THe NAC Lots-O-BFG KO2 Thread

[scully]

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Fried bacon ftw.

 

[XBoBJ]

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thanks again for that unit bearing ken!

 

[kastein]

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thanks again for that unit bearing ken!

No problem, got it for free with the free axle Robz donated to my jeep when I blew up my old one :worship:

Video I first saw YEARS ago, so most of you have probably already seen it, but it's pretty awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKg5-asGRHY (NOT techno jeep, but it does have a jeep in it)

 

[XBoBJ]

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No problem, got it for free with the free axle Robz donated to my jeep when I blew up my old one :worship:

thanks rob ahah.

 

[ROBZ95Xj]

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thanks rob ahah.

no prob, i think that bearing might actually be an orig out of the blue jeep, you now have part of a legend

 

[XBoBJ]

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no prob, i think that bearing might actually be an orig out of the blue jeep, you now have part of a legend

ill throw it in, if it dont grid like my current one or if it sounds better ill run.

 

[5spd_xj]

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so, anyone here into backpacking at all? I just bought this guy the other day:

http://www.gregorypacks.com/products/view/17

 

[themangeraaad]

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Son of a bitch. This sucks. I want to leave work and planned on getting out of here around 3ish. I got an email this morning saying "we want to do [insert test] later today, can you help?"....

Since then no one has got in touch to let me know when this is going on. I sent out an email asking the guy what time he wants to do this. I went looking for anyone involved. No one is here. I don't know if people decided not to do this test until next week or what; I don't know if I can leave at 3 or if someone will end up emailing me at 4 saying "oh we want to do this now".

Plus now I want buff chix and bacon.

 

[vetteboy]

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Just spent the last hour and change cleaning my office. And made one more phone call, and wrote/answered no emails.

This is also the last day I'm here until Jan. 3rd.

Not a bad way to end the year.

 

[asp]

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so, anyone here into backpacking at all? I just bought this guy the other day:

http://www.gregorypacks.com/products/view/17

I forgot to respond to your text a few days ago :doh:

http://www.rei.com/product/739388
this is the pack that I have. I haven't done really any long trips with it, but for what I have used it for it's been great.

That Gregory looks pretty snazzy. They make good gear.

 

[RCman]

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Hey gents...

Yep... I just got the instructions from my wife. If using a regular-sized crock pot, do a 1/2 cup to 1 cup of RED wine, and use 1/3 to 1/2 of a regular-sized Special Dark candy bar. It is the combo of the red wine AND dark chocolate that REALLY give the chili a great flavor. Put this in last though, just before the chili is ready to serve. Before you put it in, put some chili in a small bowl for a taste-testing comparo. Put the dark chocolate in, let it melt and stir it up and let it simmer for another 20 minutes.

Then do a side-by-side taste test.

A.

Glad I read this before I started.

I can only think of one way to improve a buff chix pizza.... and that would be to add BACON!!!!!!


yum!!!

When I was out buying meet they only had 0.9-1lb packages or over 3 lbs. So since I needed 1/2 a lb of something I grabbed a lb of bacon. It'll be a pretty meaty chili but that is a good thing.

All laid out:

Diced and ready to cook meat:

Smelling good:

Time to wait:

 

[billyjp2]

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Stop & Shop?!?!?!?

What about locally owned Big Y? atriot:

 

[RCman]

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Stop & Shop?!?!?!?

What about locally owned Big Y? atriot:

Don't have any in my area. I've got a Shop&Shop 15min away, a Shaw's 20min away and a Hanaford 25min away.

 

[billyjp2]

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you and your bulletproof excuses...

 

[5spd_xj]

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I forgot to respond to your text a few days ago :doh:

http://www.rei.com/product/739388
this is the pack that I have. I haven't done really any long trips with it, but for what I have used it for it's been great.

That Gregory looks pretty snazzy. They make good gear.

No problem dudeee. Only reason I got the Gregory is they just seem to fit me really good, and I found a really good deal, >50% off, so I just decided to get it. I got the red one, btw.

On a side note, Scott has me really thinking about buying a harness so he can have a buddy to go rock climbing with. That would be fun as hell also

 

[vetteboy]

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A few comments:

- I've never used 'chili meat'...most recently it's been 93% lean ground beef. Curious to see how that works out. I'm not even sure what the difference is.

- That's not smoked sausage...and I hope you had better luck than I did trying to cut it up into little pieces before cooking it. That was a mess, I tried the same variety pack. I quit after one link and grilled the rest. Smoked sausage is more like your summer/hotdogish looking stuff.

- Haven't tried bacon yet. Did that yield a lot of grease?

- I wonder what the difference between tomato paste vs. sauce is.

- I used the stop & shop generic spices & canned stuff when possible as well, still turned out fine. No intention of changing that, don't wanna mess up a good thing.

Good luck and enjoy! Think I'm gonna stop on the way home and pick up stuff for a 3rd batch. My buddy is workin at the local bar tonight and requested some...which basically means I can trade chili for beer. Cool.

Then my dad & grandpa want me to make some for christmas eve dinner. Methinks I should have gotten a bigger cooker. :laugh:

 

[kastein]

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ill throw it in, if it dont grid like my current one or if it sounds better ill run.

if it does grind I got a whole pile of shafts and crap in storage, and I will only be running d30 shit on the DD MJ within a year so it's not like I'm gonna really need it.

