I got my eloquent-militant-hand because I like woodcarving and $8 for planks and some stuff I can use as veneer isn't bad. plus I'm lazy as hell and don't want to go buy shitty balsa wood at a craft store.
@HELLOALICE you're still alive! I'dn't seen you in a while and was getting the internet worries. The worst kind of worries, except for, you know, real worries.
@mehjohnson It's shitty as hell (which is partly why you haven't seen me, I can't afford any of this shit. Can't really afford $8 planks but I'll carve 'em and sell 'em for more). I heard back (negative) from two jobs I really wanted. I thought I'd secured a shitty minimum-wage job at a store down the street from me and the manager who was IN THE PROCESS of hiring me quit. Literally quit as I was peeing into a cup for a drug test at a clinic across town. FML.
@HELLOALICE Sorry to hear. Gotta piss for every stupid retail job now (their insurance co. probably,) else you might have got in before the quit. Good luck w the hunt.
Show some pics whenever you finish carving up the meh cedar.
NO. Just no. Buying these would also require me buying a grill...then getting off my lazy butt (in warmer weather) and lighting some charcoal and grilling something? No thanks, I prefer microwave meals....
Amazingribs.com, my go-to grilling Bible, had this to say in 2013: "And from a taste standpoint, meh. Every other method of cooking described on this site is superior"
@Stallion I thought I was good with the grill, but using the information on that site I have made a sucession of "best I've ever had" BBQ. Just including some 2-zone cooking and water pans has paid huge dividends. Also the use of a good, fast meat thermometer.
I've used the planks before and even if I soak the hell out of them they usually catch on fire. I'm still about to buy these just because I love grilling. Want a better idea? Start cooking with hardwood charcoal then tell me what tastes better. Hardwood charcoal is the greatest!
@devyanks90 LOL, just a few days ago I was cleaning out my kitchen cabinets and found a few of those woot planks in there. One full set still in the plastic wrap, so I went and checked, and it is the same company, TrueFire Gourmet.
@devyanks90 I actually purchased cedar planks from Woot years ago. Still have some left. Okay, I never used them, but don't let that sway anyone from buying them. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Loved the writeup, as it brought up fond reminders of buying my roadster in the middle of winter. Nobody wants lightweight, RWD convertible during early January… except me. So I got that thing cheap, cheap, cheap!
When I pulled up Meh tonight and saw the planks the first thing I thought was Woot is back! Trying to talk the wife into some. She says we can't afford it. I say home ownership is SO over-rated. Besides I still have gas in the tank for the grill.
I don't want to grill with these. Can I break them up and use them as cedar blocks to keep bugs out of dresser drawers containing little used clothes? Or are these somehow different than Just Plain Cedar? (For those who don't know, pieces of cedar can be used for that purpose.)
The only thing that I grilled on cedar planks was salmon. It was always a hit so I stocked up on planks. This is a good deal but with the cost of salmon (actually anything you can cook on the grill theses days) it's going to be a while before I need more planks.
Your logic for selling in winter doesn't make sense when you offer them to all the winter states at midnight and when we finally wake up and check meh.com they're SOLD OUT. Is your "Lab" going to ever do anything for the east side of the country?
I bought this crap from Woot! years ago, ....and, except for one plank that I used (but didn't have sufficient time to pre-soak), they're all sitting in the middle of a pile of shit in the garage. Woot!, however, had the bad taste to have their logo BRANDED onto each plank with a hot iron. It made the fish I grilled on the plank seem cheap and actually less flavorful. Good thing Meh doesn't seem to have branded the planks. I like my food to be exceptional, not mediocre.
@eyewerks I don't think I've ever had a cedar Christmas tree, but they are very popular in some areas, especially the Southeast. http://www.christmastreehome.com/redcedar Supposedly, when German immigrants brought the tradition of Christmas trees to the new country, they often used cedars because of availability, so the custom has a long history. I've also seen a lot of references to decorating with cedar boughs and wreaths because of the lovely fragrance (one of my favorite scents).
@gio The Eastern Red Cedar is actually in the juniper family, and not a true cedar at all. The Southeast is chuck full of hillbillies and other assorted backward folk that know no better. :)
@gio Apparently the welfare system in the south provides computers and internet access to cretins that don't know the difference between an actual cedar tree and a juniper.
