Kind of a less serious post but still very important: how to properly smoke a brisket.
This is a great traditional southern method to smoking brisket that has yielded great results for me:
https://girlscangrill.com/recipe/smoked-brisket/
One modification I make however, is that I wet brine my brisket in a turkey oven bag instead of injecting. Boil approximately enough water to fill the bag with the brisket plus about 2 cups salts and 3 cups brown sugar. The water with the salt and sugar must be boiled in order to form a proper solution, then cooled with ice to ensure that you don't end up boiling the brisket
After it cools, place the brisket in an oven bag, fill bag with brine, then place a cooler with ice overnight (or throughout the day if you're planning an overnight smoke).
My personal rub consists of smoked paprika, salt, roasted garlic powder, onion powder, and pepper. I prefer a strong smoke flavor and use a pellet smoker with hickory. An automatic pellet smoker is viewed by some as "cheating", but on weekends I want to do other projects besides just being a kitchen bitch so it's very convenient. However a traditional smoker works fine.
The most essential elements here are preparation, patience, and being aware of your temperatures.
You must take the time to pat dry the brisket completely so the rub sticks, you must always monitor temperature and apply the "texas crutch" at the proper time, and you MUST let the meat rest wrapped in the empty cooler for 2-3 hours MINIMUM.
Brisket is very easy to do, but if you go under temp your meat will be tough. Over temp, and you're essentially just cooking a greasy pot roast. Your meat must pass the "fold test" to be consider authentic smoked brisket. Its cross grain slices must be able to fold in half if you hold it up without breaking. That's how you know you've nailed the moisture without over cooking.
This is a great traditional southern method to smoking brisket that has yielded great results for me:
https://girlscangrill.com/recipe/smoked-brisket/
One modification I make however, is that I wet brine my brisket in a turkey oven bag instead of injecting. Boil approximately enough water to fill the bag with the brisket plus about 2 cups salts and 3 cups brown sugar. The water with the salt and sugar must be boiled in order to form a proper solution, then cooled with ice to ensure that you don't end up boiling the brisket
After it cools, place the brisket in an oven bag, fill bag with brine, then place a cooler with ice overnight (or throughout the day if you're planning an overnight smoke).
My personal rub consists of smoked paprika, salt, roasted garlic powder, onion powder, and pepper. I prefer a strong smoke flavor and use a pellet smoker with hickory. An automatic pellet smoker is viewed by some as "cheating", but on weekends I want to do other projects besides just being a kitchen bitch so it's very convenient. However a traditional smoker works fine.
The most essential elements here are preparation, patience, and being aware of your temperatures.
You must take the time to pat dry the brisket completely so the rub sticks, you must always monitor temperature and apply the "texas crutch" at the proper time, and you MUST let the meat rest wrapped in the empty cooler for 2-3 hours MINIMUM.
Brisket is very easy to do, but if you go under temp your meat will be tough. Over temp, and you're essentially just cooking a greasy pot roast. Your meat must pass the "fold test" to be consider authentic smoked brisket. Its cross grain slices must be able to fold in half if you hold it up without breaking. That's how you know you've nailed the moisture without over cooking.
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Kind of a less serious post but still very important: how to properly smoke a brisket. This is a great traditional southern method to smoking brisket that has yielded great results for me: https://girlscangrill.com/recipe/smoked-brisket/ One modification…
Also one thing to consider is smoking multiple briskets at once and vacuum sealing them for the freezer. They won't be quite as good reheated, but will still be damn better than just about anything else you can buy brisket wise.
The fat can be used for tallow and still taste great, but honestly I'm not the biggest fan of deep frying and usually discard it. However I understand you can make excellent French fries with it.
I'm going to conduct an experiment with flash freezing pre-prepared meals in a dry ice / salt water brine in order to preserve flavor, and I'll keep you all updated on the results when I do this.
The fat can be used for tallow and still taste great, but honestly I'm not the biggest fan of deep frying and usually discard it. However I understand you can make excellent French fries with it.
