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Grilling Smackdown: Lump Charcoal vs. Briquettes

@bbqchef53: I have smoked a brisket using briquettes on more than one occasion. Turned out perfectly every time.

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Classic Ice Cream Sandwich Cookies

This is super helpful -- the shortening-for-butter advice is something I did not know. Thank you! I have the feeling the actual ice cream sandwich cookies are probably only achievable with industrial chemicals and tools -- and besides, I can always get one of those for 99 cents if I have a craving. :)

I'll experiment with some different things and report back...

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Classic Ice Cream Sandwich Cookies

Nope -- nothing good in the included recipies. These aren't quite what I'm looking for (saw the Emeril recipe earlier) -- I want to know how to make this.

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Grilling Smackdown: Lump Charcoal vs. Briquettes

I have to speak up for briquettes -- I have found lump to be a pain in the butt. Half the bag falls right through the chimney because the pieces are tiny. It burns out MUCH faster. And it is extremely inconsistent.

Briquettes are hot enough (and you can always pile them up if you need more heat) and provide much more consistent results.

I've never noticed any chemical smell or taste on my food cooked over briquettes. I must have one of them unrefined palates, too. *cough cough*

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Grilling Smackdown: Lump Charcoal vs. Briquettes

@bbqchef53: I have smoked a brisket using briquettes on more than one occasion. Turned out perfectly every time.

From Talk

Classic Ice Cream Sandwich Cookies

This is super helpful -- the shortening-for-butter advice is something I did not know. Thank you! I have the feeling the actual ice cream sandwich cookies are probably only achievable with industrial chemicals and tools -- and besides, I can always get one of those for 99 cents if I have a craving. :)

I'll experiment with some different things and report back...

From Talk

Classic Ice Cream Sandwich Cookies

Nope -- nothing good in the included recipies. These aren't quite what I'm looking for (saw the Emeril recipe earlier) -- I want to know how to make this.

From Serious Eats

Grilling Smackdown: Lump Charcoal vs. Briquettes

I have to speak up for briquettes -- I have found lump to be a pain in the butt. Half the bag falls right through the chimney because the pieces are tiny. It burns out MUCH faster. And it is extremely inconsistent.

Briquettes are hot enough (and you can always pile them up if you need more heat) and provide much more consistent results.

I've never noticed any chemical smell or taste on my food cooked over briquettes. I must have one of them unrefined palates, too. *cough cough*

From Recipes

The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Sigh... why does no one get the true secret to a perfect grilled cheese sandwich? The trick is this. Butter ALL FOUR SIDES of two pieces of bread. Then put the two pieces of bread in the pan until the pan-sides are crisp.

Then, flip both slices of bread over and put the cheese on top of one of the slices THAT WAS JUST COOKED. Then put the OTHER cooked side on top of the cheese. Cook sandwich as you normally would.

By putting the cheese between two HOT sides of bread instead of between cold sides, the cheese is perfectly melted by the time the bread is crisp on the outside.

Two advantages -- you don't have to wait so long or constantly check to see if you are burning the bread AND you get even more of the delicious crispy crunch, which is the true joy of a grilled cheese sandwich.

From A Hamburger Today

Best Three Seconds: Watching a Jucy Lucy Ooze Cheese

Definitely disgusting. It actually made me a little nauseated.

That said, I'd still eat the thing. Just don't want to watch videos of it.

From Serious Eats

Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: A Year of Chocolate

Same as turkey -- dark.

But pumpkinkingdom: darker the better? Does that mean you sit around eating 100%, unsweetened? Grody to the max.

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Secrets to Good Gravy?

For stock, I use a good chicken stock (Pacific or KB, as mentioned above) that I have stewed the turkey neck in to give it more flavor.

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Win Your Thanksgiving Turkey!

Same answer as last time. Where is my free turkey!? I only have one so far. And it's only 18 pounds. To feed 6 people. Uh, OK, maybe I don't need another one.

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Win Your Thanksgiving Turkey!

This question is downright cruel. Why would you make me choose?

Fine. Stuffing. Are you happy now? ARE YOU?

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Win Your Thanksgiving Turkey!

gage: Easiest bet is probably one of the Jennie-O freezer-to-oven turkeys -- there's a post about them on the front page. But brining and roasting (the most popular choice here) is very easy, too. You can find lots of recipes online, but essentially you just soak the bird in salty and sugary water for a day or two and then put it in a roasting pan and stick it in the oven.

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Win Your Thanksgiving Turkey!

First, I'll give it a good talking to. "Turkey," I'll say, "now I don't like you, and you don't like me, but we have a job to do. And that job involves one of us soaking the other one in brine and roasting him in the oven until he's crispy on the outside and moist on the inside. And I'm afraid that sitting in brine makes my fingers pruney, so you're shit out of luck."

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Win Your Thanksgiving Turkey!

I save them in case there is a sick turkey around who needs a transplant.

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Win Your Thanksgiving Turkey!

The cavity isn't big enough to make enough stuffing. I stuff it, because that shit is delicious, but then make a separate batch outside the turkey too. Gotta have leftovers!!!

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Win Your Thanksgiving Turkey!

Whichever part is in my mouth. If you can't be with the meat you love, honey, love the meat you're with.

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Win Your Thanksgiving Turkey!

The day after Thanksgiving is my favorite food day of the year. I bake a loaf of bread, heat up turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, and stuffing, and put that on a sandwich with mayo and cranberry sauce. Best thing ever.

Also, my wife makes a ridiculously delicious turkey soup.

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Win Your Thanksgiving Turkey!

I like my turkey like I like my ... uh, chocolate. Dark.

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Win Your Thanksgiving Turkey!

Diggity diggity dark. Save the white meat for turkey soup and turkey salad sandwiches.

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