August 20, 20187 yr Author 48 minutes ago, Gene Howe said: Guess I'll just go eat some Twinkies. With a shelf life of seven years, didn't Hostess just make the one batch back around 1930... and be careful.. there's chinese counterfeits out there... New Twinkies are made in China - and will last 2,000 years ... Twinkies are produced and distributed by multiple commercial bakeries in China, where Hostess does not own the brand.... Edited August 20, 20187 yr by Stick486
August 20, 20187 yr Years ago when we did a BBQ we gave our German shepherd a wiener right out of the package, and she would pick it up in her mouth and look around then trot out to the back fence and dig a hole and bury it. In a few days she would dig it up and bury it some other place, this went on and on ,every few days, that hot dog never did spoil, and she never ate it. Smart dog. Herb
August 20, 20187 yr Author 6 minutes ago, Dadio said: and she never ate it. evidently nothing human did either...
August 21, 20187 yr 2 hours ago, Gene Howe said: Guess I'll just go eat some Twinkies. With a shelf life of seven years, they gotta be good for yer gut, right? Heat from deep frying them removes anything harmful
August 21, 20187 yr Popular Post 1 hour ago, Grandpadave52 said: Heat from deep frying them removes anything harmful Surely you're not advocating deep frying MDF.
August 21, 20187 yr 8 minutes ago, Gene Howe said: Surely you're not advocating deep frying MDF. Only the new rice cake version. Set up a stand at some of the fairs & festivals with Deep Fried on the signage and be prepared for long lines.
August 21, 20187 yr Author 3 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said: Only the new rice cake version. Set up a stand at some of the fairs & festivals with Deep Fried on the signage and be prepared for long lines. and the further south ya set up the longer the lines...
August 21, 20187 yr Author 14 minutes ago, Gene Howe said: Surely you're not advocating deep frying MDF. couldn't make it any worse.. might even help it some...
August 21, 20187 yr Hmmmm...Polyethylene? And just what do you suppose all the water, soda, and other drink bottles are being made from... I also worked at a Rubber Hose factory....the Ethyl and Methyl used to vulcanize the rubber compounds...those did have cancer labels....but it was more about the chemicals that went with them.
August 21, 20187 yr 12 hours ago, Dadio said: Years ago when we did a BBQ we gave our German shepherd a wiener right out of the package, and she would pick it up in her mouth and look around then trot out to the back fence and dig a hole and bury it. In a few days she would dig it up and bury it some other place, this went on and on ,every few days, that hot dog never did spoil, and she never ate it. Smart dog. Herb I worked in a meat packing plant and hot dogs were one of the products made there. Lots of chemical additives and no part of a pig went unused. One day I worked the raw materials side of the process. My supervisor pointed to a brown paper bag the size of a bag of cement. He told me to pick it up and put it on a table. It was frozen solid. He told me to tear the paper off, handed me a hatchet, and told me to chop off pieces and feed them into a grinder. The printing on the bag said PORK BYPRODUCTS. I asked what BYPRODUCTS were. He said 'everything'. I recognized skin, ears, tails, gristle. Nothing was off limits. Add some nitrates and voila....hot dogs!!!! Oh, and maybe some other stuff e.g. cigarette ashes and cigarette butts compliments of the employees. German Shepard......maybe she would have given it a try if it was knockwurst rather than a wiener?
August 21, 20187 yr Popular Post On 8/19/2018 at 5:20 PM, Dadio said: HF stands behind their product warranties too. Georgia has a humidity level of 70%-100% in the summertime , so a sling of MDF will be busting it's bands be the time they ship it. Herb Concerning HF warranties. First a little background. I bought a HF flooring nailer. At checkout the employee game me the warranty pitch that it was only 90 days. I bit. When I got home I read the owner's manual....90 day warranty if tool will be used commercially or will be rented out.....otherwise 1 year warranty. I called HF customer service for clarification and was told that per the HF web site the warranty was 90 days. I said I did not buy on-line. No luck. I called the phone number on the warranty receipt. The warranty company is not HF but is a third party. I asked when the extended warranty that I purchased started. 90 days after purchase date or 1 year after purchase date? Warranty person did not know. Never did get an official answer but the store manager said not to worry. FWIW the HF flooring nailer worked fine....installed 1500+ feet of hardwood and the tool never jambed or misfired.....$99 well spent. Has this topic gone off course, or what.
