Relax and wait it out. You are still well within safe burning temps. Later, add a flue damper if you want more control on cold days. My...
And the Bills are in the playoffs. Coincidence? I think not!
I don’t think it does. The stove puts out less heat in the coal stage. When less cold that is still enough and we let the coals burn down. When...
You know something ain’t right when it is 15 degrees warmer in Alaska than western NY! Probably related to the whole hell freezing over/Bills...
He was missing the food and beverage...or maybe he just didn’t share with us. :D
If you’re home and willing to feed it, less wood and more open dampers allows you to keep the heat up, glass clean, and coal pile down. I am not...
43 and missed exactly the same two. Didn’t have the slightest clue on those.
Ice is a good insulator. If you have a heater underneath, once the pond freezes over, the heat loss is reduced significantly and the fish will be...
Stick burners have a different flavor profile to the smoke, and they tend to have more airflow. I prefer the results from the stick burner in the...
Lake effect snow is not always much of a storm. Winds are often light with a LOT of large snowflakes falling gently. Visibility can go to nil in a...
Double fry is THE way to go for extra crispy delicious wings. I do the first fry at a little lower temp and in higher volume. You can then put...
I am not old enough to have seen any in use, but all the ice houses around here were above ground brick warehouses. Never hear of an in ground one.
The metal spring thermometers are notoriously inaccurate. Trust the IR gun.
BOILED wings though? YUCK!
You make me feel good about my photography skills.
Well, if you are in B-lo, you want more mass, and a party... I say surround the stove with a vat of oil and fry some wings while you are at it....
I am about an hour west and we only got a couple inches max. Looking at a possible 5-9” tonight, but lake effect is often very localized and a...
Today is National Bacon Day. This was smoked in warmer weather, but today it gets a natural gas griddle. [ATTACH]
Still sitting flat around $195 a cord for split “seasoned” hard wood around Rochester NY. The supply is quite healthy due to the ash borers and a...
Here are pictures of the soffet and one of the bedroom fans. First shows the soffet, the secon is a close up of the slit along the edge where it...
