Thread: What did you do in your Man Cave / Femme Den today?

...........or found in Sydney Harbour!

Divers struck gold when they found World War II Japanese submarine

Thanks for that Saitch. That bus did make a really bad detour after all didn't it? Struck Gold? I hope there is no active Munitions on board when they all go rushing in & one ponders whether all munitions were accounted for by Japan?.

"OOPS!" How did we sink that Cruise Ship? C'mon guys, who touched what,own up?

I take it that the smoker is a hot smoker for cooking not a cold smoker for preserving? I have had it in mind for a few years now to make a cold smoker as I can't find a butcher who still does mutton hams, or pork hams that don't need refrigeration. Likewise bacon today needs to be refrigerated or frozen to keep. When I was a boy and lived in Winton we used to get a side of bacon in stockinette sent up on the train in the luggage van and hung up in the shade on the veranda.

I used to see those behind the Grocer's counter, but this poor little bastard's parents couldn't afford the Bacon but we used to call in on the way home from school & ask for Bacon Bones to nibble on.

Try that today & they'd boot you out or charge you a motza for a few bones, but they were nice.

Originally Posted by 4bee

I used to see those behind the Grocer's counter, but this poor little bastard's parents couldn't afford the Bacon but we used to call in on the way home from school & ask for Bacon Bones to nibble on.

Try that today & they'd boot you out or charge you a motza for a few bones, but they were nice.

Used to get them to make soup. Penneys sold them for 2/- pound. Pig's trotters are $2 each at a local butcher. They were also sold at Penneys four for 1/-. When I was pulling a company fridge trailer and used to pull pork carcases and product out of Kingaroy works and KR in Toowoomba bacon and ham hocks were in bins waiting to go in the digester for blood and bone. I would select a dozen or so nice big meaty ones to take home. Pea and ham soup and bbq'd on the char grill. Sometimes I would give a big bag of them to Mum's Sicilian neighbours. They made brawn or diced them into their home made salamis. Lovely tucker. Now they are sold for $6 kilo and up.

Yeah, neighbour has a bus. Traded it for a car or something, and it's a home to feral cats now. I've trapped 17 of them to date.

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

I take it that the smoker is a hot smoker for cooking not a cold smoker for preserving?

Yeah hot smoker.
I was feeding it timber yesterday, and all I managed was about 400F, or approx 200 celsius.
So it's not 'hot' by oven standards, but plenty for smoking.
For me, the magic happens at approx 120 degrees C. Over the course of 6-12 hours.

There are cold smoking devices that can be bought/made, and are not too convoluted. For all intents and purposes, even an old filing cabinet could be used for a cold smoker.

Yeah, neighbour has a bus. Traded it for a car or something, and it's a home to feral cats now. I've trapped 17 of them to date.

Sounds like the Bus needs a Molotov put through the window. Job done.



I can remember those words even now, "Got any bacon bones Mister?" Never got a twisted lughole for that one.

Broken fancy biscuits out of the glassed in displays were another request stop. It really was a case of "win some, lose some". It depended which generous or mingy bastard was serving that afternoon.


"Got any Gum Chum" was another hummer job which we would ask Soldiers & Yanks in uniform in the street during WW2. Yanks always had some & were quite generous with that 'strappy type' Wrigleys.


Ah, happy days.

Put a larger awning on the front of the bee hotel.
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