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The Warrior said:
How does one go from the mighty chicken, to the super biscuit whisperer anywhos? There must have been a life altering event.
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That was a Busse chicken. That connection faded. 'Nuff said there, methinks.
 
james terrio said:
I generally like Bourdain, although sometimes I think he's a pretentious jerk. I reckon that depends a lot on the people he's with at any given time. He's done shows in "heartland" and "ghetto" settings where he was super down-to-earth, and shows in hoity-toity trendy-ass big-city spots where it costs $300 for a highly-decorated plate of basically nothing, and he sucked up so much it made me want to puke. :confused:
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I don't have television now, and haven't watched him in a few years, but he used to do a show where he travelled around the world eating (and learning to cook) local "cuisine". I don't really care about all the high $$$ places he's visited - he sat down with a Vietnamese family out in the jungle and ate a family meal with them that consisted (as the main course) a duck that they had packed a mud coating onto, feathers and all, then roasted in a bed of coals. But he was game, sitting in the dirt, peeling off the hardened mud and feathers because this family was poor and he was their respected guest, and he seemed genuinely honored and absolutely human. I have nothing but respect for him regardless of the other times when I thought he could lose the New York attitude.

That was probably 10 years ago, so.....

I used to like Good Eats. Science and food.....plus bacon and some dumb humor. Luckily, I am also a celebrity chef.....in my own home. I get to eat all the food I can make. If I time it right......

@bigghoss: My 5 is also stamped (on the ricasso) and smooth coated. Maybe they really don't sell that well. My 7 was the same, but it was an older version. The 5 I got a year and a half ago at the Northeast Gathering.
 
james terrio said:
but everybody eats, and many of them cook...

;)
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quoted for truth.
I make as many paring knives as anything else combined except birudashi, and those are arguably about food.
Not that my numbers are... even a drop in a drop in the bucket. I'm headed for the kitchen too. And the nice thing is that you get to use them FREQUENTLY. Very cool.
 
granitestateofmind said:
I don't have television now, and haven't watched him in a few years, but he used to do a show where he travelled around the world eating (and learning to cook) local "cuisine". I don't really care about all the high $$$ places he's visited - he sat down with a Vietnamese family out in the jungle and ate a family meal with them that consisted (as the main course) a duck that they had packed a mud coating onto, feathers and all, then roasted in a bed of coals. But he was game, sitting in the dirt, peeling off the hardened mud and feathers because this family was poor and he was their respected guest, and he seemed genuinely honored and absolutely human. I have nothing but respect for him regardless of the other times when I thought he could lose the New York attitude.
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That's exactly what I'm sayin'... how he deals with it just depends upon where he is. He's welcome in my world anytime. :thumbup:

Guyon said:
That was a Busse chicken. That connection faded. 'Nuff said there, methinks.
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I don't know anything about Busse chickens, only Busse shrimps.

What kinda chicken was this?

[video=youtube;bQSYHhuinoE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQSYHhuinoE[/video]

:D
 
granitestateofmind said:
I don't have television now, and haven't watched him in a few years, but he used to do a show where he travelled around the world eating (and learning to cook) local "cuisine". I don't really care about all the high $$$ places he's visited - he sat down with a Vietnamese family out in the jungle and ate a family meal with them that consisted (as the main course) a duck that they had packed a mud coating onto, feathers and all, then roasted in a bed of coals. But he was game, sitting in the dirt, peeling off the hardened mud and feathers because this family was poor and he was their respected guest, and he seemed genuinely honored and absolutely human. I have nothing but respect for him regardless of the other times when I thought he could lose the New York attitude.
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When my dad was over seas in Vietnam he was invited to eat dinner with a family, which he jumped at, according to him anything was better than c rations. He told me they once got a carton of them marked 1944

Anyways, he said they took him to a local market to get the food and they selected a skinned monkey that was hanging at one of the stands. He swears it looked just like a baby and it was all he could do to hold it down, but he ate everything tey gave hime because it was their home and their culture
 
james terrio said:
Fer realz tho? You got his contact info? Thanks, man! :p

Call me a greedy sell-out whore if you want, but I'd give my left nut to see Bourdain or even Rachel Ray use one of my kitchen knives on TV. The sheer numbers involved are mind-boggling. I truly love using and making camp/combat/survival/fighting knives; that's what got me into this whole sordid mess in the first place, nearly 30 years ago.

