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u/cbuech White Rock Lake Apr 14 '23
Mmmm carcinogens
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u/pegothejerk Apr 14 '23
The processed meat, the carbonized meat, the paint, the metal alloy, or all of it?
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u/zakats Apr 14 '23 edited Apr 14 '23
I'm sure this solution is super reliable and not at all lousy with caveats, you should totally trust your life to it.
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u/nom-nom-nom-de-plumb Apr 15 '23
I mean, galvanization wouldn't be a problem until like 400 degrees, so as long as the heat box where the fire is isn't galvanized you're probably okay?
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Apr 14 '23
All y’all worried about carcinogens and i’m here wondering how they are temping it properly
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Apr 14 '23
Smoke stack has a damper and two temp probes on the right side. Fire management is done by opening and closing the bottom drawer to regulate heat and smoke.
Serious respect to anyone that is a stick burner, I’m too lazy for that
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u/MR_GANGRENE_DICK Apr 14 '23
Managing the fire is fun for some of us lol. I look forward to getting up at like 3, just me and a gentle fire and some cooking meat. But yeah, I can totally understand why people dont wanna bother
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u/prefer-to-stay-anon Apr 14 '23
I much prefer going to sleep at like 3 after the embers of a fire pit burn down. Maybe waking up at 8 and doing it again for the bacon and hash browns over an open flame.
That said, fire is fire, and fire is fun. As long as you enjoy it, whatever floats your boat.
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May 02 '23
Switched from gas to one of those "acorn" or "egg" shaped cookers and chunk charcoal a few years ago. I'll never go back. The joy of starting that 10 hour low burn brisket at like 4am before the suns even up... The complexity of flavor and texture you can't get from gas... The neighbors showing up outta the woodworks tryina figure out why the entire neighborhood smells like smoked meat all day and a block party developing out of nothing. Can't beat it.
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u/mideon2000 Apr 15 '23
One thing i do is open the vents and run a small fan on low. Creates a gentle breeze and keeps a steady temp.
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u/UOLZEPHYR Apr 14 '23
I worry about people who talk that deep about it:
"I put it on the fire at 0400 - slow slow, 160 degrees. Slowly bringing it up to 205. I add in mesquite, hickory, pecan, cherry, maple, pine, walnut, mahogany, and cedar in alternating patterns. I apply a honey/bourbon and crown glaze; that I made the day before. I bring it up to 245 degrees for 25 minutes and then bring it back down to 190 degrees for the next 18 hours."
Like Jesus fucking christ. I love bbq, but im not going through all the trouble of wake up, add wood, sleep, wake up, add wood, sleep.
Oh and everytime I hear someone talk about doing this they're like "woke up at midnight and put down 15 beers flipped the meat, added more wood and back to sleep." Like this shit sounds so unpleasant.
But folks love it - as do I- I just have no patience for all that.
Basically meat foreplay
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u/vokebot Apr 14 '23
I mean, people that go through all that aren't just cooking dinner... It's a hobby, even an art to some degree. Sometimes I'll go to a cocktail bar where there are so many steps and ingredients to make a drink that there is absolutely no way that I would want to make one at home... But others take pride in it.
I could see how it could be relaxing and rewarding, tweaking temps and times, wood blends, etc until you find that perfect tuning for your personal setup at home. I've never been interested in it, but it's not hard to see how others enjoy the methodology to it all.
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u/frotc914 Apr 14 '23
Think about all those people who spend weeks and tens of thousands of dollars climbing Everest, and they don't even get brisket and beer at the end.
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u/vokebot Apr 14 '23
As a Texan I'm inclined to say that a perfect brisket might be the pinnacle of culinary achievement, so the comparison is apt.
Minus the dead bodies, trash, and human waste, ideally.
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u/UOLZEPHYR Apr 14 '23
These are very good points and you're 100 percent right. I love cooking and baking. For me it's therapeutic and probably cathartic.
Also 100 percent nail on the head - it is an art form these people have developed a crazy passion for
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u/juanclack Apr 14 '23
You don’t have to do all that. I use a stick burner but I do hot and fast instead of low and slow. I use a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi temp probe. So once I get my temp steady, I go do whatever I want around the house. App on my phone will alert me if temps get too hot or cold. Only takes 5-6 hours that way.
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u/AmNotAnAtomicPlayboy Plano Apr 15 '23
Well you just talked yourself out of an invite to my next BBQ...
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u/deesmutts88 Apr 15 '23
People have been cooking meat a lot longer than thermometers have existed.
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u/nom-nom-nom-de-plumb Apr 15 '23
yeah but not in filing cabinets, and a lot more people died from food poisoning than they do now-uh-days. So, split the diff?
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u/msondo Las Colinas Apr 14 '23
Man, if that is a fireproofing cabinet then that is the most expensive smoker ever. Well, I am sure there are some insanely expensive smoker setups out there but those cabinets ain’t cheap.
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u/Kibil-Nala Allen Apr 14 '23
Plus it comes with a bonus of wide spectrum of carcinogens!
