JimEIV
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OT: The Thread About Nothing Part 200: Where does the time go?
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Diavolo* dry rubbed flat chicken smoking with whiskey wood chips** for 2 hours, sweet/sour cucumber salad*** made and chilling in fridge, farm fresh sweet corn grilled and cut off cob with butter, salt, parmesan herb seasoning*, and shredded paremsan cheese.
There might have been a cucumber vodka tonic somewhere in there too. Will finish with a goose island belgian farmhouse ale - Sophie****.
81 degrees out, low humidity, sunny.
This is a damn fine day.
*http://www.williams-sonoma.com/prod...lian-rub-set/?pkey=crubs-brines&&crubs-brines
**http://images.shopko.com/get/w/475/h/475/164451_0000.jpg
*** 3 tbs rice wine vinegar, 1 tbs sugar, 3 tbs canola oil, 1 tbs cilantro, 1 tsp dijon mustard, 1/2 tbs salt, fresh pepper, 1/2 minced shallot - heat to dissolve, pour over 1 very thinly slided english cucumber & chill 1 hour
****http://i0.wp.com/codyuncorked.com/w...urse-pairings-goose-island.jpg?resize=500,800
There might have been a cucumber vodka tonic somewhere in there too. Will finish with a goose island belgian farmhouse ale - Sophie****.
81 degrees out, low humidity, sunny.
This is a damn fine day.
*http://www.williams-sonoma.com/prod...lian-rub-set/?pkey=crubs-brines&&crubs-brines
**http://images.shopko.com/get/w/475/h/475/164451_0000.jpg
*** 3 tbs rice wine vinegar, 1 tbs sugar, 3 tbs canola oil, 1 tbs cilantro, 1 tsp dijon mustard, 1/2 tbs salt, fresh pepper, 1/2 minced shallot - heat to dissolve, pour over 1 very thinly slided english cucumber & chill 1 hour
****http://i0.wp.com/codyuncorked.com/w...urse-pairings-goose-island.jpg?resize=500,800
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JimEIV
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Whiskey wood chips? I've never seen or heard of this before! This sounds incredible!
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I don't know if it was the rub or the wood chips or the perfect combination of both but this was by far the best chicken I've done on the smoker. I threw it on the grill skin side down for 5 min after 2.5 hours smoking and it was the perfect charred/spicy but not burnt flavor.
They cost a little more - like $6 a bag vs. $3 for regular wood chips but I'm sold and a bag will get me 6-10 smoke runs depending on how many chips I put in/how long it needs to smoke.
That Diavolo rub is fantastic if you like a little heat to a bbq rub.
JK3
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Oh man that sounds amazing. Whiskey wood chips as in wood from old whiskey barrels?
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Can anyone attest to the pros/cons of doing a six-hour drive solo? Never done it before and I'm still a paranoid young driver.
tr83
Nope, still embarassed
Pro: A sense of freedom and discovery.
Con: Bad drivers. I find that Jersey drivers are pretty good. NY, DC, and Virginia drivers are ****ing terrible. Georgia drivers all do 85.
Depends on how comfortable your seats are. I went down to Raleigh, NC in a Honda whose bucket seats were really comfortable. I got down there in 9 hours with 1 pee break.
Buy a map just in case. Have a phone charger for the car. Make sure you have a roadside emergency kit: Jack, spare tire, jumper cables, duct tape, a couple of tools, and a couple of rags. Get a good night of sleep beforehand so you don't get road hypnosis (For me, I found I-85 in Virginia is 45 miles of homogenized tree-lined straightness).
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Pros: you get where you must really want to go
Cons: rush hour, boredom, rain sucks
Tip: leave at a time you don't pass through major congestion areas between 8-9 am, 11:30-1pm or worse - 4:30-6 pm.
Beef jerky and CDs ftw.
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Once drove from Woods Hole, MA to my home...probably at the same age as yourself.
Got off the last boat of the night from Martha's Vineyard and drove straight home without stopping...it wasn't technically solo but everyone else slept and left me to the driving.
You'll be fine.
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But don't drink too much caffeine or anything, as you might have to take some pee stops on the way, which will undoubtedly slow you down.
I can do a 6 hour ride with 1 or 0 piss stops, or sometimes 2 to 3.
