bbqdawg

quote:

---

What’s the deal with that strip loin? I’m going to guess it’s local and grass fed? Crazy lean, very little marbling. Interested to hear the story there.

---

The side you see with the knife on it was the fat cap side. There was a lot of hard fat, and silver skin. I trimmed it all down to what you see. The pic with the steaks cut had some pretty good fat through the meat. I smoked these first at around 225 for a couple hours so some of the fat rendered out before putting them on the Blackstone.

quote:

---

It's from Costco which is where most fake BBQ champs get their meat.

---

You mad bro?!? :lol: :moon:

It was actually bought at Kroger. They had the whole thing cryovaced and it was $6.99/lbs uncut. Sorry, not going to buy the $250 Snake River Farms for my first attempt breaking down that size of a piece meat. But thanks for stopping by and looking.

To be honest, food wise, I am 100% on Carnivore where I slack is that I still have a couple beers every day.

What got me on this, was a photo taken of me on a trip at dinner and my side profile pic was not very good. You could see the overweight. I weighed around 218-220 at 5'8. As of today I'm at 190 and my blood work numbers are much better. My good cholesterol is up and my bad cholesterol is down 12 points but still about 8-10 away from where the Dr wants. My BP is much better to the point I passed the first time in the Dr's office without her having to retake it manually vs with the machine. My wife says my snoring is next to nothing now. I sleep through the night. No more late night bathroom breaks. I drink a ton of water everyday.

Full disclosure, my Dr does not like the Carnivore diet but she says, " the numbers don't lie". She'd rather see me on a Mediterranean diet to get some veggies. When I go back in May for bloodwork if my cholesterol continues to get better she will take me off the cholesterol medicine. That was a goal as well.

The diet is not cheap but its not terribly expensive if you food prep at the beginning of the week with bulk foods. Thanks Costco. I find I have to food prep to keep the temptation down to cheat. This is not a forever diet for me, 5 more lbs and I'll incorporate some veggies, but probably very little bread and no more boxed food. You'd be surprised how many resteraunts will "cater" to the Carnivore if you just tell them ahead of time. Maybe like adding the meat you order, or adding a couple fried eggs. Snacks that I have on hand are boiled eggs, snake river farms meat sticks, cheddar slices, mozzarella medallions.

Todays breakfast- Bacon, Egg, and Cheese in a egg wrap
Lunch- Cottage cheese, and medium sirloin
Dinner- 2 chicken thighs, a fried egg, couple small pieces of cheddar chesse.


Scale pic taken last Saturday



BP numbers are from a blood pressure machine in my office.


:usa: :cheers:

Weather getting warner, time to break the grills and smokers back out. Atttached a couple cooks I've done at the house messing around. First are some simple Hot Honey Butter Smoked Chicken Thighs, and then a whole strip loin I trimmed and seperated into individual steaks. You cane see the amount of hard fat that got trimmed off. I don't have a pic but I got fmedium size mason jar full of tallow rendering down the fat. For the steaks I smoked them at 225 until reaching 115 degrees, and then seared them on the blackstone and pulled at 120 "ish" and let them rest. I know I'm bias but they were really good and they kept well in the fridge, eating on them the rest of the week. Enjoy!








:usa: :cheers:

Stat Link

Looks like todays game at 10am is not streaming but game 2 which starts 45 minutes after the 10am game vs Quinnipiac is on FLOCOLLEGE vs UNCW and then tomorrows game is on FLOCOLLEGE again vs UNWC @3pm.

GO DAWGS!!
:usa: :cheers:

Thanks for getting this started.

Any preseason/scrimmage/inner squad games scheduled before the season?

WTF!

1. We lost??
2. Beck is smiling during the game while getting waxed??
3. Pope is celebrating with old friends on the field??

I can't leave this place for a few days without everything going to crap?

We feed our Vizsla who is very high energy Farmina N&D. No issues and he is 7 years old.

quote:

---

Are you a masochist?

---

Nope. Just watched it a little more sober in the first half and a lot more sober in the 2nd half the 2nd time watching it.

:cheers: :usa:

Rewatching the game tonight. Tell me what team in this 2024 season comes back on Alabama down by 28!

When they take out the trash the bags cannot go further than 1 step away from the door.