In the hopes I won't be flamed alive for an ON topic post, I offer the
following:

Magic's Baby Back Smokin' Saturday

Thursday 11:45 a.m.: Removed two slabs slabs of baby backs from freezer and
left in cryovac to thaw.

Thursday 6:45 p.m.: Seasoned the two racks without removing the membrane
today - that's a sometimes yes, sometimes no, thing with me. I like 'em both
ways. Placed the racks in Food Saver bags, and vacuumed out almost but not
all of the air and put them back in the frig.Will turn them occasionally
until Saturday morning.

Would post the rub recipe, but actually I don't recall what all's in this
one: it starts with a variation on Paul Kirk's Master Barbecue Spice. To
that I add most of the Usual Suspects, and some not so frequently used,
nutmeg and clove being flavor notes I add to some of my rubs.
(Gotta get a kitchen scale and start taking notes - One o' dese days,
Alice!)

Saturday 1:00 p.m.: Removed ribs from refrigerator and prepared Hasty-Bake.
I set two fire-bricks on end on either side of the bottom of the pit, then
dropped the firebox down so that it came to rest on the bricks. Used four
more firebricks to build a wall on the fire grate and divide the pit in
half - with a space in the middle of my "wall" for the smoke to route under
as well as over the meat. (For Hasty-Bake users - of which I gather there
are precious few on this ng - this is a far better indirect smoking setup,
imo, than using the stock steel deflector panel that comes with the HB.

Added enough lump to the chimney to get a good started fire going for the
oak logs.

Saturday 1:20 p.m.: Emptied lump out of chimney and into firebox. Added oak
for base fire.

Saturday 1:57 p.m.: Base fire is perfect at 225 degrees. Back backs go on.
Top goes down.

Saturday 2:12 p.m.: Added first bach of soaked hickory chunks.Off to Home
Depot run. Shouldn't need more wood til a little after three, so things are
looking good.

Saturday 3:25 p.m.: Back from HD. Fire at 200, and about to
start dropping a little faster by the look of it. Added second batch of
soaked hickory
chunks, and decent sized piece of lump. Should be good for another hour or
so. Time for a beer.And a Partagas maduro robusto. Life is good.

Saturday 4:20 p.m.: Temp at 220. Added a little more hickory, a little more
lump. A second cold beer is in order. Life is absolutely good!

Saturday 5:27 p.m.: The Partagas extinguished, I added what should be the
last lump to the fire, and a few final slivers of the hickory. The racks are
looking excellent, smelling wonderful. Should be done in about an hour or
so. Wife is making potato salad. I love my wife!

Sarurday 6:24 p.m.: Beautiful, tender, falling off the bone baby backs.
Table set, sides ready, and nice beaujolais breathing to chase the
afternoon's occasional beers and perfectly accompany the meal.

The Qniverse is truly a swell place! Hope y'all are enjoying this day as
much as I am.

Later, amigos,
George

From: "GmagicB"

Saturday 4:20 p.m.: Temp at 220. Added a little more hickory, a little more
lump. A second cold beer is in order. Life is absolutely good!

4:20 yes, life is definitely good

WTF is a 'Hasty-Bake'? I dated a girl when I was four that used an
easy-bake to get into my heart, but I've never heard of a 'Hasty-Bake'.

El Penguini
"GmagicB" wrote in message
k.net...
In the hopes I won't be flamed alive for an ON topic post, I offer the
following:

Magic's Baby Back Smokin' Saturday

Thursday 11:45 a.m.: Removed two slabs slabs of baby backs from freezer
and
left in cryovac to thaw.

Thursday 6:45 p.m.: Seasoned the two racks without removing the membrane
today - that's a sometimes yes, sometimes no, thing with me. I like 'em
both
ways. Placed the racks in Food Saver bags, and vacuumed out almost but not
all of the air and put them back in the frig.Will turn them occasionally
until Saturday morning.

