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It's lovely to reflect back on the days' work, and think that not even the Pharos possessed a machine which automatically created ice 24/7 and dispensed it upon demand, nor a kitchen sink which didn't leak from the drain piping.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1387868)
Countdown: only 3 hours to slow-cooker porky goodness.
Coincidence!? https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...04bbbf1dd8.png |
Originally Posted by Monk
(Post 1387885)
Coincidence!?
1.8 lbs pork loin, 7 hours in the crock-pot on low, fat-side up, with about a cup of water in the bottom. Drained, shredded, and put back in for another hour along with one diced bell pepper, one diced onion, some hoisin sauce, some brown sugar, 4 cloves minced garlic, a heaping spoon of shredded pickled ginger, a bit of white pepper, a healthy squirt of spicy yellow mustard, a healthy amount of rice wine vinegar, and a splash of soy sauce. Served over brown jasmine rice. https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...7a81777190.png Didn't even need any sriracha, which I usually heap onto everything. Also, the hack-job that a prior amateur plumber did under the sink because he/she was too damned lazy to source the proper length hose to feed the cold side of the faucet: https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...e3a486d2b5.png I won't pretend that the new setup is going to win a Nobel Prize for plumbing, but at least there's no fucking steel pipe dangling from it. (And it doesn't leak anymore...) https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...dbc511d6aa.png The value of a good-quality pipe wrench cannot be underestimated. I have a lightweight Husky brand aluminum one from Home Depot. Beats the hell out of channel-lock pliers. |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1387954)
Also, the hack-job that a prior amateur plumber did under the sink because he/she was too damned lazy to source the proper length hose to feed the cold side of the faucet: I won't pretend that the new setup is going to win a Nobel Prize for plumbing, but at least there's no fucking steel pipe dangling from it. (And it doesn't leak anymore...) https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...dbc511d6aa.png The value of a good-quality pipe wrench cannot be underestimated. I have a lightweight Husky brand aluminum one from Home Depot. Beats the hell out of channel-lock pliers. |
Originally Posted by bahurd
(Post 1387970)
Pork sounds good. Is it customary in Chicago to use galvanized steel piping as sewer drain lines? The copper water feed looks like some turbo supply lines you see around the web. Ball valve would've been appropriate.
Plumbing code in Chicago is weird. Drain lines are required to be galvanized steel or sweated copper. No PVC. (Thanks, Local 130.) I tried to find a tee and quarter-turn valve for the fridge feed, but I couldn't come up with anything that would work with the 3/8" compression-style fittings that were already present. What I wound up with was Watts p/n LFA-139, a brass tee with 3/8" comp fittings on both sides, and needle valve with a 1/4" comp outlet on the top: https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...b3c30d413e.png (I discarded the hardware it came with.) I used a 20" hose with 3/8" comp on both ends (the rubber-gasket kind) to attach that to the supply, and then a 30" hose with 3/8" comp on one end and 1/2" IPS on the other to attach to the faucet, replacing the steel pipe extension in the process. The feed to the fridge is just standard 1/4" OD copper tube, with brass-sleeve type comp fittings on both ends. EDIT: And I seriously can't get over how amazing it is to have ice that basically makes and dispenses itself. No more ice cube trays, no more opening the freezer door and letting out all the cold air just because I want a couple of ice cubes. Is this how the 1% live? https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...20e1938d3d.png |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 1387975)
The pork was fucking amazing. I'm gonna double the proportions next time so that I have a week's supply.
Plumbing code in Chicago is weird. Drain lines are required to be galvanized steel or sweated copper. No PVC. (Thanks, Local 130.) I tried to find a tee and quarter-turn valve for the fridge feed, but I couldn't come up with anything that would work with the 3/8" compression-style fittings that were already present. What I wound up with was Watts p/n LFA-139, a brass tee with 3/8" comp fittings on both sides, and needle valve with a 1/4" comp outlet on the top: https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...b3c30d413e.png (I discarded the hardware it came with.) I used a 20" hose with 3/8" comp on both ends (the rubber-gasket kind) to attach that to the supply, and then a 30" hose with 3/8" comp on one end and 1/2" IPS on the other to attach to the faucet, replacing the steel pipe extension in the process. The feed to the fridge is just standard 1/4" OD copper tube, with brass-sleeve type comp fittings on both ends. EDIT: And I seriously can't get over how amazing it is to have ice that basically makes and dispenses itself. No more ice cube trays, no more opening the freezer door and letting out all the cold air just because I want a couple of ice cubes. Is this how the 1% live? https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...20e1938d3d.png Put a 1/4npt to 1/4 compression elbow in the end (or just put a 90 in the copper piping with a 1/4npt to 1/4 fitting. If your valve decides to leak in a few months. They need to be opened/closed once in a while because the stems get minerals built up and freeze up or leak after usage. |
Originally Posted by bahurd
(Post 1387984)
Here: Midwest Control Mini Brass Ball Valve
Put a 1/4npt to 1/4 compression elbow in the end (or just put a 90 in the copper piping with a 1/4npt to 1/4 fitting. If your valve decides to leak in a few months. They need to be opened/closed once in a while because the stems get minerals built up and freeze up or leak after usage. Other ball valves, some slightly larger than 1/4": https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...dd7d8a3900.png https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...55cce9ebfc.png https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...e258a89a5a.png https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...cd37952ce2.jpg https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...af2e36a7f2.png https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...f6f8b4111f.png https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...589f61ac5e.png https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...97ad7a79df.png |
I've been doing this smoking thing for a few months now. Cheating with electricity but smoking none the less. I'm getting good.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
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It was delicious and moist.
