@mediocrebot
/showme a chef in shorts, cowboy hat, and cowboy boots grilling in a snowstorm on a 3-burner grill and label it “Texas Grillin’” and label it “Texas Grillin’” and mark it “Copyright phendrick, February 2026”
@phendrick@PhysAssist just need some cowboy-looking guys sitting around a campfire cooking beans, as in Blazing Saddles. My late brother-in-law said as a kid he always laughed at that scene and the resulting fart jokes. Even older, I think he still loved it.
Also, I can always predict SWMBO’s laughter in the course of any event- movie, skit, TV show, clip, etc.- as long as it includes farts fart jokes, or references to farting.,
@phendrick@sillyheathen Could be what you said, or two only semi related statements. "He typically grills twice a week, but last night he immersion cooked lamb. "
Seems a lot of work to me to heat the grill up just to sear something- but if you’re passionate about doing the absolute best cooking you can… I can’t think of anything better than meat that’s been sous-vide and then seared on the grill.
Which reminds me, I need to get my immersion cooker out of it’s retirement… cooked the best meats and used it like crazy for a few years but haven’t touched it in a while.
@OnionSoup@phendrick@sillyheathen
If you don’t throw your meat from the sous-vide either onto a grill or a sizzling hot skillet you miss the majority of the flavor (which comes from the maillard reaction). It’s a gas grill so it’s no big deal to get it warmed up. If I want to get really fancy I’ll use my “flamethrower” AKA weed burning gas appliance.
Personally I would consider a piece of meat directly from the sous vide to be inedible.
And yes, sous vide to 131 degrees then a total of about 5 minutes on a super hot grill. It was quite yummy!
@chienfou@phendrick@sillyheathen lol yes, but you’re far more dedicated than I if you heat the grill up just to sear the meat. In a pan is enough effort for me.
@OnionSoup@phendrick@sillyheathen
I feel it’s well worth the effort since the grill is just outside the back door off the dining room area and the flavor difference is one I really like. I can go out there and sear the meat with no smoke in the house while my wife is finishing up getting veggies ready, putting salads on the table etc.
I’d grill year round, but I have at least one child who can’t help but mess with the grill and its constituent parts if I leave it in a place that’s at all reachable, so it’s in the garage, unused, most of the time.
When the weather becomes inclement, but the food is already prepped for the grill, we just position the grill at the apron [or on the threshold of the roll-up door] of the barn/garage to limit interference from the wind and/or wind-driven rain or snow.
It does often require longer grilling times because of the lower ambient temperatures [kind of like the effects of wind chill on living organisms].
However, using the smoker can be more difficult because of the indirect heating it requires/uses.
@PhysAssist
I remember one time growing up Dad had the bright idea to put a duck out on the rotisserie on the barbecue. It was in the winter in St Louis with snow on the ground and the BBQ was close to the sliding glass door at the back of the house. Due to the fat content of a duck that turned out to be a less than stellar idea. Once the fat started melting and it dropped on the burners it flared up and shot flames almost to the soffit. Thankfully we were able to extinguish the little meteor-looking duck and salvage it by peeling all the burnt skin off and finishing it in the oven.
As for my smoker … it’s electric, so I can plug it up protected from the wind and it does fine even around freezing. Of course I’m in Central AL so that’s not too often, even in winter. (Safety note: use a heavy duty extension cord)
@capnjb
This is the way…
(That also looks like about the level of clothing I would use in that scenario. My wife would look like the Nanook of the North or the Michelin Man by the time she got all her layers on just to step outside to check the mail.)
@chienfou@Kyeh@phendrick@xobzoo You do know I wear a cowboy hat every day, right? And boots. And for my mid-life crisis, I’m not getting a corvette. I’m thinking about getting a kilt
Leather boots, a proper kilt and a cowboy hat. I’m going to need to carry a shillelagh to keep the women away
@Kyeh Have I told you about my Vader build? I just feel bad when my 3D printer isn’t doing anything. I feel like it’s just saying, I want to play. Kind of like my dog. Heh… I even leave the lights on for my Roomba because I feel bad about it cleaning my kitchen in the dark. I’ve got a weird brain
@capnjb@Kyeh
Wow. Those are great. 25 yrs ago my son had a friend (same one that built our railing for the loft) who used to hand make stormtrooper outfits from Sintra (I think). He and a buddy had a flourishing business online. They would buy sheets of material, cut it to the patterns they had created, then heat it and mold it around forms they had designed and built. It was a pretty niche market but they did all right for themselves for quite a while.
I even leave the lights on for my Roomba because I feel bad about it cleaning my kitchen in the dark. I’ve got a weird brain
You’re an animist! A Japanese American friend of mine says she can’t throw something away without apologizing to to it, etc. It’s kind of a Shinto view of things - everything has a spirit of sorts. I totally get it.
