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Country Style Ribs are more like pork chops than Ribs. Cooked in my Big Green Egg, a ceramic cooker. I wet brined them for 2 hours in 1 gallon of water, 1/2 pound of salt and I cup of sugar. I cook them low and slow first, bake them, with the lid down, until they get to 10° under my desired end temperature - 135°. In this case I baked them to 125°. Then I removed them from the grill and removed the top grate. I mopped them with more BBQ sauce and put them on the lower grate that's 2" for the hot coal. I try to caramelize the surface, without burning it, before the IT gets to 135°.

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Sounds good right? I'd like to start a discussion on some techniques and approaches to achieving a perfectly cooked whole deboned chicken over a dry charcoal fire. 

Recently one of our members (Wartface), has inspired me with the show pieces he's been pulling off his BBQ pit. So I wanted to get back into BBQ cooking again.  I do like smoking foods but not high heat BBQ cooking so much. 

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I just heard about David Changs chicken sandwich. He's using thighs, not breast.
Why has this not been done?
Are they same price as breast when deboned?

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I'm searching for an induction capable Windsor pan with strait walls, capacity must be a quart or less.

Seems that this shape has fallen out of fancy with American cooks. Its really too bad cause that shape will reduce a sauce like a dehydrator. I already have an AC D5 2.5Q that I love but its too large for the delicate sauces I make at home. I just bought a Mauviel MCook 5 Ply. What a POS, sold as 2.6mm thick its actually 1.7 according to my Mitutoyo micrometer.

Thanks for the feedback

MB

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The french fry thread got me excited to make fries again after some disappointing attempts using a single fry only method.  My twin daughters asked me to make them ff's for their b-days...What better occasion is there?  Very excited to try the boil, fry, freeze and fry method!  Looking for a recommendation for a french fry cutter for home use, but of restaurant quality.  Would prefer not to spend more than the ~$150-175 range for it.  Will likely mount it horizontally on a cutting board to start and would like to be able to use it occasionally for vegetables too.

Thanks!

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Hello boot camp graduates, and welcome to our private forum. Please feel free to create a new topic and post anything related to your boot camp experience including recipes, progress, questions about F-STEP, etc.

If you have any questions on how to use the forum, please post them on this thread, and I'd be happy to help.

Jacob

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My son had an old high school buddy over for dinner last night and asked if I would come over and grill some steaks for them.
Here's what I had to work with...
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I have a Roband contact grill
The elements are cast into die-cast aluminium. It hasn't been used in ages so stripped the surface and tried to re-season it.
The oil isn't even smoking, it's during brown but not black.

Is this because it's a contact grill
or
Is something not working right? Did I damage the aliminium?

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Before I have found this site I always thaught that long kneading develops gluten, which is crucial for keeping the gas bubbles in my bread. Chef Jacob says it is beter to handle the dough as little as possible, and you need the high hydration dough, and it works. The extreme example is the no knead bread technique that gives the best results in my case ( this fact seems a bit weird to me). Now Teresa Greenway, the great baker, says that actually LOW hydration helps to develop the gluten network better, so she starts with low and gradually adds more watter with each stretch and fold!

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