Mine arrived yesterday and I just opened them up tonight. I am impressed at the price. They have a nice cedar smell, and the thin sheets look pretty cool.
The boards are definitely what I would call "Second grade", many with some type of knot or imperfection on both sides. I'd say 2 out of my 6 are near perfect. This doesn't bother me one bit since they burn and turn to crap after a use or two.
Compared to the ones I bought at Costco a while back for a comparable price, they definitely don't look as nice from a visual standpoint, but we'll see how they do cooking. My Costco ones had a fancy branded emblem in the corner, had rounded corners, and were longer so a big sized Costco salmon filet fit well. The downside was that no matter how long I soaked them they burned up after one use, and would sometimes catch fire early on in the cooking and I would be out there like a mad man putting water on it to stop it from burning completely.
@JonT I ended up taking the family out for a nice dinner Saturday night, and then ate over the in-laws on Sunday. I'll definitely get some salmon onto one of these boards soon.
I attempted to use the salmon planks on my propane grill & failed terribly today. I suspect if you want to use a gas grill, it should be rated well for indirect heating which mine is note. I then ran out of kindling for my fire-pit and, being perhaps 3 or 4 craft beers in, decided to use the most expensive small pieces of wood I could find. The bonfire was fragrant, briefly, but ultimately led to intense feelings of regret. Would I buy again? Absolutely.
@Thumperchick I did! for two hours. The plank shielded so much of the heat that the salmon was still not cooked nearly 30 minutes in & the plank was starting to look... kind of gross. Enjoyed mediocre salmon, lamented the passing of yet another grill - vowing to get one of quality next time - and acted out by burning the rest of the pieces as kindling. lol (meh! I need a grill!)
Specs
Instructions for Use
Condition: New
Warranty: 90 Day Mediocre
Estimated Delivery: 3/12 - 3/16
Shipping: $5 or free with VMP
What’s in the Box?
6x Cedar Planks
12x Cedar Wraps
12x Butcher’s Twine
1x Use and Recipe Card
Pictures
Cedar Pack
Grill
2 Pack Contents
Cedar Wraps
Price Check
$23.70 for three 2-packs of planks at Amazon
$8.50 for only 8 wraps at Amazon
$42.50 at Lowes (2 Trees)
10’ Western Red Cedar - $245
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Tuesday, July 7th - Monday, July 13th
Again? These were offered on a 2 for Tuesday for $18. https://meh.com/deals/truefire-cedar-planks-kit
Meh is getting boring with duplicates. If I didn't buy it the first time, I'm not going to buy it if it's offered a second time.
@cengland0 Well, once they but the stuff, they are going to keep offering it until they sell it all, ala jbl onbeat mini.
@cengland0 look on the bright side, they're $1 cheaper this time. ;)
@cengland0 This is one dollar cheaper guy! Also, you may have set your expectations a bit high for this website.
@jseay65 he's not your guy, pal.
@jrwofuga I'm not your pal, guy!
@jseay65 I'm not your pal, buddy.
@jrwofuga I'm not your buddy, guy!
@jseay65 end scene. Well played.
@jseay65 I'm not your friend, pal.
@jrwofuga buddy guy did play well, admittedly.
I live in Tucson. I grilled hamburgers for dinner in shorts and house slippers earlier today. Been meaning to try out some plank action.
Meh. Too cold. Plus can't have a grill at this apartment. Why couldn't we get something nice like neoprene or a speaker dock?
@sohmageek Perhaps because neoprene of speaker dock flavored salmon isn't good for your health?
@sohmageek o...m...g.... a neoprene speaker dock.... quick to the patent office!
Come on guys, you can't rip the shingles off your neighbors house and then sell them on your website.
@SteveOOO haaaaaaaaaaa!
@SteveOOO If Woot can dumpster dive for their BOCs than Meh can sell their neighbor's shingles. There, I said it.
@Mehrocco_Mole The truth hurts.
wood you believe I ran out of puns?
@Thumperchick I cedar what you did there!
@Thumperchick I've got nothing but a plank stare reaction to that comment
Time to make like a tree and get out of here.
@Thumperchick planks for nothing!
@Thumperchick I wooden have expected that from you, I'm stumped.
@Stallion I'm not trying to go against the grain here, but I saw these puns coming from a mile away.
