Well if your talking Labor Day, we'll be grilling whatever shows up. Personally I'm cooking 4 racks of ribs, 2 in my Orion Cooker and 2 on the grill. Along with grilled corn, fruit salad, scalloped potatoes and whatever desserts come over. Should be a fun day :flag2
that orion cooker is the way to go, love mine
picked some of my tobasco peppers and had some thai peppers given to me, so I cut them in 1/2 removed the pith and seed and dried in the stove on low with the door cracked, then (with rubber gloves) ground the peppers in my hands to cook or add to pizza etc. I was doing this in the living room, meanwhile my wife and her friend were in the kitchen choking/coughing/tearing like they were maced or hit with tear gas. just gotta find some suckers, er friends to try it out. got a small hole in my glove and it burnt my finger. still have heartburn from the hot sauce. but I can't stay away from it.
Here a photo one of my sons took when I pulled the top on the Orion...mmm, ribs. I used hickory chips and a home made rub. When I took them out I tossed them on the grill for a little charr and basted with some bbq sauce. They look like dinosaur ribs in the photo but tasted pretty awesome if I do say so myself... He didn't get a picture of the grill to the side...it was loaded with some beef ribs, steaks, chicken, hotdogs for the kids, and eventually corn on the cob :>P We had about 40 people over and feasted well...
picked some of my tobasco peppers and had some thai peppers given to me, so I cut them in 1/2 removed the pith and seed and dried in the stove on low with the door cracked, then (with rubber gloves) ground the peppers in my hands to cook or add to pizza etc. I was doing this in the living room, meanwhile my wife and her friend were in the kitchen choking/coughing/tearing like they were maced or hit with tear gas. just gotta find some suckers, er friends to try it out. got a small hole in my glove and it burnt my finger. still have heartburn from the hot sauce. but I can't stay away from it.
Being the hot pepper nerd that I am, here's a tip for you...Instead of wearing latex gloves, you need to wear nitrile. The molecules of capsaicin are smaller than the pores in latex, yet larger than the pores in nitrile. You can get severe pepper burns while wearing latex gloves...
