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Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

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Post by nommm-nommm »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #300
afarrell wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The tragic thing about this is that it prevents people in places like the northeastern US from realising that the phenomenon of real BBQ exists. I know that until met my wife at age 23, I had never even seen actual slow-cooked collagen-has-turned-to-gelatin BBQ. This isn't an instance of the Scotsman fallacy, it is a genuine category error.

Exactly. I'm originally from Texas, where they have a pretty serious idea about what the label "BBQ" means. And it absolutely does not mean grilling burgers over charcoal.

I remember on one of those restaurant impossible/kitchen nightmare type shows where the restaurant was a BBQ place.

Host: do you know BBQ actually is?

Restaurant owner: the sauce?

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Post by afarrell »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #300
afarrell wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The tragic thing about this is that it prevents people in places like the northeastern US from realising that the phenomenon of real BBQ exists. I know that until met my wife at age 23, I had never even seen actual slow-cooked collagen-has-turned-to-gelatin BBQ. This isn't an instance of the Scotsman fallacy, it is a genuine category error.

Exactly. I'm originally from Texas, where they have a pretty serious idea about what the label "BBQ" means. And it absolutely does not mean grilling burgers over charcoal.

Right. My wife grew up in Houston.

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dreamcompiler wrote: post #300
afarrell wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The tragic thing about this is that it prevents people in places like the northeastern US from realising that the phenomenon of real BBQ exists. I know that until met my wife at age 23, I had never even seen actual slow-cooked collagen-has-turned-to-gelatin BBQ. This isn't an instance of the Scotsman fallacy, it is a genuine category error.

Exactly. I'm originally from Texas, where they have a pretty serious idea about what the label "BBQ" means. And it absolutely does not mean grilling burgers over charcoal.

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Post by bfuller »

jrowley wrote: post #29
bfuller wrote: post #22

A trick I learned from Argentinian circus people, who make amazing BBQ, is let the grill heat up and then cut an onion in half to rub on the grate. It imparts a nice flavor and cleans the grill very well.

Off topic but any other tricks you learned from Argentinian circus people? Or circus people in general?

Haha yes as I am a circus person but that is a topic for another day

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Post by pcunite »

GigabyteCoin wrote: post #289
dangero wrote: post #187

This issue is actually not isolated to just barbecues and barbecue brushes although the fact that it gets into your food does make it worse. A few weeks ago my friend invited me to their high class HOA pool that had a sand beach. Wading around in about a foot of water I felt something pierce my foot when I took a step. When I pulled my foot out of the water to see what it was I could see it was a thin piece of metal…

I reached down to grab a piece of wood to place into my campfire years ago and felt this unbelievably jarring pain go through my thumb (considering how gently I had placed my hand down to grab the piece of wood, the level of pain was immense). There was a very tiny piece of something stuck in my thumb, which I was able to remove but not able to inspect very closely as it was pitch black outside and I was working with…

ouch! I could actually feel your pain.

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Post by hoodoof »

I won't use pans with non stick surface coatings either.

Over time, the non stick coating wears away, but where did it go? It tends to have gone away in the areas where the food goes.

Thus the non stick coating goes into your food.

I threw out all my non stick pans and pots and bought stainless steel and never looked back.

DuPont has us convinced we need non stick coated kitchenware but stainless steel is perfectly fine.

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Post by hoodoof »

bfuller wrote: post #22

A trick I learned from Argentinian circus people, who make amazing BBQ, is let the grill heat up and then cut an onion in half to rub on the grate. It imparts a nice flavor and cleans the grill very well.

Those carny folk have tricks us ordinary people can only dream of.

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Post by bfuller »

gumby wrote: post #280
jimktrains2 wrote: post #245

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Sounds like an insurance nightmare.

My kid went to welding summer camp when he was 8. 12 kids, one instructor; they learnt welding, brazing, soldering, other stuff I don't know the English for. Everyone had a good time and made some amazing things. Nobody suggested there was anything to worry about, but then again those parents wouldn't have signed their kids up. But I never met German parent who were particularly paranoid. German kids videos and books…

Dallas international school currently has a circus program for elementary and high school students through lone star circus.

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Post by shiggerino »

stephenr wrote: post #180
thatcat wrote: post #94

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You can use the flat edge of anything with a little leverage to pry a bottle cap off using your fingers as a fulcrum beneath the cap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm0ZkABVqjQ

if you have sturdy (ie like volkswagen/audi/bmw) keys, you can use a key in a similar fashion

Can't speak for BMW keys, but every VAG key I've had has been horribly flimsy. Don't use it to open bottles or you'll be locked out of your car.
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