Strange & Funny BBQ News
Mmmm Llama patties!
Wanna grill up something a little different this summer? How about some good old fashioned llama patties. Or better yet, a double bacon llama cheese burger. Just like Quetzalcoatl used to make. If you don’t have a llama dealer in your neighborhood (the local H.E.B. is suspiciously out of llama) you can still get your fill at ExoticMeats.com.
And lemme tell you, they aren’t kidding around about exotics. Just visit their browse by animal section to find such favorites as Yak Jalapeno and Cheese Sausage, Kangaroo boneless topside fillets, and a Caribou roast. Feeding a crowd, check out the 5 lb. tub of boneless snapping turtle. Get ready for a party in the cement pond tonight, I tell you what!
And don’t forget their Father’s Day Buffalo and Ostrich Special. No, Father’s Day wouldn’t be the same without it.
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Hot Chick Stoner BBQ
No, I haven’t actually watched this DVD, but I stumbled across it the other day on Netflix and about died of laughter.
This is a guide to the art of barbequeing that you won’t want to miss! The lovely Hot Rod Honey imparts all her secrets, joined by her hot stoner friends in some meat-grilling, gun-shooting, whiskey-drinking, pot-smoking action. Honey will teach you how to perfectly prepare ribs, steaks, corn on the cob, mushrooms, and hot peppers, as well as the ins and outs of the consummate marinade and of course, meat rubs.
As hard as it is to imagine that someone made this, its even harder to imagine that there is a sequel.
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It’s gotta be the shoes…
As well all know, the one true measure of someone’s skill in any particular area is how much equipment they own. Barbecue is no exception. That’s why I can’t imagine any real barbecue master not owning a pair of these babys.
Cowboy boots or sneakers just won’t cut it these days down at the VFW hall. If you ain’t sporting a pair of these bad boys you’ll be assigned to kitchen patrol or stirring the beans.
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Building a real trash can barbecue
Too cheap to buy one of them fancy store bought Weber smokers? Got a trash can (or a neighbor with a trash can?) and a hot plate? You are all set buddy boy. Following the plans on this link you can build your own trash can barbecue for less than $50.
A few tips for my fellow Aggies who may attempt this:
- Use a metal trash can, PVC is not a good flavored smoke
- Make sure you’ve emptied the trash before you begin
- If you live near Sesame Street, check for Oscar
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Recipe: Flat Iron Steak Martini
Cooking.com and The Texas Beef Council bring us this unusual recipe. I’m not sure what to make of it. It’s a cocktail, no wait its an appetizer. Kinda scary. Somehow I don’t see cowboys sipping, er chewing, these around the campfire.
It looks kinda foo-foo, yet strangely compelling. It starts with a medium-rare flat iron steak that has been marinated in Vermouth and juniper berries. Cut into thin slices, it’s served in a martini glass and topped with olives, onions and blue cheese.
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Tailgate barbecue destroys 6 cars
The smoldering coals of a tailgate barbecue ignited a fire that destroyed six vehicles in the parking lot at Qualcomm Stadium during a Charger’s game. The blaze also damaged four other nearby vehicles.
Shortly after kickoff of the exhibition game between the Chargers and the St. Louis Rams, the hot coals of a barbecue left in front of a Ford Mustang ignited six cars parked together in the parking lot. Some cars were reduced to blackened hulks while others had only their front or back ends destroyed. The fire burned away tires, leaving cars sitting on their rims. Shattered glass lined the rows between the burnt vehicles. Fenders were melted away.
Police say whomever left the coals ignored the safe disposal areas set up to preven these types of problems. There are concrete barrels with the words “Hot Coals” emblazoned on them in red around the Qualcomm parking lot. One was located a half-dozen car lengths from the smoldering barbecue.
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A computerized barbecue for high-tech rednecks
If you think I’m a nerd for blogging about barbecue, you have to check out this excerpt from the ExtremeTech book, Geek House, published by Wiley Publishing.
In this project a couple of hardware hackers hack a barbecue pit with computer sensors and a DC fan in order to automate the 10-16 hours process of cooking a brisket. Rather than hang around the pit all night (hey, they’ve got video games to play) adjusting dampers and stroking the fire, they built a self-regulating ventilation system that maintains perfect cooking temperatures inside the pit. By controlling the fan speed they control the oxygen supply to the fire, and thus the internal temperature of the cooking chamber. All they have to do is add wood!
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QVC pushing mail order barbecue ribs
I stumbled across a segment on home shopping channel QVC the other day where the item up for sale was Corky’s BBQ Ribs. They were laying it on pretty thick, and I don’t mean the barbecue sauce. I thought this was pretty unusual fair for a company that normally sells excercise equipment and breadmakers.
They even had Corky’s “chief pitmaster” chef-type guy Robert Moye on the show doing a little demonstration and talking about how good they were. About ten times they showed how the ribs were so tender that you could pull the bone clean out. I have to admit they look pretty good. Of course I also wanted to order the gold watch and the fog-proof shaving mirror.
