FReepathon: Our new Donation System is Ready to Roll! -- Thread Two

Free Republic Donation System ^ | Originally Published 9/28/02 | Jim Robinson

[Grampa Dave]

You sound like my 3 year grand daughter. Whenever there is a mess, she says, "PaPa made the mess!". Even if I'm outside and 150 feet from the mess.

[lodwick]

Thanks for all the roastie hints - all this fowl talk has me drooling here. ;-)

[Grampa Dave]

Yeah, when you combine fatty chickens, Coors lite, limes and try to roast them over that grill of yours in your picture. You can end up with something along the lines of a Weapon of Mass Destruction.

[lodwick]

The peppered bacon hint is way high on my list - plus it's the only variety I purchase.

[glock rocks]

Pete-R-Bilt and i, and our families went camping next to a southern utah lake a couple years back.
while we were there, the remains of a hurricane blew through. it certainly cleaned up the beaches.

the next morning was free fishing day for kids (it's a state holiday in a way)...
so while i was down helping the kids put night crawlers on their hooks, Pete was up
the beach watching the wives prepare lunch, and warming up my propane BBQ.
well, the wind from the hurricane hadn't thoroughly gone away...

after i heard my wife screaming fire, Pete and i passed each other on the beach...
he running for the extinguisher in his boat, me running for mine in my truck.
what we saw was a five gallon propane bottle with a short rubber hose sticking above it
spewing a thirty foot flame above our serene camp.

we both stopped mid stride, and i told him - "there's halon in the truck!"
he ran back the ten yards to my truck while i reached down below the BBQ to turn off the propane.

Pete hit me and the BBQ with halon at about the exact time i had turned the gas off.

trust me, there is nowhere in southern utah to replace a BBQ hose on Sunday.

we went the open fire route. i cooked a huge chuck roast with a couple sticks. the kids loved it. there were no leftovers.

[Jim Robinson]

Just in:

$50 from Ohio
$10 from Canada
$50 from Florida
$20 from Nevada (with an extra $35 via mail - thanks)
$20 from California
$30 from Washington

Thank you FReepers!

[Grampa Dave]

When we entered the age of darkness here in Kali due to Grayout Davis two winters ago, we had to really change a lot of cooking habits.

If the weather was halfway decent I did a lot more cooking on the Weber even in the winter months of the first black outs.

The cost of electricity got a little high. So we bought these telfon keister pushers to speed up cooking the chickens in our electric oven. They speeded up the cooking and with the hot water in the can below the chicken and the insert in the chicken and the moisture really enhances the chicken. Like putting metal skewers in and through baking potatoes cuts the baking time down by about 30%, and the inside of the potato is done.

[Grampa Dave]

You are lucky that Pete got the Halon for you and your tank!

[glock rocks]

the BBQ in post #162 looks good compared to mine at yuba lake... huh, Pete?

[glock rocks]

thank you Ohio

thank you Canada

thank you Florida

thank you Nevada

thank you California

thank you Washington

[lodwick]

Men and their fires - it's amazing how quickly things can go badly with unattended fire. bbl

[grannie9]

LOL LOL.. never...

[lodwick]

$50 from Ohio
$10 from Canada
$50 from Florida
$20 from Nevada (with an extra $35 via mail - thanks)
$20 from California
$30 from Washington

Thanks everyone - super job and bttt

[glock rocks]

the most amusing thing about our little adventure is that i had turned the propane off
and the fire was completely out within microseconds of my being covered in a fog of halon.
the propane tank never got hot, just the BBQ and the hose, which burned off in the wind blowing
burning grease through the bottom of the BBQ... and the physics told me the tank wouldn't
burn due to lack of oxygen inside... but tell that to Pete with his tank of halon. no way, dude.
my reaction to him (as a trained petroleun engineer) was "what the **** are you going to.....?"

his response (as a skilled redneck with a halon fire extinguisher) was pffffffffffffffffffffffftsssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

we laughed quite a while before opening the first beer.

[lodwick]

OOps - you mean YOU did that? Dang - I thought you'd searched the net for that grilling moment.

Let's be careful out there guys. ;-)

[lodwick]

Another benefit of grilling is keeping the heat out of our homes - of course we are mostly trying to stay cool here in CenTex having no real winter at all.

[glock rocks]

no, wait - the pic i posted was from the net.

mine looked much worse (except for the propane tank).

:o)

[Grampa Dave]

Our son who used to be a chef introduced us to Pepper Slab Bacon. That was five years ago, and we have never bought any other bacon since then. We use it for BLT's, seasoning and for fowl to keep the skin and breast meat from getting dry.

If the chicken comes with giblets, I will wrap the giblets with pepper bacon slices and run a wet beer soaked wooden skewer into them and make a shiskabob. I will start them at the same time as the chickens and turn them every 5 minutes. In about 15 minutes, your appetizers are ready with no fuss or bother.

[Grampa Dave]

That also works in N. Kali during Aug and our Indian summers.

[Angelwood]

Bumping through on my way home.