@Thumperchick - We all call you 'funny grill'.
@Thumperchick - Today's deal isn't just grate, it's a gas!
@jseay65 Wow, for not having any puns this sure is a poplar thread, i'm holly impressed!
@Stallion these puns really spruce up the place; they have me pining for more!
@jseay65 @Thumperchick I'm rooting for you all, but a few of yew are poor saps.
@Stallion burn!
@Thumperchick can we please leaf it alone now? I'm really getting board with these.
@Thumperchick Now you are just making an Ash of yourself
@Thumperchick Groot is not amused.
@Stallion you're all bark and no bite.
I got my eloquent-militant-hand because I like woodcarving and $8 for planks and some stuff I can use as veneer isn't bad. plus I'm lazy as hell and don't want to go buy shitty balsa wood at a craft store.
@HELLOALICE you're still alive! I'dn't seen you in a while and was getting the internet worries. The worst kind of worries, except for, you know, real worries.
HELLO@HELLOALICE! How's the job hunt? Hope you had some luck. I'm doing it, too.
@mehjohnson It's shitty as hell (which is partly why you haven't seen me, I can't afford any of this shit. Can't really afford $8 planks but I'll carve 'em and sell 'em for more). I heard back (negative) from two jobs I really wanted. I thought I'd secured a shitty minimum-wage job at a store down the street from me and the manager who was IN THE PROCESS of hiring me quit. Literally quit as I was peeing into a cup for a drug test at a clinic across town. FML.
@brhfl Aw, man!! I didn't know anyone cared. <3 I'm alive and well as can be.
@HELLOALICE Sorry to hear. Gotta piss for every stupid retail job now (their insurance co. probably,) else you might have got in before the quit. Good luck w the hunt.
Show some pics whenever you finish carving up the meh cedar.
@HELLOALICE Off the coast of Angola. http://map.what3words.com/eloquent-militant-hand
So it has come to this; Meh is literally selling the sizzle instead of the steak.
@Superjimtendo Yeah, I love Meh and everything, but I prolly wouldn't buy steaks from them....
@gregormehndel "Two for Tuesday: Probably all beef steaks"
Meh meh meh meh meh WHEN WILL I USE THIS I AM A VEGETARIAN!!!
@legendornothing grill vegetables
@legendornothing Cook peppers in the wraps. Be imaginative with grillable fruits like pineapple.
@legendornothing the planks are vegan and high in fiber
@TerriblyHuang The cedar trees were fertilized with manure.... an animal product.....
@legendornothing These are vegan. I would assume they're high in fiber too. Edit: shit, someone beat me to it. ;(
@legendornothing Take up wood carving like @helloalice.
@legendornothing Trees are plants, not animals.
@legendornothing You can cook asparagus in the veneer pieces. And portobello mushrooms on the planks. Yum! I'm making myself hungry.
@thismyusername And fish are friends, not food.
@thechinglish Yeah calm down stop yelling.
@v Your friends can be pretty tasty, especially when they are cooked on cedar planks.
in!
mouthy hanging bamboo!
@ekw Sudan! http://map.what3words.com/mouthy.hanging.bamboo
Does the warranty cover fire damage?
@mjburgess I am guessing if you receive bubinga planks instead of cedar planks, that would be covered, but guessing fire damage is not ;)
Hit the sweet spot
but, thanks meh, my grill works fine without your wood
@tentalces1349 C'mon! Everything works better with meh's wood.
47th parallel and it was 50 degrees today, perfectly good shorts and grilling weather.
Ugh. Stop making it easy to spend money. Seriously. <3
NO. Just no. Buying these would also require me buying a grill...then getting off my lazy butt (in warmer weather) and lighting some charcoal and grilling something? No thanks, I prefer microwave meals....
@SavvySapphire Microwave meals? Seriously?
@SavvySapphire You can set the food on the wood in the microwave, or just kick the planks between bites for all the wood flavor you can handle.
Amazingribs.com, my go-to grilling Bible, had this to say in 2013:
"And from a taste standpoint, meh. Every other method of cooking described on this site is superior"
They saw you coming, meh!
@givemeyoursoul That site is no joke! Thanks for sharing! I can see myself grilling in the soon future in below freezing temps:)
@Stallion I thought I was good with the grill, but using the information on that site I have made a sucession of "best I've ever had" BBQ. Just including some 2-zone cooking and water pans has paid huge dividends. Also the use of a good, fast meat thermometer.