Emperoreddy
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Drove from NJ to Atlanta once. 12 hours.
Basically you need a long playlist and it helps if you like to drive to begin with.
Basically you need a long playlist and it helps if you like to drive to begin with.
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This reminds me. One recommendation for anyone driving south, as in passing through the outskirts of Baltimore and DC. Traffic there is a nightmare between the hours of 6:00-10:00 AM and 4:00-7:00 PM.
And I mean at any given point over that 60 to maybe even 80-90 mile stretch between the northern end of Virginia and about 20-30 miles north of Baltimore. It can be absolutely brutal.
Aside from that though, there's no huge traffic problems after the DC/Baltimore area on I-95. Only if there's construction or an accident. I think as far as congestion goes, from shortly after the Maryland/Virginia border, I barely hit any traffic the couple times I drove from Bergen County all the way down to St Petersburg area of Florida, where I live now. You start to hit some congestion traffic again in Tampa.
I don't do the drive anymore though, I haven't in 5 years when I moved here. I had 2 other friends come with me. Needed 3 drivers, including myself. To take down my 2 vehicles and the moving truck I had rented. And they flew back. I was only supposed to take 16-17 hours or so, but it took like 20-21, with stops to get gas. We didn't sit down to eat anywhere, just drive thru stuff. It would have took too long to do anything else. Left at 5:00 AM and must have arrived at 2:00 AM the next morning. We missed most of the DC traffic, but still hit a little bit of it.
Biggest help on long drives for me has always been podcasts or audio books. Music is nice for the first couple hours while you still have the sens of being wild and free on the open road (or in my case are stuck in Atlanta traffic for 3 hours), but after a while of driving down monotonous interstates lined with the same damn trees or flat areas with nothing to look at, I get put to sleep without something to pay more attention to.
If you do start to nod off, pull over and sleep immediately. I made the mistake of thinking I could power through when I was falling asleep once and the next thing I knew I was narrowly missing hitting a tree at 90 MPH. It's way less dangerous to stop for 30 minutes.
If you do start to nod off, pull over and sleep immediately. I made the mistake of thinking I could power through when I was falling asleep once and the next thing I knew I was narrowly missing hitting a tree at 90 MPH. It's way less dangerous to stop for 30 minutes.
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My biggest problems were coffee, social work smoking and casual drinking.
I gave up most of my coffee drinking. I have been drinking green tea with lemon or sometimes honey. I cant past my morning coffee and I know it's not ideal but each morning I have a cup of coffee and a mint Swedish Snus. General mint. I've been using snus as an emergency. It comes in a 24 portion can and in 30 days I'm on my 3rd can.
At work, especially after lunch, instead of coffee and a couple butts I've been going for a walk
I've eliminated most social drinking. My birthday was in the last 30 days and I was having fun and the snus saved the day.
I think I can get by like this but my plan is to break most of the social and physical habit then eliminate the snus with gum.
I'm just not going to smoke no matter what. Nicotine replacement/ harm reduction has been working so far and I'm satisfied with it.
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good stuff. yeah, being in the car and being at work are my two big triggers. gotta cut that out
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I grabbed some of those wood chips today. Man you can definitely smell the whiskey.
I also came across red wine barrel chips. I didn't grab any of those, but I might try some of those at some point too.
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I already know what radio station on Google Play I'm going to blast the whole time.
I'm getting excited now.
Oh, and good for you for stopping smoking. I still do it occasionally. I know I should stop. (For example, I'm probably going to smoke several cigarettes if I'm going to an all-day football tailgate at WVU. Woo.)
I'm getting excited now.
Oh, and good for you for stopping smoking. I still do it occasionally. I know I should stop. (For example, I'm probably going to smoke several cigarettes if I'm going to an all-day football tailgate at WVU. Woo.)
tr83
Nope, still embarassed
Quoted for truth. Northern VA is awful and the traffic literally crawls from DC to almost Fredricksburg (about 35 miles) the stops and goes to Richmond (another 35 miles). I just don't know why Virginians can't drive.
Talk radio or podcasts can engage your brain which is important.
Congrats! My old man smoked for 45 years before he quit. He said the first 30 days were the hardest. He went to snus for 5 years before quitting all of it 2 years ago.
Do you feel any difference? Tastes, lung capacity, susceptibility to colds?
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