Tall Midget wrote:
What is your method for smoking brisket?
What is your current favorite beer?
What do you consider your greatest mult?
What book did you most enjoy reading in the past 18 months or so?
How I-L-L does it make you to be a U of I alum?
What is your favorite movie of the 80s?
How old were you the first time you made out with a girl? How awkward was it?
Why don't you do a barbecue podcast?
How often do you openly weep?
What do you consider the most embarrassing thing you've ever done?
I'm not going to do the whole BRick thing. I'm not that good. I'll go in order.
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Brisket - I like to do an ancho/finely ground espresso rub. Cut the corner of the meat when it is raw to know how the grain is for cutting when finished.
Inject with your choice. I do Au Jus/Garlic Powder/Onion Powder and Cayenne. Smoke to 165F and then cut off the point. Cover the rest of the point with your rub and put on the cooler section of the smoker. Put the flat in a catering tin and cover with a cup of au jus. Cook to 203. Put the flat in a cooler under a towel for 2 hours to finish. Enjoy. There's more to it but those are the Cliff Notes that will get you there.
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Haven't been drinking a lot of beer lately but my local guy at Alter Beer usually has an interesting option.
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Greatest Mult - great question. I've loved doing so many of them. I wish I still had Joe Biden. His Bird Flu post was one of my favorites. Old Man Potter was very difficult and would often take an hour to do one because I tried to research old '20s/'30s slang to make it seem authentic but I was very happy with how those turned out. Jordan was also hard - at some point it was hard to work in words that end in -ly and TELL THEM I SAID IT closes. Gekko was fun but limited. Hell, I've forgotten half of the ones I've had but I'll say Regular's Troll was a fun one to write. His meta-commentary on being a troll was fun for me. Special shoutout to, not a mult, but the posts of Dr. Ken and his Children. I thought that was some of my best stuff. And damn you bigfan for deleting all that stuff I spent hours of my life working on to make your website a more entertaining place to visit.
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Best book - outside of cookbooks, haven't been reading of late. I fill my time listening to podcasts. I rarely have an hour or two to just sit and read something - which is why I haven't been posting here as much of late.
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You'd be surprised to learn I love UofI. Met my wife, The Bandit, there. Dr. Ken Jr. I is there now studying Physics. Don't have a bad word to say about it. Lovie should blitz more.
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Favorite movie of the '80s - You'll get mad but it is Wall Street. I watched it many times. Cemented my inclination to go into a financial career. Also introduced me to a lifelong love of Frank Sinatra music. I celebrate the guy's entire catalog. Sang That's Life recently at karaoke. My wife and I danced to The Way You Look Tonight at our wedding. Runner up to Die Hard.
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Made out with a girl when I was 16. It was very awkward.
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Greg Rempe does a great BBQ podcast. I couldn't match that.
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Openly weep? Not too often. I'm pretty stonefaced. Most think I'm unapproachable. And they would be correct.
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Most embarrassing thing I've ever done - I don't usually put myself in those positions. Probably the podcast.
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There you go, Midget. Bet you didn't think I'd respond.
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