I'm going to conduct an experiment with flash freezing pre-prepared meals in a dry ice / salt water brine in order to preserve flavor, and I'll keep you all updated on the results when I do this.
Great care must be taken when foraging wild plants. I included an edible insect guide as well, but that should be your last ditch strategy to get calories. No strong men were ever made by eating bugs.
This fella rates different chainsaw sharpening methods as well. His videos can be very useful as his tests are unbiased
https://youtu.be/BzmKwxfqjjQ
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The Federal Reserve and the scamdemic
My purpose here is to provide the reader with a logical argument that underscores the reason for getting your preps in order. Remember last year when there was no toilet paper to buy? What if there were no dollars to buy anything with? Read on dear reader....
In 1908 the US had a recession. The Federal government had to borrow money from JP Morgan to stay solvent. In 1912, Paul Warburg, JP Morgan, Nelson Alridge and other big players of the day met on Jekyll Island to create a "reserve bank". This was presented to the US congress and passed over Christmas recess in 1913. The public was told it would make runs on banks impossible. In actuality what it did was act as a safety net that allowed banks to make more and more risky loans.
The Fed does two things: 1) it is the reserve bank for other banks. Banks loan out your deposits and therefore do not have 100% of deposited cash on hand. If there is a run on the bank, the Fed will loan the bank the money needed to cover the run, thus keeping the bank solvent. 2)The Fed loans money to the US federal government on demand in exchange for the future value of Treasury bonds.
A side note about money and the Federal government. The US Constituion says that the congress is responsible for weights and measures. This is so that congress is responsible for the weight of precious metals and those weights are standardized. The government can mint coin but it cannot print money. It can however borrow money. This is where the Fed comes in.
From 1914 onward, the US government began to borrow money from the fed. With the outbreak of WW1, there was a need for money and the fed was happy to provide it against the future value of T bonds. The roaring 20's happened. Banks were enabled by the safety net of the fed made risky investments and loans. Then the stock market collapsed. The fed was supposed to prevent these problems and it seems to have caused the largest economic depression to that date.
20 years after 1913 and 4 years into the Great Depression, the first Treasury bonds were coming due. On May 1 1933, FDR issued executive order 6102 that required all gold bulion be surrendered to the federal government. He changed the value of gold from $20/oz to $35/oz and had a bank holiday. Since that time we have been compelled to use federal reserve notes. The federal government is painted into a corner where it must continually borrow fed notes against the future value of... wait for it.... the same federal reserve notes. n=n+1. The trap that was set in 1913 was sprung in 1933.
Just as Coolage was eager to get us involved in WW1, FDR was eager to get us into WW2. We were a late entrant into ww2 but we sold a lot of munitions and supplies to Europe. At the end of WW2 we (the federal reserve ) had pracitcally all the gold from 1st world countries at Ft Knox.
In 1947 there was an international meeting in Bretton Woods NH in which it was decided that the US Dollar (aka federal reserve notes) would be the currency used in all international transactions. This is why oil is traded in dollars to this day.
At this point, all of europe is de facto on the federal reserve system. They never got their gold back and must use their own currencies internally as fiat currency. The US has an advantage because it is the first "customer" of the federal reserve and can print the money it needs internationally. No other country can do that.
Through the next 60 years all other countries have come into the federal reserve system. It is a ponzi scheme where each player is beholden to the players ahead of them and seeks to profit from new entrants. The problem we face today is that there are no new entrants. North Korean is the only outlyer and they, frankly, won't bring much with them if they did join the party.
My purpose here is to provide the reader with a logical argument that underscores the reason for getting your preps in order. Remember last year when there was no toilet paper to buy? What if there were no dollars to buy anything with? Read on dear reader....