Would post the rub recipe, but actually I don't recall what all's in this
one: it starts with a variation on Paul Kirk's Master Barbecue Spice. To
that I add most of the Usual Suspects, and some not so frequently used,
nutmeg and clove being flavor notes I add to some of my rubs.
(Gotta get a kitchen scale and start taking notes - One o' dese days,
Alice!)

Saturday 1:00 p.m.: Removed ribs from refrigerator and prepared
Hasty-Bake.
I set two fire-bricks on end on either side of the bottom of the pit, then
dropped the firebox down so that it came to rest on the bricks. Used four
more firebricks to build a wall on the fire grate and divide the pit in
half - with a space in the middle of my "wall" for the smoke to route
under
as well as over the meat. (For Hasty-Bake users - of which I gather there
are precious few on this ng - this is a far better indirect smoking setup,
imo, than using the stock steel deflector panel that comes with the HB.

Added enough lump to the chimney to get a good started fire going for the
oak logs.

Saturday 1:20 p.m.: Emptied lump out of chimney and into firebox. Added
oak
for base fire.

Saturday 1:57 p.m.: Base fire is perfect at 225 degrees. Back backs go on.
Top goes down.

Saturday 2:12 p.m.: Added first bach of soaked hickory chunks.Off to Home
Depot run. Shouldn't need more wood til a little after three, so things
are
looking good.

Saturday 3:25 p.m.: Back from HD. Fire at 200, and about to
start dropping a little faster by the look of it. Added second batch of
soaked hickory
chunks, and decent sized piece of lump. Should be good for another hour or
so. Time for a beer.And a Partagas maduro robusto. Life is good.

Saturday 4:20 p.m.: Temp at 220. Added a little more hickory, a little
more
lump. A second cold beer is in order. Life is absolutely good!

Saturday 5:27 p.m.: The Partagas extinguished, I added what should be the
last lump to the fire, and a few final slivers of the hickory. The racks
are
looking excellent, smelling wonderful. Should be done in about an hour or
so. Wife is making potato salad. I love my wife!

Sarurday 6:24 p.m.: Beautiful, tender, falling off the bone baby backs.
Table set, sides ready, and nice beaujolais breathing to chase the
afternoon's occasional beers and perfectly accompany the meal.

The Qniverse is truly a swell place! Hope y'all are enjoying this day as
much as I am.

Later, amigos,
George

El Penguini wrote:
WTF is a 'Hasty-Bake'? I dated a girl when I was four that used an
easy-bake to get into my heart, but I've never heard of a 'Hasty-Bake'.


Please don't top post.

No. I'm not singling you out.

Dave: Oh! Now it makes sense to me. Okay! No more top-posting for me!
Bob: It's annoying because it reverses the normal order of
conversation. In fact, many people ignore top-posted articles.
Dave: What's so wrong with that?
Bob: That's posting your response *before* the article you're
quoting.
Dave: People keep bugging me about "top-posting." What does that
mean?
A: Top posters.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?

Matthew

--
Thermodynamics and/or Golf for dummies: There is a game
You can't win
You can't break even
You can't get out of the game

"Matthew L. Martin" wrote in message
...
El Penguini wrote:
WTF is a 'Hasty-Bake'? I dated a girl when I was four that used an
easy-bake to get into my heart, but I've never heard of a 'Hasty-Bake'.


Please don't top post.

No. I'm not singling you out.


Rather than just being an ass, why didn't you also try to inform him of what
a hasty bake is.

http://www.hastybake.com/products.htm

-CAL

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:27:54 GMT, "cl" wrote:


"Matthew L. Martin" wrote in message
...
El Penguini wrote:
WTF is a 'Hasty-Bake'? I dated a girl when I was four that used an
easy-bake to get into my heart, but I've never heard of a 'Hasty-Bake'.


Please don't top post.

No. I'm not singling you out.


Rather than just being an ass, why didn't you also try to inform him of what
a hasty bake is.

http://www.hastybake.com/products.htm

I made a sign recently for a friend; she keeps it on her desk at work.
It says, "I'm Not Your Search Engine."