Timing not too bad- the big pink run is coming this summer and there will be plenty of fish to grill..
I want this, but I would have wanted it more if Meh had a grill deal the day before.
You know, it's been a while since I bought something I might use, but don't really need...
ageless-cagey-poppy
@Thumperchick Congo. http://map.what3words.com/ageless-cagey-poppy
Uh, Can these be used over and over again or are they one use thin chunks of timber?
@unkabob My last set was crap after one use, all burned up but I might buy these anyways and try again.
@unkabob the deal page description says "Recommended for one use per plank, but you can probably get a couple out of each one"
@thismyusername ... Thanks.
@Stallion ... Think I'll pass, thanks.
Always wanted to try cedar plank salmon. Thanks for making it cheap & easy meh!
Fixed-dumb-spinach for me. Yep - fixed with delicious fish!
I've used the planks before and even if I soak the hell out of them they usually catch on fire. I'm still about to buy these just because I love grilling. Want a better idea? Start cooking with hardwood charcoal then tell me what tastes better. Hardwood charcoal is the greatest!
The only planks worthy of cooking my meats...
I was digging through some boxes yesterday and I found some woot-branded planks I got in a BOC long ago. Wonder if it's the same company.
@devyanks90 LOL, just a few days ago I was cleaning out my kitchen cabinets and found a few of those woot planks in there. One full set still in the plastic wrap, so I went and checked, and it is the same company, TrueFire Gourmet.
@devyanks90 I actually purchased cedar planks from Woot years ago. Still have some left. Okay, I never used them, but don't let that sway anyone from buying them. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Meh. I don't want my food tasting like a hipster's closet.
This would (wood pun already used by @Thumperchick above) definitely be worth 8 bucks if there were enough cedar to line my sauna.
No Georgia Red. . . for that alone, meh.
Can't wait for the obligatory "I got wood" posts when these things deliver.
I love grilling, and lately we've been on a health kick and eating a lot of Salmon. I'm in!
redundant-anterior-ocean
@Stallion North of Madagascar. (zoom out) http://map.what3words.com/redundant-anterior-ocean
meh.com hits bottom; digs.
@unixrab thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Loved the writeup, as it brought up fond reminders of buying my roadster in the middle of winter. Nobody wants lightweight, RWD convertible during early January… except me. So I got that thing cheap, cheap, cheap!
@brhfl The louder the salesman yells the word CHEAP, the more worried you should be
When I pulled up Meh tonight and saw the planks the first thing I thought was Woot is back! Trying to talk the wife into some. She says we can't afford it. I say home ownership is SO over-rated. Besides I still have gas in the tank for the grill.
500 Sold bell is about to ring, Woot Woot!
I don't want to grill with these. Can I break them up and use them as cedar blocks to keep bugs out of dresser drawers containing little used clothes? Or are these somehow different than Just Plain Cedar?
(For those who don't know, pieces of cedar can be used for that purpose.)
@ojohn cedar is cedar, nothing special either way, it's just bits of wood.
Ceder is among the worst teasing of woods. But I do happen to carry a free sample of the best tasting wood on my person at all times.
This is going to be some pretty parasitic-dashing-antelope ey salmon.
dam it, i want one so bad, but my family is tired of me bringing home random crap lol
I always wanted to try Cedar Planks. Interesting website
The only thing that I grilled on cedar planks was salmon. It was always a hit so I stocked up on planks. This is a good deal but with the cost of salmon (actually anything you can cook on the grill theses days) it's going to be a while before I need more planks.
I'm one of those odd balls that is going to grill today. Ive always wanted to try these out too.
@Kevin
@Kevin look at all the cooling areas for beers!
@thismyusername yeah. The snow was super useful!
Should have could have. Sold out. Damn!
@readnj is 700 the plank constant or the max plank?
Yes, I know it's Planck
@TerriblyHuang I don't have the energy to comment on that...
Sold out, thank goodness. Now we shouldn't have to worry about these showing up again.
@cengland0 - They don't last forever, maybe people wanted more. (Personally, I don't like the flavor of cedar).
