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That looks pretty nasty, huh?

I think enough has been written about the cast iron cookware over the last 40 years. Letting the world know how great it is, is getting old. I can tell you cast iron cookware means everything to me though. I use it more often than any other fry pan or stew pot in the kitchen. Not only does it go from stove top to oven in a winky blink, but it responds to love and tenderness. There's no other pan in my kitchen that responds to lard and seasoning like cast iron. It only gets better over time and will virtually last forever. Unless it gets thrown on a shelf, on the back porch, for more than 20 years. Just look at this Wagner Ware Sidney 12" fry pan with 2" sides. It's nearly an antique and shows every second of it. I was lucky enough to rescue this, 3 other smaller ones and a gorgeous single burner griddle as well. The 12" was the worst of the bunch.

Time to get to work.

I was perusing the net a few weeks ago and ran across a mention of Lenspen. I've had problems cleaning pork fat off my camera lenses for the last however many years and decided to give it a try. Jeez, it was only 15 bux, what the hell?

Chapter 1

Not everyone has some fancy root cellar that keeps our tubers and garlic fresh for the future. Some of us are relegated to use whatever we have handy. This could be, the floor. A bin in a pantry, under some stairs or wherever we have room. Up until semi-recently, I was among you. Today? Times have changed.

Chapter 2

How many times have you gone to bed with garlic hands? Every few hours you're all woked up by the pungeant smell of garlic on yer hands. Need solice?

Venture within to have a little project and hint time with Biggles.

I heard rumors about this grill a while back and ever since it's been rattlin' in the back of mind. It wasn't until the other day when CB sent me the link to Woodflame's web site that I said, "THAT'S IT !!!"

Why am I so excited about a portable grill that I don't own and have never seen or used? It's because it uses wood and not propane. Oh, I know what you're thinking. Weber and the likes have been making portable charcoal fired grills for more than a million years. So why is this different from your humble Smokey Joe?

It's got this little "stove" that jets air UP through a few small chunks of hardwood and cooks your food this way.

You can cook an entire meal with just a few small hunks and get this (listen up propane lovers), you're ready start grilling in just 2 minutes. I'm not sure, but I'll bet a propane grill ain't even ready to cook that fast. The owners manual says the Delecto model has 9 fan settings, so you can go from just a little fire (designed for smoking) up to a flame that'll deliver you over 60k btu's, that's a lot by the way. It's enough to deep fry and boil water and apparently this little rig does just that. So, not only do you get a wood burning grill & smoker, but you also get a very powerful portable stove.

That all sounds so good, what could possibly be the downside to this little rig? Well, you're tied to electricity. The Delecto uses 4 D cell batteries and you can get an AC adapter for it. But after thinking about it for a few days I don't think that's a deal breaker. Modern electric motor technology has come a long way and I'll bet you get some decent life out of those batteries. And besides, what would you rather lug around? 4 extra batteries or one of those steel propane tanks? I'd vote for the batteries and real smoke flavors.

Why don't I buy one cause my grill is nearly ready to fall over and die? Why did I not hit BUY NOW the other day? It isn't large enough for my needs. I need a grill about 3 to 5 times that size for my yearly needs. So, my search continues. But yours doesn't have to. If I didn't need such a large grill, I'd buy this in a second. Woodflame looks to be a small company attempting to make it out in the big scary world. I say Kudos to the geniuses that brought us this little grill. Thank you so much for not making another damned propane grill.

Biggles

ps - Please visit their web site for a far better description, user manuals and dealer locations.

Woodflame

6155 Des Grandes-Prairies Blvd.
Montreal (Québec), Canada
H1P 1A5

Telephone : 514 328-2929
Tol free: 1 888 664-6966
Fax : (514) 328-0029

We find our plucky Biggles hard at work, doing what he does to pay the bills. When Creepy E walks in and tosses this down on his desk. A Yan Can Cook vegetable cleaver with a nasty notch taken out of it. He laughs and says that I can have it, it's mine. I'm turning this thing over and over thinking, "What the hell?"
It turns out, he thinks he was cutting meat with it and got to the bone and I finished the sentance with, "and you wrenched it to the side to unembed it from the bone, didn't you?" PING !!!

I wanted to take a moment and say Thank you to Jim over at Mercuri Litho for gifting me his unused 5 quart cast iron dutch oven with a nice glass lid. I gleefully accepted and ran to my butcher for a fresh chicken. Later that afternoon I had time to scrub it clean (semi cured oil of unknown age was in it), dry it, cure it and roast a chicken in it!! An upside down chicken roasting method was used.

If you've been looking for a decent sized chef's knife, 10.25" blade, then
look no longer. I was perusing ebay and found this rig for sale. It has a buy it now at about 50 bux. This knife was made pre-1987 and does NOT used recycled steel as with today's knives. Go see now!

Here's a shot of that fancy trivet I keep mentioning. I've had a handful of messages from people asking about it. What is it? Where do I find it? Well, here it is and I bought mine from www.lodgemfg.com for a few dollars. But any wire rack will do, our local Ace Hardware has little round trivets for a few dollars that will last a life time.

If you've been looking for a 10" cook's knife but not found what you want
at the local five and dime, please take a look at this find. The price can't be beat for such a nice older rig such as this:
CLICK HERE

If you've been looking for a medium sized (8.25" blade) carbon steel chef's knife, GO HERE! It goes off auction in a few days so hurry.

Is it a bomb? Is it some kind of Euro style spy attaché? Is it a Sharper Image Retro Repro radio?

NOPE!

It's a weddin' gift from Uncle. Look at that! I'll be shameless and stainless while flippin' 'gers and poppin' brewskies. Drop a weiner? Wait, I got that *tong*. Does yer back itch? Try this *scritch scritch* Do yer pickles need pokin' *boi-oi-oi-oi-oing!!!* LOOK MA! I CAN PAINT THE RIBS RED!

Me an Mz. Meathead are gonna have hours of fun pokin' the untensils into our little Smokey Joe. "OPEN WIDE JOEY, This is gonna hust you more than it hurts me!" Haah haah haah haaaaa!!!