A top-poster who hijacks a thread to ask "WTF is a Hasty-Bake" is
lucky to receive only a polite request not to top post.

"How do I cook X in a Hasty-Bake?" is a question deserving of a
response. "WTF is a Hasty-Bake?" is not.

I just now pasted "hasty-bake," "hastybake," and "hastey bake" into
google and got to the site you cited. This isn't rocket surgery.

--
Kevin S. Wilson
Tech Writer at a university somewhere in Idaho
"When you can't do something completely impractical and intrinsically
useless *yourself*, you go get the Kibologists to do it for you." --J. Furr

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:27:54 GMT, "cl" wrote:


"Matthew L. Martin" wrote in message
...
El Penguini wrote:
WTF is a 'Hasty-Bake'? I dated a girl when I was four that used an
easy-bake to get into my heart, but I've never heard of a 'Hasty-Bake'.


Please don't top post.

No. I'm not singling you out.


Rather than just being an ass, why didn't you also try to inform him of what
a hasty bake is.

http://www.hastybake.com/products.htm

I made a sign recently for a friend; she keeps it on her desk at work.
It says, "I'm Not Your Search Engine."

A top-poster who hijacks a thread to ask "WTF is a Hasty-Bake" is
lucky to receive only a polite request not to top post.

"How do I cook X in a Hasty-Bake?" is a question deserving of a
response. "WTF is a Hasty-Bake?" is not.

I just now pasted "hasty-bake," "hastybake," and "hastey bake" into
google and got to the site you cited. This isn't rocket surgery.

--
Kevin S. Wilson
Tech Writer at a university somewhere in Idaho
"When you can't do something completely impractical and intrinsically
useless *yourself*, you go get the Kibologists to do it for you." --J. Furr

I'm surprised that the internet is still such a wild domain, what with you
policing it as rigorously as you are.

I'm also sure as a technical writer you have substantial built-up rage
against your inability to actually do technical things, instead of merely
write about them. Thus, rather then write about WTF a Hasty-Bake is, you
write about how to write about a Hasty-bake.

I'm sure when you screw you use a paper and pen, as well. Please write a
paragraph to yourself telling you screw off.

And this top-post goes out to you and friend with the "I'm not your search
engine" sign on her desk.

El Penguini
"Kevin S. Wilson" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:27:54 GMT, "cl" wrote:


"Matthew L. Martin" wrote in message
...
El Penguini wrote:
WTF is a 'Hasty-Bake'? I dated a girl when I was four that used an
easy-bake to get into my heart, but I've never heard of a
'Hasty-Bake'.


Please don't top post.

No. I'm not singling you out.


Rather than just being an ass, why didn't you also try to inform him of
what
a hasty bake is.

http://www.hastybake.com/products.htm

I made a sign recently for a friend; she keeps it on her desk at work.
It says, "I'm Not Your Search Engine."

A top-poster who hijacks a thread to ask "WTF is a Hasty-Bake" is
lucky to receive only a polite request not to top post.

"How do I cook X in a Hasty-Bake?" is a question deserving of a
response. "WTF is a Hasty-Bake?" is not.

I just now pasted "hasty-bake," "hastybake," and "hastey bake" into
google and got to the site you cited. This isn't rocket surgery.

--
Kevin S. Wilson
Tech Writer at a university somewhere in Idaho
"When you can't do something completely impractical and intrinsically
useless *yourself*, you go get the Kibologists to do it for you." --J.
Furr

I'm surprised that the internet is still such a wild domain, what with you
policing it as rigorously as you are.

I'm also sure as a technical writer you have substantial built-up rage
against your inability to actually do technical things, instead of merely
write about them. Thus, rather then write about WTF a Hasty-Bake is, you
write about how to write about a Hasty-bake.

I'm sure when you screw you use a paper and pen, as well. Please write a
paragraph to yourself telling you screw off.