Just spent the last hour and change cleaning my office. And made one more phone call, and wrote/answered no emails.

This is also the last day I'm here until Jan. 3rd.

Not a bad way to end the year.

yeah, same. I basically flushed 3 weeks of vacation down the drain this year and 1 last year (I was saving it for working on the house... oops) but next year I clearly won't be wasting any.

No problem dudeee. Only reason I got the Gregory is they just seem to fit me really good, and I found a really good deal, >50% off, so I just decided to get it. I got the red one, btw.

On a side note, Scott has me really thinking about buying a harness so he can have a buddy to go rock climbing with. That would be fun as hell also

I've been thinking about buying a harness for working on the roof, it would make it much easier. Right now I have to grab the rope with one hand and it makes nailing things down difficult, holding myself up with a rope while holding a nail in the same hand and swinging the hammer with the other hand gets old quick. Fortunately I should be done with this nonsense soon but I kinda needed an excuse to buy a climbing harness anyways.

A few comments:

- I've never used 'chili meat'...most recently it's been 93% lean ground beef. Curious to see how that works out. I'm not even sure what the difference is.

- That's not smoked sausage...and I hope you had better luck than I did trying to cut it up into little pieces before cooking it. That was a mess, I tried the same variety pack. I quit after one link and grilled the rest. Smoked sausage is more like your summer/hotdogish looking stuff.

- Haven't tried bacon yet. Did that yield a lot of grease?

- I wonder what the difference between tomato paste vs. sauce is.

- I used the stop & shop generic spices & canned stuff when possible as well, still turned out fine. No intention of changing that, don't wanna mess up a good thing.

Good luck and enjoy! Think I'm gonna stop on the way home and pick up stuff for a 3rd batch. My buddy is workin at the local bar tonight and requested some...which basically means I can trade chili for beer. Cool.

Then my dad & grandpa want me to make some for christmas eve dinner. Methinks I should have gotten a bigger cooker. :laugh:

I always save bacon grease if I'm making pancakes in the near future, it works just as well as butter or oil for keeping them from sticking and adds bacon flavoring :lickout::chef:

 

[asp]

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A few comments:

- That's not smoked sausage...and I hope you had better luck than I did trying to cut it up into little pieces before cooking it. That was a mess, I tried the same variety pack. I quit after one link and grilled the rest. Smoked sausage is more like your summer/hotdogish looking stuff.

- I wonder what the difference between tomato paste vs. sauce is.

- I used the stop & shop generic spices & canned stuff when possible as well, still turned out fine. No intention of changing that, don't wanna mess up a good thing.

- What kind of cutlery do you have? A good knife makes a huge difference.

- Thickness. My mom starts her slow-cooker spaghetti sauce with paste, not sauce too, FWIW. I've yet to have a single spaghetti sauce I like better.

- I doubt you'll taste a difference, especially with adding that much spices and slow cooking. It will take on a lot of the taste of what is cooked in it. I agree, save $ and buy the non-name brand stuff on things like that.

 

[RCman]

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A few comments:

- I've never used 'chili meat'...most recently it's been 93% lean ground beef. Curious to see how that works out. I'm not even sure what the difference is.

- That's not smoked sausage...and I hope you had better luck than I did trying to cut it up into little pieces before cooking it. That was a mess, I tried the same variety pack. I quit after one link and grilled the rest. Smoked sausage is more like your summer/hotdogish looking stuff.

- Haven't tried bacon yet. Did that yield a lot of grease?

- I wonder what the difference between tomato paste vs. sauce is.

- I used the stop & shop generic spices & canned stuff when possible as well, still turned out fine. No intention of changing that, don't wanna mess up a good thing.

Good luck and enjoy! Think I'm gonna stop on the way home and pick up stuff for a 3rd batch. My buddy is workin at the local bar tonight and requested some...which basically means I can trade chili for beer. Cool.

Then my dad & grandpa want me to make some for christmas eve dinner. Methinks I should have gotten a bigger cooker. :laugh:

- Chili meat is a little bigger of a grind than regular ground beef and was $0.69/lb less so I cut the corner.

- I know that isn't smoked sausage, the smoked stuff was $4.99 and that package was $2.99, so I again cut the corner. Kinda a pain to cut up, but it only took a few minutes.

- Bacon did yield a bit of grease cooking it, but I was sure to strain it out really well so I should be ok. I did cut out about 3/4 of the fat before starting so that did help cut it down.

- I used the sauce like you recommended, I grabbed the paste 'cause Adam mentioned that it was a good way to thicken it up. At $0.30/can I wasn't going to skip it. I think paste is a little thicker and has less water, I'll let you know if I open one.

- Yup, I used the market brand were ever possible, I need to cut corners as I am trying to save for a house and this batch of chili is already costing my over $30. Haha.

- I've got a Christmas/gag gift party tonight so the cooker is on high right now. Hopefully it'll be done in time.

 

[rweaver138]

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Correct on the sauce vs. paste bill, the paste is thicker. I know, i work at a pizza shop