August 21, 20187 yr Popular Post Several years ago, an attorney friend who did a stint with the FDA, advised me to try to always buy "Frankfurters" or "Hot dogs" and to never buy "Weiners". When first introduced to Scrapple on a breakfast menu, I asked the waitress what it was. Her response was "LOP". Further inquiry revealed that "LOP" was Left Over Pig. It was delicious. Born and raised on a farm, we slaughtered quite a few hogs. (As well as steers and chickens). With hogs particularly, NOTHING went to waste. Yeah @JIMMIEM, we've kinda wandered off into the weeds here, haven't we? Edited August 21, 20187 yr by Gene Howe
August 21, 20187 yr 17 minutes ago, Gene Howe said: Several years ago, an attorney friend who did a stint with the FDA, advised me to try to always buy "Frankfurters" or "Hot dogs" and to never buy "Weiners". When first introduced to Scrapple on a breakfast menu, I asked the waitress what it was. Her response was "LOP". Further inquiry revealed that "LOP" was Left Over Pig. It was delicious. Born and raised on a farm, we slaughtered quite a few hogs. (As well as steers and chickens). With hogs particularly, NOTHING went to waste. Yeah @JIMMIEM, we've kinda wandered off into the weeds here, haven't we? Would you happen to have a recipe for head cheese or the proper way to prepare ham hocks?
August 21, 20187 yr Author 20 minutes ago, Gene Howe said: Yeah @JIMMIEM, we've kinda wandered off into the weeds here, haven't we? don't worry about till John breaks out the bush hog...
August 21, 20187 yr 10 hours ago, steven newman said: Hmmmm...Polyethylene? And just what do you suppose all the water, soda, and other drink bottles are being made from... I also worked at a Rubber Hose factory....the Ethyl and Methyl used to vulcanize the rubber compounds...those did have cancer labels....but it was more about the chemicals that went with them. darn spell check! Should have been Perchloroethylene! I changed it once and it got change back before I published the post! Sorry about that!
August 21, 20187 yr Popular Post 1 hour ago, JIMMIEM said: Would you happen to have a recipe for head cheese or the proper way to prepare ham hocks? We never made head cheese. The only secondary processing we did was to make lye soap and "cracklins". As to Ham Hocks, I'm not sure about the "proper way" to prepare them. We just boil cured ones in a stock pot for around 2+ hrs. At some point, we add Great Northern beans to the pot. The beans should have been soaking in salted water for a day prior. We find that the beans need to be started to boil in a separate pot, using the salted water they soaked in. Then, added to the ham hock pot, with pepper to taste, about an hour before the hocks are done. Don't forget the corn bread. And, we like to add real horseradish at the table.
August 21, 20187 yr Hmmmm, add some oil to the iron skillet, slice some cucumbers lengthwise.....and deep fry them in the skillet....sometimes dragged them through the corn flour and egg thing
August 21, 20187 yr Seems like everything I read about coming from China contains Melamine. Not sure of the spelling but why that product?? Is it that 50 billion people raise the stuff and needs to get it going somewhere to make room for more??
August 21, 20187 yr People who eat lots of cracklins end up with wrinkled skin or so my mom use to tell me!!
August 21, 20187 yr 44 minutes ago, Smallpatch said: Seems like everything I read about coming from China contains Melamine. Not sure of the spelling but why that product?? Is it that 50 billion people raise the stuff and needs to get it going somewhere to make room for more?? Melamine is sometimes illegally added to food products in order to increase the apparent protein content. Standard tests, such as the Kjeldahl and Dumas tests, estimate protein levels by measuring the nitrogen content, so they can be misled by adding nitrogen-rich compounds such as melamine. An instrument (SPRINT) developed by the company CEM Corp allows the determination of protein content directly in some applications; the instrument cannot be fooled by adding melamine in the sample.[12][13]
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