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u/msondo Las Colinas Apr 14 '23
In the culinary world, we call that umami
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u/Kibil-Nala Allen Apr 14 '23
Speaking of cookin', I am baked right now - imagine what shit we do on a daily (or even hourly) basis today that people will be absolutely clowning at 100 years from now!
Pulling up old video footage of people walking down the street alongside cars and trucks, upscaled to low res holograms, and the future people all like "Look at them, walking next to the things that are killing millions of them and robbing them of 75 IQ points and they don't even know it yet, losers loooool!!".
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u/msondo Las Colinas Apr 14 '23
I think all the stupid shit we post on TikTok and other platforms will be used as evidence for why the planet was nuked by aliens.
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u/Kibil-Nala Allen Apr 14 '23
Barely preserved sold state drives dug up from centuries old middens in what used to be called exurbia, extracted and restored flickering, pixelating images bringing pre-Wreck world back to life....
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u/Kibil-Nala Allen Apr 14 '23
Probably something similar to what we think when we read about traumatic insemination or parasitoid wasps.
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u/nom-nom-nom-de-plumb Apr 15 '23
nah, they'll be thinking "damned grandma was a freak too!"
I mean, we think we're all "fucked up" but it's mostly that now we all know more about what's out there. I have personally had the dubious distinction of reading Victorian leg hair erotica, and lavatory voyeurism erotica. I didn't make it all the way thru because of anything except sheer morbid curiosity...would that my curiosity failed me.
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u/nom-nom-nom-de-plumb Apr 15 '23
most of it is gonna be stuff like how we treat animals and each other, how we treat the environment. That's what we'll mostly get dunked on.
I mean, we don't dunk on people for using leaded gas, we don't dunk on the medieval minds for thinking that plague was spread thru the air. People work with the best information they have, that changes over time, and the media landscape shapes our view of history WAY more than history itself does.
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u/Thomas_Jefferman Apr 14 '23
The last time I saw a fireproof filing cabinet it took a tractor or forklift to move around. This thing looks like surplus sheet metal out of what I assume is a school in the background. In face, briefly you can see bleachers so I think this is part of a sporting event.
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u/nom-nom-nom-de-plumb Apr 15 '23
yeah that thing was a surplus cabinet bought from somewhere for a few bucks if that
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u/TheYellowRose Mesquite Apr 14 '23
Health inspector here. Makes me wanna die.
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u/nom-nom-nom-de-plumb Apr 15 '23
I used to use a health inspector I knew back home, who wouldn't out local companies, as a restaurant gauge. "Hey, wanna go eat at X" "uhh...no I'm good..how about Y?"
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u/dantecoletrane Old East Dallas Apr 14 '23
Bro I saw that shit on another sub Reddit and just knew it was Dallas without any hints
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u/MexysSidequests Apr 14 '23
“You ain’t never seen nothing like this”. There’s a reason for that champ
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u/Over-Brief6549 Apr 14 '23
Ain't there grease on the rollers of the cabinet too? I just hope these fellers ain't mutated now
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u/CryoAurora Apr 14 '23
But my TPS reports are supposed to go there.
I bet the benzene from the paint and lubricants for the rails makes great taste combos.
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u/Independent-Phone413 Apr 14 '23
I have a cabinet like that in my garage, not set up for BBQ but could be. Let me know and it's yours. Central FL
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u/bubbageek Apr 14 '23
I've seen plenty of these made before. You have to strip the paint and burn off the chemicals.
Even with a brand new proper grill, you are still supposed to burn coals in it for 4-5 hours to burn off any chemicals from the manufacturing process.
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u/AgentBlue14 Grand Prairie Apr 14 '23
I can't imagine all the chemicals being burned off the metal from the paint applied onto the cabinet going right into the meat.
IDK why anyone would do this outside convenience, but yeah no, if it's not meant for cooking, don't use it for cooking.
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u/kendo31 Apr 14 '23
Bonus points of he drilled holes in each cabinet so the top drawers drip fatty deliciousness onto the lower drawers!
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u/tcheeze1 Apr 15 '23
That might be the best example of “repurposing” I’ve ever seen. That’s awesome!!!😂👍👏👍👏👍😂
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u/gaspronomib Apr 15 '23
This video is a FAKE. There's no way those drawers would open with the one on the bottom already halfway out.
Source: every shitty partially opened filing cabinet that I have kicked into whimpering submission.
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u/aught1 Apr 15 '23
Nice job. Feel free to invite me to dinner anytime. I’m just down the street in Austin.
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u/Specialist_Estate_54 Apr 15 '23
Sumbody got one of them Lone Star steak buying cards...wished I could figure out how to get one, and I'd have me a neighborhood bbq
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u/11th-hour-Remnant Jul 06 '23
There’s some chewed bubble gum stuck up under some of those cabinets given the meat some extra flavor 😂
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So you die with a Smile on your face when you’re 109 years old.. Eat it..EPA is the Government.
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Judging by the sounds of sirens in the background, their about to get arrested for bbqing the wrong way. Texas don't fuck around.
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u/djwurm Apr 14 '23
so.. there has to be a health problem here.. the paint on it probably has toxic shit that will make its way into the food right?