Osiris makes my favorite low top skating shoe, the Duffel. I love these so much I’ve got 2 pair spare sitting in my closet for when I blow out my present pair. Super comfy, nice and wide for my big feet and sweet detail on them that calls to mind the old Vision Mark Rutgowski [...]
Learning to Drop In
I’ve come quite a ways since purchasing my Arbor Hybrid back in April. When I first received that board I struggled to stay relaxed while kicking around a block or two or maintaining balance while bombing pretty low grade hills. When I first started skating the park at Wilson in May it was on the [...]
Posted in Gear, Instructional, Skateboarding Tagged Arbor, Drop-In, Pools, Powell-Peralta, Skate Park, SkatesOnHaight, Tricks, Wilson 2 Comments