agree about battery storage and costs. It's not feasible
Big changer will be electric cars that can act as a battery at night.
Our homes actually don't need that much power, so if you can store what you produce via solar then you'll have plenty for the house overnight and plenty for the car the next day.
People who dont care what the meat they are buying is will just default to price and convenience i.e. Colesworth.
I dunno. I want this to be true but I find the meat pretty reasonable at both. You just have to shop the midrange.
Tbh as a bbq-er a butcher is almost wasted on me. I just want the cheap cuts for low and slow. The butcher advantage is you can get products you can't get at the supermarket (eg, bone-in pork shoulder). Still seems hard to find decent American style cuts at butcher's though - brisket packet or pork butt etc.
Otherwise I don't care for the crappy rissoles or "gourmet" sausages.
The other thing is that I rarely eat red meat. Ill have a t-bone now and then buy for my family out meat consumption is chicken and fish (and mince).
Maybe most butchers don't need to worry about the local consumer and just supply to restaurants?
It's true that for a milk style coffee, the supermarket beans at $12kg are good value. They're often high turnover so you're drinking fresh and I find they behave well in the grinder.
The important thing is that in the event of an apocalypse, you will still have access to coffee
Family out, couldn't be bothered making a real dinner.. so went with my new favourite cut T-Bone and made a sandwich. It was so good I had another.
I have some salmon fillets I should eat but was thinking of curing.
Should I use a pink salt (instacure, #1, etc)?
I will hot smoke in the pellet grill.
Another, much more successful, paella on the kamado.
this device is fantastic: https://www.kindlingcracker.co…/ausi-products/?view=list
I searched for "kindling cracker" and it appears there are plenty of eBay knockoffs.
Tell her you feel bad she always has to work hard hosting and you all really want to help her so she can relax and enjoy the day 😉
Unfortunately she's one of those intense people that can't relax or be helped, haha. Don't worry she's got plenty of good qualities too but making Xmas easier and more relaxing is not one of her priorities.
Jealous. We always had a ham in the fridge for cold cuts in December, but never a ham for Xmas lunch.
Unfortunately MIL is still in charge of lunch duty and this year it was a pork loin, dryer than an otter's pocket.
There used to be lots of CSR sugar, and now the shelves are full of the supermarket brand.
I think the Aldi model was probably responsible for that.
Colesworth follows a Good, Better, Best model. It's hard to justify buying a brand name staple when the "good" version will do.
I tend to stick with brands if they have an associated taste.. eg, Vegemite. I won't get some random yeast spread. Maybe sometimes I can imagine a difference in quality, eg breakfast cereal from Kellogg's seems to be decent as opposed to random cornflakes. Maybe that's because I'm a product of my cheap migrant dad who only ever bought no-name.. so a bit of rebellion mixed with an inheritance of being a sceptical tight ass.
I always aassumed it was the same stuff anyway?
This one's pretty good
I've got covid again.
T-bone for one. On the gasser (chips and steak). Bloody lovely.
He sort of sounds like OzzyManReviews
How is it December already.
Pizza again. It took me until the last one to properly get the hang of it, but it was an improvement over last time.
As long as they're not forequarter chops....eurgh.
It doesn't have to be raw, but it does have to be unhomogenised.
I made a Paella Valenciana last night over the coals on the Akorn.
I did it a few weeks ago and completely destroyed it by making it too hot and too spicy with hot paprika.
Last night was better but I've obviously forgotten how to keep the heat reasonable. It was just too hot and too hard.
Next time I'll just cook it over a camp fire I think.