And this top-post goes out to you and friend with the "I'm not your search
engine" sign on her desk.

El Penguini
"Kevin S. Wilson" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:27:54 GMT, "cl" wrote:


"Matthew L. Martin" wrote in message
...
El Penguini wrote:
WTF is a 'Hasty-Bake'? I dated a girl when I was four that used an
easy-bake to get into my heart, but I've never heard of a
'Hasty-Bake'.


Please don't top post.

No. I'm not singling you out.


Rather than just being an ass, why didn't you also try to inform him of
what
a hasty bake is.

http://www.hastybake.com/products.htm

I made a sign recently for a friend; she keeps it on her desk at work.
It says, "I'm Not Your Search Engine."

A top-poster who hijacks a thread to ask "WTF is a Hasty-Bake" is
lucky to receive only a polite request not to top post.

"How do I cook X in a Hasty-Bake?" is a question deserving of a
response. "WTF is a Hasty-Bake?" is not.

I just now pasted "hasty-bake," "hastybake," and "hastey bake" into
google and got to the site you cited. This isn't rocket surgery.

--
Kevin S. Wilson
Tech Writer at a university somewhere in Idaho
"When you can't do something completely impractical and intrinsically
useless *yourself*, you go get the Kibologists to do it for you." --J.
Furr

El Penguini wrote:
And this top-post goes out to you and friend with the "I'm not your
search engine" sign on her desk.

Goodbye, rude top-poster.

Jack Curry
-no patience for idiots-

Jack Curry wrote:
El Penguini wrote:
And this top-post goes out to you and friend with the "I'm not your
search engine" sign on her desk.

Goodbye, rude top-poster.

Jack Curry
-no patience for idiots-

That one has been gone for several (6? or months?).

BOB

BOB wrote:
Jack Curry wrote:
El Penguini wrote:
And this top-post goes out to you and friend with the "I'm not your
search engine" sign on her desk.

Goodbye, rude top-poster.

Jack Curry
-no patience for idiots-

That one has been gone for several (6? or months?).

BOB

that should be "(6? or more months)"
but "it's" still gone for obvious reasons

BOB

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 15:02:56 -0500, "El Penguini"
wrote:

I'm also sure as a technical writer you have substantial built-up rage
against your inability to actually do technical things, instead of merely
write about them.

You're one for three. Now say something snarky about Idaho and
academia, and you'll have been well and truly trolled by my .sig into
revealing yourself as an ignorant, provincial putz.

Thus, rather then write about WTF a Hasty-Bake is, you
write about how to write about a Hasty-bake.

You don't read so good, do you? I was writing about you being too
stupid or lazy to type "Hasty Bake" into a search engine.

I'm sure when you screw you use a paper and pen, as well. Please write a
paragraph to yourself telling you screw off.

You spend much time thinking about my sex life? That's kind of
squicky, you know what I mean?

And this top-post goes out to you and friend with the "I'm not your search
engine" sign on her desk.

An ineducable top-poster, just like most of them. No surprise here.

Hurry up and tell me to get a life now. You know you want to.

--
Kevin S. Wilson
Tech Writer at a university somewhere in Idaho
"When you can't do something completely impractical and intrinsically
useless *yourself*, you go get the Kibologists to do it for you." --J. Furr

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 15:02:56 -0500, "El Penguini"
wrote:


And this top-post goes out to you and friend with the "I'm not your search
engine" sign on her desk.

El Penguini

And this "Plonk's" for you El Asshole.
Harry
"Kevin S. Wilson" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:27:54 GMT, "cl" wrote:


"Matthew L. Martin" wrote in message
...
El Penguini wrote:

"Kevin S. Wilson" wrote in message
...

I just now pasted "hasty-bake," "hastybake," and "hastey bake" into
google and got to the site you cited. This isn't rocket surgery.


How does rocket surgery vary from rocket science?

(but you know how many really don't have a clue as to the tools of the net.
Hell, lotsa ppl think IE is the internet)

-CAL