But remember, @kyeh, this is the new mediocrebot. Remember when they changed it a few months ago and the new one started creating way different images for our order names/“numbers”? I thought that was because the old one was an a-hole.
@Kyeh
No, I already have a tabletop propane grill, a wood pellet smoker and an offset firebox charcoal smoker.
My brother-in-law gifted me our nephew’s wood pellet smoker after he died because he [my B-I-L] wasn’t going to use it.
Our nephew died on 9/11/20 due to self-induced asphyxiation and depression- ironically after starting Zoloft the week before- unfortunately, the black box warning was prophetic.
@Kyeh@PhysAssist
I have a fold-up grill sort of like this one, but the main part is V-shaped instead of box-shaped. The problem with mine and the one here is that the grill height is not adjustable and the grill is just too damn close to the hot coals to not burn things. Yes, I could make a smaller bed of coals, but then I’d have to reserve one end for adding coals and burning them down before pushing them to the cooking side.
What I really want is the Snow Peak Takibi grill
but it’s outrageously expensive ($320!) like most Snow Peak stuff. I’m sure it’s the usual high quality Snow Peak is known for. I did see a knock-off for $100 in a social media ad, so I’ll have to check that out.
It looks like you could [if materials and skillset are apropos] make some extensions for the height adjustment uprights to get some further distance from the coals.
I looked at the Snow Peak merch and you’re right, it’s pretty pricey.
@Kyeh@PhysAssist I’m sure I could make a grill height-adjustable frame, but I’m working on so many other projects right now that I don’t want to take this on, especially if it involved (likely it would) either welding or brazing.
The few Snow Peak things I do own I got either used our on some sort of special sale. The Snow Peak US flagship store in Portland, Oregon is way cool, by the way!
Yeah. Looks to me like the folded-up part could be only 1 cm thick and the grill is probably only 1 cm thick, but the tray sure isn’t. The carrying bag reveals the truth, though. This calls for the Spanish Inquisition! No one expects that!
I would be if I had a grill.
@yakkoTDI I thought you had a trunk full of them.
(Oh, “grill”… never mind)
/showme a chef in shorts and cowboy boots grilling in a snowstorm and label it “Texas Grillin’”
@mediocrebot wrong hat, but nice snow
@mediocrebot
/showme a chef in shorts, cowboy hat, and cowboy boots grilling in a snowstorm on a 3-burner grill and label it “Texas Grillin’” and label it “Texas Grillin’” and mark it “Copyright phendrick, February 2026”
@mediocrebot There ya go, 'cept couldn’t bother to predate it?
I wanted to prove my prescience/anticipation to my friends…
@phendrick Chef Cowboyardee.
@phendrick
But how would you know he was a chef if he were wearing say, a western hat, [e.g., Stetson] instead of the iconic chef’s hat?
Your redux looks like a cowboy in his boxers and a white dress shirt grilling in an apron…
@phendrick @PhysAssist just need some cowboy-looking guys sitting around a campfire cooking beans, as in Blazing Saddles. My late brother-in-law said as a kid he always laughed at that scene and the resulting fart jokes. Even older, I think he still loved it.
@phendrick @pmarin
Also, I can always predict SWMBO’s laughter in the course of any event- movie, skit, TV show, clip, etc.- as long as it includes farts fart jokes, or references to farting.,
@phendrick @PhysAssist @pmarin Has she seen this?
@Kyeh @phendrick @pmarin
She has now!
Thanks!
@Kyeh @phendrick @pmarin
As I predicted, giggles, guffaws, and hilarity ensued.
She also said thank you!
@phendrick @PhysAssist @pmarin Glad I could provide some merriment!
Like, outside? No, and I never have.
@kittykat9180
Bless your pea pickin’ heart
LOL
me neither, at least not in over 50 years
@Cerridwyn your comment totally reminded me of pig pickin’ cake and now I want to make one.
@Cerridwyn @kittykat9180 just come to Oregon and I’ll grill for you!
@Cerridwyn @kittykat9180
What is pig pickin’ cake?
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/8043/pig-pickin-cake/
@sillyheathen
I take my steak medium well.
@Cerridwyn @kittykat9180 That cake sounds delicious!
@Cerridwyn @kittykat9180 @Kyeh I think I have actually had that cake without knowing it had a name.
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh I love it!!
Sous vide butterflied leg of lamb last night. Typically grill at least a couple times a week year 'round.
You sous-vide’d on a grill?
Please elucidate, including how you control the temperature.
@phendrick I would guess he sous vide it and then seared it on the grill.
