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not just another drop in the ocean

Yo meep! Yo meep! A pirate's life for me!
We extort and pilfer, we filch and sack...
Drink up me hearties, Yo meep!
...maraud, embezzle and even hijack!
Drink up me hearties, Yo meep!

Three four pound corned-beef briskets doing a three day dry-cure.
Pastrami smell permeating the entire kitchen...

Also:
Stole one of Perfect Neighbor Brian's slightly-bjorked, but still functional repair projects for making those tissue-thin slices:


Sometimes I f#cking love my life.

@spankerchief

OK, corned beef here is usually silverside, and comes packed in a plastic bag with the brine. How do you prepare it for a dry cure, and what do you use to cure it?

I'm taking some extra steps.
You're supposed to be able to dry-cure an unsalted brisket(non-corned beef) as long as it's less than two inches thick (just the flat) with the fat cap trimmed to less than 18"
I'm taking a corned beef brisket (already cured) and soaking it in water for four hours, (changing the water twice an hour) to get some of the salt out, I'm not sure about the need to soak it first.
Cover in a mix of equal parts freshly cracked peppercorns, brown sugar and corriander (1/4 cup), a few tablespoons of garlic powder and meat tenderizer and a couple of teaspoons of salt.
(You might try skipping the soaking and just leave out the salt.
I think the spices would still circulate into the meat.)
Place in plastic bag and let sit in fridge for at least three days, (flipping and shaking the bags twice a day to allow for even curing)
Then wash off the meat thoroughly and soak for half an hour, change the water and soak for another half hour.
Recoat the meat with three tablespoons cracked black pepper, one tablespoon corriander and a teaspoon of garlic powder and smoke to an internal temp of 160f
Some people just take a corned beef brisket, do the hour-long soak, coat it with the second mix of seasoning and it seems like it's just as good.

@spankerchief

Sounds good.

How about adding this to the food thread so we can find it again.

Please.

Behold ye scury meeps!
I've got the prototype figgured out for the get-together October:



Derpy The Cabin Boy approves of the new sword design.

Now for a little stain to dress it up a bit(nothing too fancy)


Now that all the jigs are builted, we're ready to crank out thirty or forty of 'em.

@spankerchief

How are you making the guard, or is that a trade secret?

Like this:

(Jigs for holding it together as the glue dries are still a work in progress)

LARP Party!

"Drunk-as-meep sword swinging, treasure hunting, park ranger cussing, singing and noshing on barbecue...LARP party."
Old f#ckers do it PROPERLY.

Drunk-as-meep sword swinging, treasure hunting, park ranger cussing, singing and noshing on barbecue...LARP party is no way to go through life, son.

You know,
I read that in Tommy Lee Jones's voice.
...
Hold on a minute...
Why...who's THIS playing pirates...?

VERY Angry Birds

Sweet meepery Jeezus Crackers,
I just spent the entire day OBLITERATING a stack of 3/4" birch to make this rather unimpressive little row of parts.
I had to plane everything down to 1/2" first, so right off the bat I threw away about $40 worth of wood.
Man, that ALWAYS hurts. :(

@spankerchief

Sweet meepery Jeezus Crackers, I just spent the entire day OBLITERATING a stack of 3/4" birch to make this rather unimpressive little row of parts. I had to plane everything down to 1/2" first, so right off the bat I threw away about $40 worth of wood. Man, that ALWAYS hurts. :(

I actually know what that entails, having been a cabinet maker in one of my lives. meepity. Too bad you don't have a hampster for all the wood shavings. That is some commitment. Now I gotta start putting some meep together.

Lovely batch of cutlasses for one meep of a drunken LARP party! I volunteer to watch over the kiddies and the grog.,

Gotta leave a Grandma at camp

Thanks, Goat!
Man, I'm so glad you guys are up for helping with this.

Good progress today.

practicing my rapeface

^Too rapey.

It makes MY meephole cinch up.
Is that good or bad for you?

F#ck you diet.
Seriously.
I wanted some g#ddamned STEAK AND BEER.

Step away from the ranch dip, spanky. Don't make me get the guys together for an intervention.

The bowl of meep seems unnecessary. @spankerchief

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fack!

Fixed it for ya Pete.

would've been funnier if it was a st bernard but i am not complaining.

The work of the Amazing Davey Mills, one of our Torch Brothers.

That's beautiful. It looks Tolkeinian.

Speak, friend, and enter.