u/sassmo

Edit: Sorry for all the D.O.,which stands for Dutch Oven.

I have a bunch of Dutch Oven recipes that call for a dozen briquettes on top, and half-dozen under my D.O. Do you have any work-arounds that would provide beat for top and bottom of the D.O.?

Also, got any good recipes? My favorites are as follows:

Dump cake: 1-2 inches of fruit on bottom, pour over Betty Crocker cake mix, pour over 8-12oz of sprite or ginger ale, thinly slice and apply evenly over the top, half a stick of butter. DO NOT MIX. Put 7-8 pieces of hot charcoal underneath and 14 pieces of charcoal on top, evenly spaced. Let cook for about 45 minutes (when someone comments on the delicious smell wafting through camp, you know it's done).

Breakfast casserole: saute chopped onion and bell pepper with plenty of oil in the bottom of the DO on a camp stove. Pour in 1.5 eggs per serving, whipped with Lowery's garlic salt, pepper, and a dash of milk if you brought some. Pour a small bag of frozen country potatoes or hashbrowns over top of eggs. Pour in a couple cups of cheese. Gently shake a little so the layers settle into each other. Apply coals as per recipe above. Wait for delicious smells and then serve.

Lasagna: put a nice coating of olive oil in bottom of pan (optional: onions and bells as per breakfast recipe). Put a thin layer of red sauce. Put in a single layer of oven-ready lasagna noodles (oven-ready noodles don't require boiling first). Break noodles to fit rounded DO edges. Put a spoonful of red sauce on top of noodles and smear around. Apply several spoonfuls of ricotta. Apply more spoonfuls of red sauce. More noodles. More ricotta and red sauce. Apply other ingredients between layers as you see fit - bacon, sausage, vegetables, etc. You should have 3-4 layers when finished. Make sure you save enough red sauce to at least lightly coat the top. Top the red sauce with a cup or two of shredded mozzarella, cheddar, or your cheese of choice. Apply charcoal and wait for smells.

On my 55g that I posted about failing recently, I had built a wooden hood that sat on top (which I suspect may have contributed to the brace failure). I'm an electrician and I wired up 4 waterproof fixtures with screw-in 5500k full spectrum LED bulbs on that hood.

I'd like to salvage the lights for my new 75g, but replace all the wood with a lightweight plastic or sheet metal. I also considered just putting hanging supports on the hood.

Please share with me your custom hoods so that I might be inspired to try something I didn't already consider!

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I'm surrounded by high decibel machinery, but with normal earplugs I can't hear anything my coworkers are saying. Are there good earplugs/buds for filtering noise but not conversation?

We are visiting for the day from Eastern Oregon and would like to find some clothes for the kiddo for summertime.

I'm driving down 84 from Eastern Oregon and just saw a guy driving a beat up old truck with a laminated Idaho license plate that looked like it was drawn with sharpie by a third grader. His face looked pre-made for a mugshot. I don't normally like to snitch, but he looked like the kind of guy who wishes he had enough money to be in the Epstein files and the handmade license plate is just a cherry on the top.

My buddy is a welder and he's rebuilding a raft trailer for me. It just needs to have a deck put on it and I'm trying to decide what material to use. He can weld solid sheets of steel across the top for about the same amount of money as it will cost to put MDO on it. The weight difference will only be about 75lbs.

My thought process is that the MDO will have to be sealed every few years, whereas if I put a good paint finish on the steel, it will last forever.

We bought this house 4 years ago and it has a mature apple and 3 mature pear trees. We've been spraying with NEEM oil every couple weeks, putting out moth and insect traps, and treating for ants, and it feels like not only are we not addressing the problem we're spraying for, but nee problems appear every day. Tonight I went out and looked and I think most of our fruit has already been ruined by codling moths.

Our only "success" story is that we used to have a 4th pear tree but it got fire blight so we pulled it out by the roots and that hasn't spread to any of the others.

I have a few friends who are wind turbine technicians and spend a significant portion of their workday in harnesses. Their employers have started talking about how constant usage of cheap, poorly fit, or awkwardly tethered harnesses can cause all kinds of issues such as back pain and blown out joints. They talk about how hip replacements are pretty common in their ranks and they think it's because of the way the straps pull down through your groin area.

Our trade is starting to see a lot of jobsites where the client or GC mandates harnesses anytime we're in a lift. On my newest jobsite they're also requiring we return all harnesses to a central cage for inspection on a daily basis, which means you often can't find the right size or have to refit the harness every day. On top of that the harnesses they're providing us aren't nearly as nice as the ones my friends in the wind industry receive.

So what's your take? Do the harnesses cause more harm than good? Do you feel fatigued, sore, or injured after spending a day wearing one?

Also, shout out to the guy wearing the Dying Fetus shirt I met while waiting for an Uber. You knew the venue staff by name, so I assume you're just into all kinds of music, but I'm glad you were there!

I can't find any info about an opener, so I assume there isn't one? Just trying to plan out dinner and stuff...