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[Catfan73]

During the week when I’m trying to get ready for work it’s two Starbucks Sumatra in the Keurig but on the weekend I do like to get the French press out with some freshly ground beans. It makes the best coffee in my book and if it wasn’t such a pain to clean I would use it every day.

[KSRBEvans]

During the week when I’m trying to get ready for work it’s two Starbucks Sumatra in the Keurig but on the weekend I do like to get the French press out with some freshly ground beans. It makes the best coffee in my book and if it wasn’t such a pain to clean I would use it every day.

I forgot about the Keurig! We also have a Keurig, but it's at our place in Florida. We got it for when her mother would visit us and she wanted something easy to operate. I like it for that reason, too. I'll have a Keurig while making our breakfast.

[Darrell KSR]

Only 15 a year!

I am reordering razor blades for my safety razor. Now, I do not necessarily shave everyday. I also have two electric razors. I also travel semi-frequently, and when I am away from home, I either use a disposable or bring a one blade with me.

So I really don't know how often I actually shave with a safety razor.

But I do know this. Almost 7 years ago I purchased a pack of 100. I have a couple of blades left and was reordering. So I'm using about 15 of them a year.

The blades I use are about $10 for 100, or about 10 cents each. So my razor blade usage is about $1.50 per year.

I typically use shaving oil, or a shaving cream, but they last forever, so the price for that is fairly negligible. It's probably more than the razor blades, though.

[CitizenBBN]

Darrell, you still using the Astra blades?

I was going to resurrect our old shaving thread b/c I love my old school shaving world. I use the Astra blades, have a Mercur razor, but I wanted to recommend a GREAT soap.

I'm using "Cella", which is Italian. Don't tell PETA but IMO the reason it is so good is that it's based on tallow. It's also super reasonable in the "refill" size.

Between the Mercur razor I have used for many years, and the cost of the blades and this soap, I spend almost nothing on shaving. I do use exclusively this to shave, but don't shave every single day, say 5 maybe a week, maybe 5.5, and I get about 6-7 shaves out of one blade, so 0.08 per blade, maybe 50 blades a year, plus 10 or so worth of soap a year, so I'm probably just under or around 15 a year or so, shaving most of the time with just this system.

[Darrell KSR]

Yes sir, it is still the Astra blades. I'm happy with them.

I will check out that soap. I tend to get in a hurry and use shave oil commonly, but it's a real treat for the shaving soap, and especially a good one.

[CitizenBBN]

I really like it. I put a chunk of it in a sealed container (tupperware in fact) and it lasts forever.

I liked one that I had first tried that came in a tube, but this is less expensive by far, lasts longer, and the other one the tubes tended to fail over time.

It's a stupid cheap way to shave, and a great shave.

Next I'm going to try a straight razor and strop. Even cheaper, and that risk of slitting your arteries will help wake you up, saving on coffee.

[Darrell KSR]

Lol. I like everything except the straight razor. I'm happy with the safety razor. It's close enough to cave man to suit me. I get it, though. There is that appeal. I also love working with primitive tools, though. I'm a weird combination of Luddite and tech wannabe.

[blueboss]

Kind of been on edge the last couple of days..can’t quite put my finger on it.


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[Catfan73]

You’ll want to have a can of wasp and hornet spray on hand just in case an European hornet gets in your house somehow. Those sob’s are huge.

[dan_bgblue]

I prefer to be a bit more sporting and use a bad mitten racquet.

[Darrell KSR]

Son graduated college Saturday. Headed to Ole Miss for grad school. Made him promise before he accepted that he'd wear all UK gear to Ole Miss v. Kentucky games on campus. He did.

[KSRBEvans]

Raising him right--great stuff.

[blueboss]

Son graduated college Saturday. Headed to Ole Miss for grad school. Made him promise before he accepted that he'd wear all UK gear to Ole Miss v. Kentucky games on campus. He did.

I made my daughter promise me the same thing while she got her degree in psychology from…are you sitting down? UL…she obliged. We deloused her and sent her to Loyola Chicago for her masters…same promise.


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[UKFlounder]

I have to say that i never expected to chase a coyote while mowing the grass, yet there I was today, mowing away (a riding mower) when I saw something in the woods and found a coyote. I drove closer to it and it went into tge woods, but a while later, on the other side of the yard, I came around a curve, and there he was again. It was pretty small, but light brown colored (almost like a deer) with a white throat. I looked at it trying to see what I could spot and it just walked on, occasionally glancing at me, just like a dog would. It did sort of resemble a small German Shepard with the shape of its face snd its color, but it walked with its mouth open like a friendly dog would. He really didn’t act scared of me or the lawnmower.

It turned into another section of woods and I didn’t see it again.

I knew they were around here (we occasionally hear them at night) but this was the middle of the day.

I can confirm there was no roadrunner in view

[Darrell KSR]

How many? All but one for me lol. (EDIT - no MySpace account.)

[CitizenBBN]

I have every one but AOL. I was more techie even that age, we had a compuserve account.

Flounder, just put a good varmint rifle on your mower next time and you'll be ready.

[Catfan73]

All but AOL and MySpace for me. I wasn’t even on Facebook until around 2016.

[blueboss]

All but My Space.


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[dan_bgblue]

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[blueboss]

Good morning! The sun is shinning, at least it is here, that’ll have to do.


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[KSRBEvans]

Good morning to you, sir! Sunny and 86 today, makes Mondays a lot better.

I had every one but MySpace on that list. I skipped it and went directly to FB.