In 1908 the US had a recession. The Federal government had to borrow money from JP Morgan to stay solvent. In 1912, Paul Warburg, JP Morgan, Nelson Alridge and other big players of the day met on Jekyll Island to create a "reserve bank". This was presented to the US congress and passed over Christmas recess in 1913. The public was told it would make runs on banks impossible. In actuality what it did was act as a safety net that allowed banks to make more and more risky loans.
The Fed does two things: 1) it is the reserve bank for other banks. Banks loan out your deposits and therefore do not have 100% of deposited cash on hand. If there is a run on the bank, the Fed will loan the bank the money needed to cover the run, thus keeping the bank solvent. 2)The Fed loans money to the US federal government on demand in exchange for the future value of Treasury bonds.
A side note about money and the Federal government. The US Constituion says that the congress is responsible for weights and measures. This is so that congress is responsible for the weight of precious metals and those weights are standardized. The government can mint coin but it cannot print money. It can however borrow money. This is where the Fed comes in.
From 1914 onward, the US government began to borrow money from the fed. With the outbreak of WW1, there was a need for money and the fed was happy to provide it against the future value of T bonds. The roaring 20's happened. Banks were enabled by the safety net of the fed made risky investments and loans. Then the stock market collapsed. The fed was supposed to prevent these problems and it seems to have caused the largest economic depression to that date.
20 years after 1913 and 4 years into the Great Depression, the first Treasury bonds were coming due. On May 1 1933, FDR issued executive order 6102 that required all gold bulion be surrendered to the federal government. He changed the value of gold from $20/oz to $35/oz and had a bank holiday. Since that time we have been compelled to use federal reserve notes. The federal government is painted into a corner where it must continually borrow fed notes against the future value of... wait for it.... the same federal reserve notes. n=n+1. The trap that was set in 1913 was sprung in 1933.
Just as Coolage was eager to get us involved in WW1, FDR was eager to get us into WW2. We were a late entrant into ww2 but we sold a lot of munitions and supplies to Europe. At the end of WW2 we (the federal reserve ) had pracitcally all the gold from 1st world countries at Ft Knox.
In 1947 there was an international meeting in Bretton Woods NH in which it was decided that the US Dollar (aka federal reserve notes) would be the currency used in all international transactions. This is why oil is traded in dollars to this day.
At this point, all of europe is de facto on the federal reserve system. They never got their gold back and must use their own currencies internally as fiat currency. The US has an advantage because it is the first "customer" of the federal reserve and can print the money it needs internationally. No other country can do that.
Through the next 60 years all other countries have come into the federal reserve system. It is a ponzi scheme where each player is beholden to the players ahead of them and seeks to profit from new entrants. The problem we face today is that there are no new entrants. North Korean is the only outlyer and they, frankly, won't bring much with them if they did join the party.
There are two things that make a ponzi scheme sucessful. You must keep existing players under you in the game and there must always be new players. If you wonder why the US is the police force of the world, wonder no longer. All these wars we fight are not for the reasons the public is told. They are really no different that mob enforcement tactics. If you stop playing the game, your leader's airplan will fall out of the sky or he'll be assassinated. Or there will be a coup in your country. If you leader is savvy enough to avoid all those things, we'll just tell the public what a tyrant he is and send the military over to kick his ass. Then we will install a leader who is more favorable to our interests. Dear reader, look back at historical events since WW2 from the perspective of keeping countries in line. GWB said "they hate us for our freedoms". No, they hate us because we keep screwing around in their countries. Research Iran in 1953. I'm not on the side of the Persians but I ask that you look at events through their eyes.
So what happens when the ponzi scheme is up? What happens when you run out of new entrants and your n=n+1 scheme starts to crash? The very last thing they want is for the public to realize the actual cause of the financial collapse that's coming.
It is my belief that those holding the bag have come up with a plan to deflect the public's anger while the collapse is happening.... What if we could cause the economy to collapse for some other reason? What if we over-hyped the common flu and scared everyone in to staying home and stopping commerce? That would certainly weaken the economy. What if we were able to convince the public that the cessation of economic activity was the cause instead of the scape goat? What other countries who were also high up on the Federal Reserve pryamid scheme were also keenly interested in diffusing their citizens' anger?
