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Post by smokey on Mar 22, 2015 22:03:53 GMT 10
Quite often we will see conflicting information given up re how to do things. For example the Captain and I often enjoy radical different ways of doing things. Hes not wrong , nor am I . What is important is that you find your own " level" Find your own personal way and take from others what floats your boat. BBQ Is by nature conflicting . getting good at it comes from having a go at all the ways and settling on what will suddenly become evident , " Your way"
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Post by captaincook on Mar 24, 2015 0:44:07 GMT 10
Yes Mick your spot on. Just look at how many ways there are to cook a snag. Family get used to the way they are cooked and served up by you and that is there and your preference. The guy next door has a POS BBQ but knows it's sweet spots and cooks them differently and his family prefer them over yours. As I have always said learn how to get the best out of your equipment and the many different ways of cooking on it. On this forum we give advice based on our experiences and the ways that we use our BBQs and that advice will differ but have a common theme.
Captain
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Post by chrisg on Mar 24, 2015 7:48:32 GMT 10
Which is why cookbooks are fun to read but are not gospel. Cheers
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Post by captaincook on Mar 24, 2015 8:30:44 GMT 10
To me a cookbook is an inspiration and a basic recipe that you can tweak and adjust to your taste and method of cooking.
Captain
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Post by 420kev on Mar 24, 2015 9:40:49 GMT 10
so totally agree with you Phil.
however the wife stays true to the recipe on the 1st cook......just to see how and what she can do to tweak it the next time.
kevin
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Post by smokey on Mar 24, 2015 9:49:16 GMT 10
I often do that too Kev, Probably 80% of them I'll change them next time. Some of them are glaringly wrong from the start.
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Post by 420kev on Mar 24, 2015 9:58:04 GMT 10
yeah
you called that one spot on, Mick
kevin
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Post by bill44 on Mar 24, 2015 13:33:19 GMT 10
It takes 3 tries to get a recipe right. 1. You do it as per the book. then 2. You do it correctly as per the book because you didn't quite get it correct the first time. Then if it wasn't too bad 3. You do it with the variations and tweaks that makes it more to your taste.
Many are the recipes that didn't make it to No2.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 16:10:54 GMT 10
G'day .... And I never experiment on guests. It's only the tried and proved recipes that make it. Family now there different, you never feel as guilty experimenting on them. Regards dave
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Post by chrisg on Mar 24, 2015 16:35:16 GMT 10
I think I have a whole ONE by the book recipe that I slavishly adhere to because I can't improve on it, that's the Gretta Anna Bearnaise On the other hand I do read a lot of cookbooks, to give me ideas. Cheers
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Post by osdave on Mar 24, 2015 18:10:29 GMT 10
Damn I thought this was gunna be about pork knuckle.
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Post by smokey on Mar 24, 2015 19:00:08 GMT 10
Damn I thought this was gunna be about pork knuckle. Now that's a challenge accepted Just got home from kids sport and what do I have in the freezer ?
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Post by captaincook on Mar 25, 2015 9:35:38 GMT 10
What sort of a pork knuckle recipe do you want. I can probably make one up while I am sitting here having a coffee. What I do is imagine the finished dish and work backwards from there. Type of finish, flavour profile, length of cook and temp to achieve, set up, - direct or. Indirect. Charcoal, gas or pellets. Not hard to do if you think it out.
I will cook new dishes/recipes for guests. If it doesn't work out I just say it was a Jamie Oliver recipe. Not that I have many failures.
Captain.
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Post by shayneh2006 on Mar 25, 2015 16:33:56 GMT 10
And then you get the recipes (I think we have all been down this road) that read well and sound like they will be a crowd pleaser, only to have them turn out well, YUK .
Time, cost and effort wasted soooo, these get a artline texta ruled right through the page marked,,, "never again".
I do this because, the old memory isn't as good as it once was and I have been stung cooking the same disaster meal twice only to hear the missus say "it was no good last time so why did you cook it again"
Shayne
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Post by chrisg on Mar 25, 2015 17:02:50 GMT 10
I can't say I've done that - yet, but does sound like a good precaution I do know the kind of recipe you mean though, here in Perth there's a weekend TV magazine in the local paper that has a guest chef offer 7 days of recipes for the coming week. A couple I've give a go have been ... okaaay, one was just bearable, a few you look at and just shake your head and turn the page Just one thus far has been really outstanding and transcribed. Of course the good thing with those is end of week the magazine is in the bin An interesting aside would be that more and more the recipes are bbq centric.
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