But... I got bills to pay. And chef's knives are every bit as fun and challenging to make. :thumbup:

All those knife magazines and forums and TV/internet survival-expert-goofballs notwithstanding... relatively few people go camping/hunting/survivaling/tacticalling, or collect high-dollar knives... but everybody eats, and many of them cook...

;)
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We go way back to my days working at the cub scout winter carnival. I showed him how to make s' mores to sell at our booth.

Guyon said:
bigghoss, if I've confused you, I was just riffing on your mod jokes.
For a bit there, my username looked like a normal Registered User. Then, the slant kicked in.
And lumbago is what old folks call lower back pain.

If none of it makes sense, just blame Murph. :p



Biscuit is staying. I made that biscuit. It was a lovely biscuit.
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I accept all blame.
 
Guyon said:
I could do drop biscuits in Ethan's oven, easy, but I honestly don't have Dutch oven biscuits down at all. I need to work on my game.
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Oh man.... Biscuits sound real good now. SaturatedShadow's dutch oven biscuits were good. :thumbup:

Hmmm... It does sound like I need to get the idea for a reflection oven I have rattling around in my head off to the chief engineer. Maybe Biscuit could do some whispering around the fire this Spring then.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
I think that only the Combo edge versions (model #s 2222/2226 (Kraton/leather)) are being discontinued.
I think the plain edge versions (# 2221/2225) are still gonna be around.
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That's a sigh of relief.... A quick peruse on Tomars corroborated this. Hate to see ANY models go, but I'm not a personal fan of the serrated models so I'm relieved to see I'll still have a shot at the leather Mk 1. :D
 
Jerry D. said:
Who knew that a zombie chicken foot was an effective way to eat popcorn. Haha!
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Now that you mention it, I haven't eaten popcorn at all since that weekend. Which is odd, because I used to really like popcorn.

Damn you, Psyop!!
 
I just finished my 14 mod yesterday.
Ordered a 4 tonight. I don't plan any mods just use.
 
james terrio said:
Now that you mention it, I haven't eaten popcorn at all since that weekend. Which is odd, because I used to really like popcorn.

Damn you, Psyop!!
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I like chopsticks for that. Keeps most of it in my mouth.
 
Speaking of kitchen knives (a page ago, I know):

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A 5" damascus santoku as a gift for my sister. and a granton edge nakiri for me. tiger maple scales on both.

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granitestateofmind said:
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I could be wrong, but those scales look pretty badly burnt. :(

Slow down when grinding the handles... big chunks of metal like those corbies suck up/hold a lot of heat, and they'll scorch the snot out of the material around them before you even realize what's happening. You end up with a nasty dark ring around the bolt or pin that's very deep and difficult to get rid of... don't ask me how I know.

Other than that, they look great! :)
 
The Ka-bar heavy duty warthog is a weird knife. I dont not like it, though im not in love with it either... Its different. Thick edge. Huge blade for the handle size. Like a sharp spatula LOL


I finally ordered a laser printer. A cheap Brothers model. Just black and white prints, basic laser printer. 60 bucks. Tired of writing out all these shipping labels and walking to the PO with a bunch of boxes in the cold. Be nice to print everything out and schedule a pickup LOL

I still have an old HP deskjet 3052a 3 in 1 printer... But i got it for under 30 bucks years ago, and to replace the ink in it will cost me around 30 bucks.. I did that before with an inkjet printer i had before this one and still only got like 40-50 prints from it before the ink was gone again.... I thought maybe it was a fluke and bought another, different, inkjet on sale... Ink was gone in a couple days... Never again. That printer has been sitting in the closet for 2-3 years prolly, and will sit there until i throw it out. Nothing wrong with it, just needs ink... But the ink costing as much as the printer is stupid and i wont abide that nonsensery anymore.

Supposedly this brother model comes with a starter toner rated at 700 pages, and there are replacement toners that cost 30 bucks rated at 1200-2600 pages. Much better than these bargain inkjets.
 
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