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brucefxdl
1 year ago

Quoting Soapbox2627 on 08 Feb 2023 12:12 AM
Done a cook yesterday, Orange and maple syrup ham, pork ribs and some shotgun shells, the crackle on the ribs was a bit light on so touched it up with the gas burner, and the crackle mouse (missus) started stealing it off the top

looks good Soapy...shot gun shells...banana in bacon ?

Soapbox2627
1 year ago

Quoting Soapbox2627 on 08 Feb 2023 12:12 AM
Done a cook yesterday, Orange and maple syrup ham, pork ribs and some shotgun shells, the crackle on the ribs was a bit light on so touched it up with the gas burner, and the crackle mouse (missus) started stealing it off the top

Quoting brucefxdl on 08 Feb 2023 10:31 AM
looks good Soapy...shot gun shells...banana in bacon ?

no bacon wrapped banana this week

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Soapbox2627
1 year ago

pulled a couple more pumpkins from the garden with my first watermelon
cooked a tomahawk for tea, the wife and I shared a third tonight, we will share the other two thirds with our foster kid tomorrow night

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obisteve
1 year ago

Spent Wednesday and Thursday high up on Mt Gibbernee, about half way between Mt Stanley and Kingaham, working a fire in steep heavily timbered country. Took over an hour to reach the fire on station tracks after we left the last dirt road. Driving an Isuzu 7 ton truck the first day, but working on foot down in deep gullies. Got home at 9pm the first day.
2nd day driving a Nissin Patrol escorting a D4 cutting a fire break in even steeper country. Finally found a slope I was too scared to take the Nissin down. Might have got down OK, but would have needed the dozer to snig us back up. The dozer ended up trampling the fire out in that gully with his tracks, crazy dangerous. Seemed odd to be so isolated, but so high that up on the ridges we had phone and internet connection. Even funnier we could look across a valley to where people used to pay to drive the same sort of tracks at Landcruiser Mtn Park.

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obisteve
1 year ago

After the barbeque

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obisteve
1 year ago

Winter is coming, nights down to around 7°. My bread is taking about 50% longer to rise. Still working out OK though. I could add more yeast of course.

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Soapbox2627
1 year ago

looks good ObiSteve, I wonder what bread done on charcoal would be like

obisteve
1 year ago

I've heard of old time drovers cooking damper directly in the coals and breaking the ashy crust off to eat it but I've not tried. I have an old drovers Bedourie style camp oven, sheet steel rather than cast iron, that fits neatly in my old leather saddlebags. Cook damper in it while travelling, or a sourdough loaf if staying put for a couple of days.
I like to eat tasty bread with some texture and nutrition and that can be hard to find.
Got into baking bread when the bakery in Kenilworth changed hands, stopped baking bread and became a doughnut shop. It's making more money than ever but not from me.
Been a customer since 1982, the milk tanker used to drop off two 1 kg German style multigrain loaves each week in my mailbox and I'd ride the Norton into town once a month to write them a cheque and thank them.
With fermentation, whether baking bread, brewing beer or making stuff like sourkraut, with some practice and care you can make something better than most of the commercial product.
Oz has some of the best wheat produced in the world, but some of the worst bread.

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tussuck
1 year ago

Oddly enough we are spoilt for choices where I live in Melbourne (hippy/tree hugger central). Every 2nd shop/cafe seems to sell artesian breads among other things.

obisteve
1 year ago

Well sure, Maleny too, but it's white sliced country west of the Great Divide. You can starve to death on that shit.
And people flogging "artisan" bread will charge about ten bucks a loaf, maybe more in Melbourne. My flour mixes price out at $2.50 a loaf, bake during the day when the panels are exporting to the grid and the power costs nothing. I generally make either a sour dough rye or a German style multigrain.

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Soapbox2627
1 year ago

setting up a wings and ribs cooker, just need the grate for a fire to sit on and it will be game on

bloodog
1 year ago

Quoting Soapbox2627 on 15 Apr 2023 09:17 AM
setting up a wings and ribs cooker, just need the grate for a fire to sit on and it will be game on

I coming from thinking of coming Port Douglas

bloodog
1 year ago

Quoting Soapbox2627 on 15 Apr 2023 09:17 AM
setting up a wings and ribs cooker, just need the grate for a fire to sit on and it will be game on

Quoting bloodog on 15 Apr 2023 11:18 AM
I coming from thinking of coming Port Douglas

Oops you got me all mixed up carnt Evan tex correct

bloodog
1 year ago

Quoting Soapbox2627 on 15 Apr 2023 09:17 AM
setting up a wings and ribs cooker, just need the grate for a fire to sit on and it will be game on

Quoting bloodog on 15 Apr 2023 11:18 AM
I coming from thinking of coming Port Douglas

Quoting bloodog on 15 Apr 2023 11:19 AM
Oops you got me all mixed up carnt Evan tex correct

My apologies was a bit out of it when last posted
Ok ok will give my self an upercut

Soapbox2627
1 year ago

a coat of paint today, pot belly stove paint, final coat tomorrow, then a set of wheels, thing weighs 100kgs, the legs will be done with normal paint

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Grease Monkey
1 year ago

Dogs wondering when the good smells are gunna start

Soapbox2627
1 year ago

Quoting Grease Monkey on 30 Apr 2023 10:58 AM
Dogs wondering when the good smells are gunna start

dogs get it so much they are like cats in a mouse plague

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Grease Monkey
1 year ago

Quoting Grease Monkey on 30 Apr 2023 10:58 AM
Dogs wondering when the good smells are gunna start

Quoting Soapbox2627 on 01 May 2023 01:01 AM
dogs get it so much they are like cats in a mouse plague

Haha, fat as mud

obisteve
1 year ago

The brigade helped a land owner burn a heap on a vacant block in the next town. Must have been about 10 tonne of wood. He was the sort of bloke who would rather torch the pile rather than let his neighbours in to cut it for firewood.
The Rhodes grass around it was so green it hadn't scorched and burnt 4 hours after we lit up. The logs will burn for a couple of days I think.

Starting to get some real heat in it now

evo94
1 year ago

Quoting obisteve on 05 May 2023 10:05 AMedited: 05 May 2023 10:11 AM
The brigade helped a land owner burn a heap on a vacant block in the next town. Must have been about 10 tonne of wood. He was the sort of bloke who would rather torch the pile rather than let his neighbours in to cut it for firewood.
The Rhodes grass around it was so green it hadn't scorched and burnt 4 hours after we lit up. The logs will burn for a couple of days I think.

Starting to get some real heat in it now

such a waste...could have made use of it coupla nights ago...

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