It’s 70* and sunny right now in Chicago which means, among other wonderful things, it is officially time to melt your face on some fires. Too bad some fucking scrapper hopped our fence and stole the copper bowl from our fire pit last summer. Thanks dick. Fortunately though, Instructables has published a nice piece on [...]
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Big Baby DIY Smoker!!
Can anybody – other than my wife, my landlord or my neighbors – give a a good reason not to build this bad mammy jammy?
Full Outsider’s Almanac Website Still Coming
Don’t lose hope dear internetting ones, we still have every intention of launching the full Outsider’s Almanac website in the near future, it just won’t be quite as soon as we had hoped. We’re pretty insanely busy these days, between writing projects, client needs, body/mind/spirit rehabbing and the pursuit of winter in it’s many splendered [...]
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Baldridge’s Secret Seasoning – for meat & chops
Jim Baldridge was a man of many talents and, before his untimely passing, a good friend of my fathers. I remember him from boyhood, traveling through the empty dust of dirt roads to attend livestock sales with my father. Jim would auctioneer as dad worked the ring and I sat in the stands reading through [...]
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Smoking Hot Ribs
This here’s my Dad, Jim Shirley, just retired VP of The American Angus Association and man of many meats. He’s been a good father and as such made sure that our table was never hurting for delicious cuts. To show our appreciation and congratulate him on his retirement we recently bought him a Char-Griller – [...]
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Captain Curt’s Boss Sauce Review
Wandering through the super market the other day looking for a BBQ sauce to flavor up my already moist and tasty smoked pork butt, I stumbled across a real treasure in both BBQ sauces and Chicago culture. I was immediately struck by the bottle, a color saturated photo of Curtis Briggs, no-doubt the bottle’s namesake, [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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