Slow cooked cow tongue, tripe soup, blood sausage, head cheese, cow and deer heart, ox tail....loved those meals. Used to get be able to get this stuff cheap or even free but now it's "fashionable" and they want $5 a pound for it.
Timely thread....I had to jump someone when I was in town. I bought a set of heavy duty jumper cables 10 years ago; 6 gauge if I remember right. They get used every year because my wife's family has a bad habit of leaving electronics on in their cars and destroying batteries. Just the...
Jars with good lids are a great way to store tobacco. Bags tend to be at least semi-permeable which allows air to get in and out drying out your tobacco. Jars will not dry out tobacco, they actually hold the tobacco at the humidity it was when sealed in the jar. Small canning jars are what I...
Probably not many failures......most of the heat is transferred from the heated metal so it's more like a hot iron treatment than totally open flame. Flash heating like that would just sear/glaze the surface. Similar to how wood spears used to be strengthened/hardened by heating the...
I started smoking a pipe at 45; never too old to explore something new. I smoke predominantly cobs and have removed the filters. I found the filters toned down the flavor and absorbed a lot of moisture. Going without filters I find a better draw and fuller flavors when I smoke. If moisture...