@phendrick @sillyheathen Could be what you said, or two only semi related statements. "He typically grills twice a week, but last night he immersion cooked lamb. "
Seems a lot of work to me to heat the grill up just to sear something- but if you’re passionate about doing the absolute best cooking you can… I can’t think of anything better than meat that’s been sous-vide and then seared on the grill.
Which reminds me, I need to get my immersion cooker out of it’s retirement… cooked the best meats and used it like crazy for a few years but haven’t touched it in a while.
@OnionSoup @phendrick @sillyheathen
If you don’t throw your meat from the sous-vide either onto a grill or a sizzling hot skillet you miss the majority of the flavor (which comes from the maillard reaction). It’s a gas grill so it’s no big deal to get it warmed up. If I want to get really fancy I’ll use my “flamethrower” AKA weed burning gas appliance.
Personally I would consider a piece of meat directly from the sous vide to be inedible.
And yes, sous vide to 131 degrees then a total of about 5 minutes on a super hot grill. It was quite yummy!
@chienfou @phendrick @sillyheathen lol yes, but you’re far more dedicated than I if you heat the grill up just to sear the meat. In a pan is enough effort for me.
@OnionSoup @phendrick @sillyheathen
I feel it’s well worth the effort since the grill is just outside the back door off the dining room area and the flavor difference is one I really like. I can go out there and sear the meat with no smoke in the house while my wife is finishing up getting veggies ready, putting salads on the table etc.
@chienfou @OnionSoup @phendrick Maillard principles!!! I always knew I liked you chienfou!
I’d grill year round, but I have at least one child who can’t help but mess with the grill and its constituent parts if I leave it in a place that’s at all reachable, so it’s in the garage, unused, most of the time.
No, I stopped grilling when my food was cooked.
@OnionSoup
When the weather becomes inclement, but the food is already prepped for the grill, we just position the grill at the apron [or on the threshold of the roll-up door] of the barn/garage to limit interference from the wind and/or wind-driven rain or snow.
It does often require longer grilling times because of the lower ambient temperatures [kind of like the effects of wind chill on living organisms].
However, using the smoker can be more difficult because of the indirect heating it requires/uses.
@PhysAssist
I remember one time growing up Dad had the bright idea to put a duck out on the rotisserie on the barbecue. It was in the winter in St Louis with snow on the ground and the BBQ was close to the sliding glass door at the back of the house. Due to the fat content of a duck that turned out to be a less than stellar idea. Once the fat started melting and it dropped on the burners it flared up and shot flames almost to the soffit. Thankfully we were able to extinguish the little meteor-looking duck and salvage it by peeling all the burnt skin off and finishing it in the oven.
As for my smoker … it’s electric, so I can plug it up protected from the wind and it does fine even around freezing. Of course I’m in Central AL so that’s not too often, even in winter. (Safety note: use a heavy duty extension cord)
@chienfou
@PhysAssist honestly, in the Southeast, the weather is better for the grill in spring, autumn, even winter than it is in the summer.
/showme a cat about to BBQ a penguin but it’s trying to fly away
@mediocrebot I think I saw some trivia recently that the penguin was the only bird that swims, but cannot fly. Maybe if you put a fire under it?
@pmarin
PossiblyPawsibly from anything with heat./showme a penguin trying to fly away from an oven while a cat chef looks on in disbelief
Never have.
Ain’t nothing going to keep me from the grill
I shovel the deck before I shovel the walk 
@capnjb
This is the way…
(That also looks like about the level of clothing I would use in that scenario. My wife would look like the Nanook of the North or the Michelin Man by the time she got all her layers on just to step outside to check the mail.)
@chienfou This is the way
And grills do actually create heat 
@chienfou Heck I even roast in the rain
@capnjb
I’ll pull my smoker up under the short porch roof I have to protect the French doors that go to the deck. Makes the whole house smell amazing.
@chienfou
@capnjb–Did you see the name @xobzoo bestowed on @phendrick above - “Chef Cowboyardee”?
@chienfou @Kyeh @phendrick @xobzoo You do know I wear a cowboy hat every day, right?
And boots. 
And for my mid-life crisis, I’m not getting a corvette. I’m thinking about getting a kilt 
Leather boots, a proper kilt and a cowboy hat. I’m going to need to carry a shillelagh to keep the women away
@capnjb @chienfou @Kyeh @phendrick @xobzoo
Naw, you need a claymore!
…or maybe one of these:
?
They have a full line of “tools”, but so far the only thing I have from them is a “ZT” logo hat.
[https://zombietools.net/]
@chienfou @Kyeh @phendrick @PhysAssist @xobzoo Heh… don’t put me on the path.