1.8 lbs pork loin, 7 hours in the crock-pot on low, fat-side up, with about a cup of water in the bottom. Drained, shredded, and put back in for another hour along with one diced bell pepper, one diced onion, some hoisin sauce, some brown sugar, 4 cloves minced garlic, a heaping spoon of shredded pickled ginger, a bit of white pepper, a healthy squirt of spicy yellow mustard, a healthy amount of rice wine vinegar, and a splash of soy sauce. Served over brown jasmine rice. |
Here's another type of ball valve that is smaller than the ones Joe posted.
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...7658ed7a98.png New implant allows men to turn their fertility on and off with the flick of a switch | Daily Mail Online BTW Joe, do you pre-brown your pork before sticking it in the pot or do you give up flavor like a sucker? |
Originally Posted by z31maniac
(Post 1388130)
Just out of curiosity, why didn't you go with a more flavorful liquid? Veggie stock? Nice mexican beer? But water. Just didn't have anything else or?
Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 1388185)
BTW Joe, do you pre-brown your pork before sticking it in the pot or do you give up flavor like a sucker?
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faelflora (of all people) sent me a link about how crock pots are inferior to other low and slow cooking methods because they do not generate the most flavor.
Why Anything Slow Cookers Can Do, Others Can Do Better | Serious Eats I question him providing information related to meat cooking as he is a smelly vegan, but it was an interesting read. I do have a big ol pork butt in the freezer. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...af670013f0.png |
Originally Posted by y8s
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One is that, with a crock-pot, I can prep the meat the night before and put the whole pot into the fridge, pull it out the next morning and stick it on the cooker before I leave, log in with my phone and turn it on around 11am or noon (thanks, Con Ed), and arrive home in the evening just as it's finished. Can't do that with the main oven. The other is a quote from the website linked to above: "This may seem like a good thing, but in practice, it means that a slow cooker cooks, well, more slowly, and in most cases never achieves the same results as foods cooked in a Dutch oven. Vegetables remain firmer. Meat remains tougher." Meat remains tougher? I can toss the toughest cut of beef into that thing, and after 8 hours it'll literally slide right off the bone. 7 hours for a pound and a half pork loin and I can shred it with my fingers (or, more preferably, two forks, as I don't like burning my fingers on hot pork.) I totally buy the whole malliard reaction thing, and like I said, I'm only doing sauce-based meat recipes in here, not stuff like carnitas or brisket in which the browning of the meat is crucial. Different tools for different uses. https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...7061cf24ae.png |
^Speaking of using the right tool, what is the appropriate tool for traveling short distances?
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I wonder if they were in the million women march?
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Black people be angry about popeyes running out of chicken :D
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I want Tom Brady to win the Super Bowl, and yell: How you like my balls now?!
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Apparently, commercial pet transport is sufficiently in demand in Chicago to warrant this:
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I thought full potato was random this morning. Nope, just a sign.
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Learning random things by Googling someone's sticker:
Sanskrit is a polysemic language and as such, this mantra has multiple interpretations all of which may be considered as correct. "Hare" can be interpreted as either the vocative form of Hari, another name of Vishnu meaning "he who removes illusion". Another interpretation is as the vocative of Harā,[5] a name of Rādhā,[6] Krishna's eternal consort or His energy (Krishna's Shakti). According to A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Harā refers to "the energy/shakti of Supreme Personality of Godhead" while Krishna and Rama refer to Supreme Godhead Himself, meaning "He who is All-Attractive" and "He who is the Source of All Pleasure".[7][8] In the hymn Vishnu Sahasranama spoken by Bhishma in praise of Krishna after the Kurukshetra War, Krishna is also called Rama.[9] |
Originally Posted by hankclaussen
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Learning random things by Googling someone's sticker:
Sanskrit is a polysemic language and as such, this mantra has multiple interpretations all of which may be considered as correct. "Hare" can be interpreted as either the vocative form of Hari, another name of Vishnu meaning "he who removes illusion". Another interpretation is as the vocative of Harā,[5] a name of Rādhā,[6] Krishna's eternal consort or His energy (Krishna's Shakti). According to A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Harā refers to "the energy/shakti of Supreme Personality of Godhead" while Krishna and Rama refer to Supreme Godhead Himself, meaning "He who is All-Attractive" and "He who is the Source of All Pleasure".[7][8] In the hymn Vishnu Sahasranama spoken by Bhishma in praise of Krishna after the Kurukshetra War, Krishna is also called Rama.[9] Long version: |
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Originally Posted by EO2K
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"Shia LaBeouf" Live FEATURING: The Gay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles -- Dr. Joseph Nadeau, Artistic Director The West Los Angeles Childrens Choir -- Barbara Klaskin Silburg, Artistic Director The Argus Quartet |
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Finally, Trump passes a useful Executive Order:
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I'd never really noticed the shortcut name for the Block Attributes Manager until just now:
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The guy's serious about his meat.
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