Pretty expensive however, considering they have to ship them to you Fedex packed in dry ice. You can order them from the QVC website or direct from Corky’s. Kinda hard to tell whos has the better deal, as QVC sells them in 5 packs of 1 lb “riblets” and Corky’s direct sells full racks.
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Barbecue under the hood
Ok guys, now who doesn’t want one of these bad boys…
Unfortunately, it’s still in the “concept” stage at this point, but I’m glad to see someone’s putting their brains to good use. I wonder if the grease could somehow be recycled back into the oil pan?
From: Gridiron Gadgets
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Beer can cure cancer?
Lately there has been a rash of reports about the carcinogens present in overcooked meat. The burning fat and char on well grilled meat may indeed pose some sort of health risk it appears.
But never fear, scientists have discovered a way to possibly neutralize these harmful effects — drinking beer! Now that’s a sign if I ever saw one. I know I always have a beer in hand while manning the grill, for “safety reasons”. (You know, in case there’s a fire.) But now I have a higher purpose, it’s for my health.
For more information you can read this article from Science News Online, which contains a whole mess of $2 words like “heterocyclic amines” and “epigallocatechin gallate” both of which sound like terrible names for beer or barbecue.
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A HEMI Powered BBQ
You just can’t get more manly than a 5.7 liter V-8 HEMI powered, stainless steel barbecue grill can you? Tim Kowalec recently fired up this baby while announcing the five finalists in the Chrysler Group’s “What Can You HEMI?” contents.
It used to be that the Chrysler HEMI was used only for mundane tasks such as powering Dodge trucks, but now that power has been put to better use as a grilling furnace. Mmm, extra transmission fluid on my hot dog please!
The contest included such HEMI powered beasts as a paper shredder and snow blower, but the winner was a souped up tricycle with a 4 foot front wheel.
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Britain’s Biggest BBQ Blunders
Burnt bums, bungled bungee barbis, bursting Bollinger, melted bikini top straps and a python in a barbi are among the top 10 BBQ bloopers reported by respondant’s to Britain’s National BBQ News poll for the biggest grilling blunders of the year.
“Fortunately almost all had a happy ending,” says Brian George of the National BBQ Association who has collected these gems of BBQ blunders from barbi fans this year. So here the official list of Britain’s top ten biggest barbi blunders so far in 2005…
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The World’s Largest BBQ?
Adventure Alliance in Georgetown, Texas owns and operates what they claim is The Ultimate Smoker and Grill. The grill is the size of a tanker trunk and hauled by a semi. It is 55 feet long and can cook 2000 pounds of barbecue, 200 steaks, or 1000 hot dogs at once.
This monster barbecue is available for hire, and is primarily used for coporate events and team building outings. Pepcid launched its newest offering, Pepcid Complete at the New York Stock Exchange by featuring this monster grill. In two hours, they served jalapeno cheese sausage to 13,000 followed up with samples of their new product. Very clever.
Want to hire this monster-trunk-grill for your next cookout? Save your pennies, its $5000 a day for the stop plus $3 for each mile of travel involved. And that doesn’t include the food, which runs $5 a person for hot dogs, up to $25 a person for full blow dinner packages.
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Barbecue Flavored Ice Cream?
Ok, this is just nasty. The Udder Delight Ice Cream House in Deleware is now offering a barbecue flavored ice cream. The ice cream is made with a North Carolina style, vinegar based barbecue sauce mixed in with the more traditional ingredients.
Wearing a denim “Cackalacky” logo apron and a white 10-gallon cowboy hat, Skelton is the president of the Cackalacky Classic Condiment Co. in Chapel Hill, N.C. He drove up this week for the unveiling of this oddball ice cream made with his award-winning sauce, typically poured over North Carolina pork barbecue. Skelton and Hearn, 52, like to travel the nation’s competitive barbecue circuit together.“You can do almost anything with ice cream — that’s the beauty of it,” says Hearn, whose XXXL size shows how beautiful he finds ice cream. He has been in the business 35 years, but it’s only in the past three that making dairy out of the ordinary for this store and his boardwalk shop up the street has become his passion.
I like ice cream, I like barbecue, but I don’t think I’d like barbecue ice cream. Other flavors on the menu include chunky bacon (yes really) and peanut butter with jelly.
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BBQ Brushes Can Be Hazardous
Wow, ick. Believe it or not, according to this article there’s been a number of people seriously injured by injesting metal bristles that have dislodged from their BBQ brush:
In the last year, doctors at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children have had to remove broken-off wire bristles from the throats of three patients, and in one case the barb had migrated through the child’s neck and could have perforated a major blood vessel.The bristles had been left behind on the grill after the brushes were used to scrub off that greasy gunk left behind by flaming steaks, burgers and other fare — then got stuck on food that was subsequently cooked.
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