[UKFlounder]

The Jaws music might help, but anyway…


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[IkeCat]

Chuck, I asked you a long, long time ago about cooking on the Big Green Egg, the only reply I got was that it cooked
the best prime rib that you had ever eaten, still true? I assumed that you knew what you were talking about, so I've been Eggin' happily ever after. Still Eggin'?

[CitizenBBN]

Chuck, I asked you a long, long time ago about cooking on the Big Green Egg, the only reply I got was that it cooked
the best prime rib that you had ever eaten, still true? I assumed that you knew what you were talking about, so I've been Eggin' happily ever after. Still Eggin'?

Sorry if I wasn't thorough enough, but I will say that at that time I had limited experience. It's a long story, I got it as a gift, but at the time had little free time, then it was inaccessible during a separation and eventual divorce. During that time I did do the prime rib on it (standing rib roast, bone in), and it was the best ever.

The secret was in fact an accident. I was so inexperienced with the Egg I couldn't get the temperature up above about 180 or so reliably, so it took FOREVER to cook it (internal temp probe in it), but b/c it was so low and slow, it was so evenly cooked to rare and was still so juicy that it was tremendous.

We were hours late for dinner but it was great.

I have subsequently gotten my house back, and been remarried in fact, and I now use the egg fairly regularly, so I'm getting better at it.

So yes I now Egg maybe a few times a month.

I have become a huge fan of "low and slow" for everything. I have the deflector iron plate for the Egg, and use it almost every time. So I get a low smoke on meats, that come to temperature very slowly.

For steaks I have gone to doing a very low smoke, then I sear them in cast iron. For other cuts you can just let them go low and then enjoy, like a rib roast.

I'm still getting the hang of it. I do use natural charcoal only, and I bought that deflector and it works great for low and slow. I'm still figuring out temp control a bit. I'm better but not an expert at it.

The seal on mine is not 100% any more, but I haven't fixed it either and it's OK.

If I were buying one I would look hard at the Komodo models, but I really like my Egg and as long as it works I won't change.

[IkeCat]

I'm on my 14th year of egging and we love it. Appreciate the advice.

[Darrell KSR]

I guess I'm showing my age. I picked up a Weber Q1200 portable grill with a stand. With my wife and I at home mostly empty nesters, it is plenty for us now. Yesterday the power went out, so before hamburgers, flank iron steaks and hot dogs go bad (can hot dogs ever really go bad?) I quickly threw them on the grill and cooked them. It held 4 burgers, 10 hot dogs and 3 flank steaks simultaneously. For a portable grill, that isn't bad. Oh, I do have the adapter hose to hook it to the 20 lb propane tanks.

I miss regular charcoal grilling. That was my favorite, by far. Egging would have been such a luxury.

[KSRBEvans]

I bought a Weber kettle grill a couple of years ago and after having it awhile, I remembered why I sold my first one. You can do a lot of things with it, and I meant to get around to doing them, but I was mainly grilling burgers and steaks, which I could do just fine on a gas grill with more convenience.

[blueboss]

I’ve been a Weber kettle guy for years… can’t see spending the $$$ to go egging… I’m cheap, I guess, plus I’ve done about everything from turkeys, deer shoulders/butts, pork shoulder/butts, ribs chops, steaks, from cows and pigs, chickens and chicken pcs/parts and eggs, shell fish, seafood, fish, bacon, bologna, brats, dogs, and burgers… lest we forget fruits and vegetables as well.

…now, having said that, if someone were to drop off an egg, I’d try using it.

…I used to go through 100/120 lbs of Kingsford a year. Now, over the last year, not so much, no one to impress, just me.

[CitizenBBN]

Boss, I got the egg as a gift. I'd be too cheap to have bought one at at that time.

The Komodo is cheaper and has a great design. The only thing special about the egg is temp control, which is about the ceramics, and Komodo has that and some improvements. If I were picking today I'd probably go that route, and they aren't insane. Egg is cheaper too thanks to the competition.

For what I do they work great, b/c I want low and slow, and ceramic is ideal for that.

I like mine a lot, but like I said it landed in my lap, and it was seriously more than a decade before I actually used it other than the few times including the accidental stumble in to a low and slow prime rib. It really was amazing, the Egg and ceramics can do really good things, but I'm still figuring it out.

The only real edge they have is even temp, which is mostly for low and slow. The benefit is they can basically do a luke warm smoke or do a real grill, so you get some flexibility. I think it's a better of both worlds of a grill and a cold smoker.

But had I not had one landed in my lap I wouldn't have it. FWIW my brother in law at the time got one too. Ran the temp to 700 for a seared steak and burned the seal off. lol.

[IkeCat]

You know you're eggin' when you open the lid and your glasses steam up and you can't see. FWIW I got mine when they were half the price they are now. It's more than paid for itself on good eats. I can't afford to go out and eat the kind of food we enjoy, unlike you high rollers, lol. That being said, at my age (75) and the prices, I would probably not replace it if it broke down. Edit to add: As I was posting I realized that our 55th wedding anniversary is coming in a coming up in a couple of weeks and my wife likes Filet Mignon and I always like Ribeye, so I found a prime whole beef tenderloin at a reasonable price. And I will saute some some vidalia onions, red, yellow and green peppers and mushrooms and little taters to go with our filets,not to mention the Philly Cheese Steaks and the kabobs we can use with the leftovers. Not bad for an avg of $6-8 a plate, not to mention the adult beverages I get to enjoy while "relaxing", huh? That's why I egg.