It was said that after the Titantic struck the iceberg, the band played lively music to keep the passengers from panicing. In our case I beleive the money system struck an iceburg in 1933 and we've changed the captains a few times. The water is approching the port hole windows and we have just told the passengers to go back to their cabins lest something bad happen. They are scared to death and voluntarily quarantine in their cabins.
Let's put the pieces together... The european economy has ben on the brink for years with Germany being the only strong producer and Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain (PIGS) weighing them down. Combine that with the aforementioned n=n+1 federal reserve problem and you'll have Merkle and Macron looking for a scape goat.
It is my opinion that these variants of the flu will contine to be hyped and the shutdowns will continue until the economy is dead. Any logical person must see the fact that the federal reserve system cannot continue indefinitely. It will crash at some point and I belive that point is very soon indeed. I think that what we are seeing globally is a lot of governments trying to slowly control the collapse of their currencies without alarming the "passengers".
Anyone got any commets? Did I miss anything? Did I misrepresent anything? Is this plausible to you?
So what happens when the ponzi scheme is up? What happens when you run out of new entrants and your n=n+1 scheme starts to crash? The very last thing they want is for the public to realize the actual cause of the financial collapse that's coming.
It is my belief that those holding the bag have come up with a plan to deflect the public's anger while the collapse is happening.... What if we could cause the economy to collapse for some other reason? What if we over-hyped the common flu and scared everyone in to staying home and stopping commerce? That would certainly weaken the economy. What if we were able to convince the public that the cessation of economic activity was the cause instead of the scape goat? What other countries who were also high up on the Federal Reserve pryamid scheme were also keenly interested in diffusing their citizens' anger?
It was said that after the Titantic struck the iceberg, the band played lively music to keep the passengers from panicing. In our case I beleive the money system struck an iceburg in 1933 and we've changed the captains a few times. The water is approching the port hole windows and we have just told the passengers to go back to their cabins lest something bad happen. They are scared to death and voluntarily quarantine in their cabins.
Let's put the pieces together... The european economy has ben on the brink for years with Germany being the only strong producer and Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain (PIGS) weighing them down. Combine that with the aforementioned n=n+1 federal reserve problem and you'll have Merkle and Macron looking for a scape goat.
It is my opinion that these variants of the flu will contine to be hyped and the shutdowns will continue until the economy is dead. Any logical person must see the fact that the federal reserve system cannot continue indefinitely. It will crash at some point and I belive that point is very soon indeed. I think that what we are seeing globally is a lot of governments trying to slowly control the collapse of their currencies without alarming the "passengers".
Anyone got any commets? Did I miss anything? Did I misrepresent anything? Is this plausible to you?
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What is a root cellar?
A root cellar is a structure, preferably below grade, used to store perishable goods as a natural refrigeration. A good root cellar will be able to stay 40°F cooler than the outside air.
What do you need for a good root cellar?
-Ventilation
-Earthen Shelter
-Darkness
-Humidity
The most efficient way to dig a root cellar is to put it below grade, using the earth already available and compacted. Sometimes digging can be very difficult due to rocks or quite literally, roots. There are machines you can use to break everything up. But what if that isn't an option?
A root cellar is a structure, preferably below grade, used to store perishable goods as a natural refrigeration. A good root cellar will be able to stay 40°F cooler than the outside air.
What do you need for a good root cellar?
-Ventilation
-Earthen Shelter
-Darkness
-Humidity
The most efficient way to dig a root cellar is to put it below grade, using the earth already available and compacted. Sometimes digging can be very difficult due to rocks or quite literally, roots. There are machines you can use to break everything up. But what if that isn't an option?
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In digging and mining, blasting is used to quickly break up impassible rock and even root systems occasionally. Blasting is always a last resort and should only be handled by experts. This channel will not be liable for any improper handling. Always check local laws before attempting any blasting.