Your logic for selling in winter doesn't make sense when you offer them to all the winter states at midnight and when we finally wake up and check meh.com they're SOLD OUT. Is your "Lab" going to ever do anything for the east side of the country?
@dccreatn I thought they were based on the east side which is why the "deal a day" time actually flips at the beginning of a new day.
This is pure-d "meh" of the highest order. Good to see they are sold out...hopefully this will fade to just a painful memory...:)
I bought this crap from Woot! years ago, ....and, except for one plank that I used (but didn't have sufficient time to pre-soak), they're all sitting in the middle of a pile of shit in the garage. Woot!, however, had the bad taste to have their logo BRANDED onto each plank with a hot iron. It made the fish I grilled on the plank seem cheap and actually less flavorful. Good thing Meh doesn't seem to have branded the planks. I like my food to be exceptional, not mediocre.
If I wanted to grill on a slab of cedar I'd just rip a shake off the neighbor's house.
@eyewerks shingle? Autocorrect FTL.
@PocketBrain a "shake" is a wooden shingle used for roofing or siding purposes. "Shingle" is so old-school asphalt.
@eyewerks aww cool. The more you know...
@eyewerks What do you call the plastic shingles?
@StrangerDanger Artificial herpes.
Nice work, Mr. Toon.
You're supposed to soak them in water, but if you forget and they catch fire, everything smells like Christmas!
If you forgot to keep the tree hydrated and your light string had an electrical fault.
@PocketBrain I don't think many of us bring Cedar trees into our homes for the holidays. Your logic isn't.
@eyewerks Christmasy!!
@eyewerks I don't think I've ever had a cedar Christmas tree, but they are very popular in some areas, especially the Southeast. http://www.christmastreehome.com/redcedar Supposedly, when German immigrants brought the tradition of Christmas trees to the new country, they often used cedars because of availability, so the custom has a long history. I've also seen a lot of references to decorating with cedar boughs and wreaths because of the lovely fragrance (one of my favorite scents).
@gio The Eastern Red Cedar is actually in the juniper family, and not a true cedar at all. The Southeast is chuck full of hillbillies and other assorted backward folk that know no better. :)
@eyewerks And the internet is full of trolls who make ignorant generalizations about people.
@gio Apparently the welfare system in the south provides computers and internet access to cretins that don't know the difference between an actual cedar tree and a juniper.
Mine arrived yesterday and I just opened them up tonight. I am impressed at the price. They have a nice cedar smell, and the thin sheets look pretty cool.
The boards are definitely what I would call "Second grade", many with some type of knot or imperfection on both sides. I'd say 2 out of my 6 are near perfect. This doesn't bother me one bit since they burn and turn to crap after a use or two.
Compared to the ones I bought at Costco a while back for a comparable price, they definitely don't look as nice from a visual standpoint, but we'll see how they do cooking. My Costco ones had a fancy branded emblem in the corner, had rounded corners, and were longer so a big sized Costco salmon filet fit well. The downside was that no matter how long I soaked them they burned up after one use, and would sometimes catch fire early on in the cooking and I would be out there like a mad man putting water on it to stop it from burning completely.
Maybe i'll use one this weekend.
Was a good deal for $8 I'd say.
@Stallion thanks for coming back with an initial review, how did the grilling go?
@JonT I ended up taking the family out for a nice dinner Saturday night, and then ate over the in-laws on Sunday. I'll definitely get some salmon onto one of these boards soon.
Hey I ordered the cedar planks but you guys accidentally sent me the cedar planks.
I attempted to use the salmon planks on my propane grill & failed terribly today. I suspect if you want to use a gas grill, it should be rated well for indirect heating which mine is note. I then ran out of kindling for my fire-pit and, being perhaps 3 or 4 craft beers in, decided to use the most expensive small pieces of wood I could find. The bonfire was fragrant, briefly, but ultimately led to intense feelings of regret. Would I buy again? Absolutely.
@march5th00 Did you soak them first? I've heard that helps a lot.
@Thumperchick I did! for two hours. The plank shielded so much of the heat that the salmon was still not cooked nearly 30 minutes in & the plank was starting to look... kind of gross. Enjoyed mediocre salmon, lamented the passing of yet another grill - vowing to get one of quality next time - and acted out by burning the rest of the pieces as kindling. lol (meh! I need a grill!)
@march5th00 I hope it works better for you next time!