@chienfou @phendrick @PhysAssist @xobzoo
@capnjb–looks like you’re a man of many hats - or helmets!
@chienfou @phendrick @PhysAssist @xobzoo
@Kyeh Have I told you about my Vader build? I just feel bad when my 3D printer isn’t doing anything. I feel like it’s just saying, I want to play. Kind of like my dog. Heh… I even leave the lights on for my Roomba because I feel bad about it cleaning my kitchen in the dark. I’ve got a weird brain
@capnjb @Kyeh
Wow. Those are great. 25 yrs ago my son had a friend (same one that built our railing for the loft) who used to hand make stormtrooper outfits from Sintra (I think). He and a buddy had a flourishing business online. They would buy sheets of material, cut it to the patterns they had created, then heat it and mold it around forms they had designed and built. It was a pretty niche market but they did all right for themselves for quite a while.
@chienfou @Kyeh Heh… those are mostly test runs. These are the good ones
@capnjb @chienfou
You’re an animist! A Japanese American friend of mine says she can’t throw something away without apologizing to to it, etc. It’s kind of a Shinto view of things - everything has a spirit of sorts. I totally get it.
/showme a police detective grilling a suspect
@mediocrebot okayyyyy…
/showme a police detective cooking a suspect on a grill
Something went terribly wrong. Please try again.
@mediocrebot I kinda figured you’d say that.
@mediocrebot Don’t start getting all sensitive because it isn’t a penguin.
/showme a police detective with the suspect on a grill
@mediocrebot Pathetic.
@yakkoTDI
/showme a police detective with a penguin on a grill
@narfcake @yakkoTDI I hate that! I’d rather see the suspect on the grille.
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI
/showme a detective cat with a guilty suspect about to be cooked on a BBQ grill
@narfcake @yakkoTDI They both look pretty dismayed about the whole thing.
@Kyeh @narfcake @yakkoTDI
/showme a police detective interrogating a suspect who is lying on a grill
@ItalianScallion @narfcake @yakkoTDI
Whoa, that’s brutal!
@Kyeh @narfcake @yakkoTDI I guess Mediocrebot didn’t think it was too brutal because it’s only part of a body?
@ItalianScallion @narfcake @yakkoTDI
Dumb bot.
Mediocrebot is an asshole.
@narfcake @yakkoTDI
But remember, @kyeh, this is the new mediocrebot. Remember when they changed it a few months ago and the new one started creating way different images for our order names/“numbers”? I thought that was because the old one was an a-hole.
@ItalianScallion @narfcake @yakkoTDI
Well, this one obeyed this prompt, so it must just be an upgraded clone of the former one.
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@PhysAssist Did you get one?
@Kyeh
No, I already have a tabletop propane grill, a wood pellet smoker and an offset firebox charcoal smoker.
My brother-in-law gifted me our nephew’s wood pellet smoker after he died because he [my B-I-L] wasn’t going to use it.
Our nephew died on 9/11/20 due to self-induced asphyxiation and depression- ironically after starting Zoloft the week before- unfortunately, the black box warning was prophetic.
@PhysAssist Oh, no - I’m really sorry to hear that.
@Kyeh @PhysAssist
I have a fold-up grill sort of like this one, but the main part is V-shaped instead of box-shaped. The problem with mine and the one here is that the grill height is not adjustable and the grill is just too damn close to the hot coals to not burn things. Yes, I could make a smaller bed of coals, but then I’d have to reserve one end for adding coals and burning them down before pushing them to the cooking side.
What I really want is the Snow Peak Takibi grill
but it’s outrageously expensive ($320!) like most Snow Peak stuff. I’m sure it’s the usual high quality Snow Peak is known for. I did see a knock-off for $100 in a social media ad, so I’ll have to check that out.
@ItalianScallion @Kyeh
Those do look cute and portable.
It looks like you could [if materials and skillset are apropos] make some extensions for the height adjustment uprights to get some further distance from the coals.
I looked at the Snow Peak merch and you’re right, it’s pretty pricey.
@Kyeh @PhysAssist I’m sure I could make a grill height-adjustable frame, but I’m working on so many other projects right now that I don’t want to take this on, especially if it involved (likely it would) either welding or brazing.
The few Snow Peak things I do own I got either used our on some sort of special sale. The Snow Peak US flagship store in Portland, Oregon is way cool, by the way!
Okay I’m going to call bullshit on the 1 cm thick claim. That’s only for part of the outfit.
Yeah. Looks to me like the folded-up part could be only 1 cm thick and the grill is probably only 1 cm thick, but the tray sure isn’t. The carrying bag reveals the truth, though. This calls for the Spanish Inquisition! No one expects that!