Were you a teacher or a pupil?

A lot of the effort is in the preparation. I got some great quality pork belly and a thin loin piece from a really good, local, farm shop. I took off the ribs, trimmed it, and rolled it myself. The rolling and tying took a couple of goes before I was happy with it, but it was worth it. Then it was mostly just time and judiciously applied heat!

Edit to add: a couple more thoughts! I butterflied the belly so it opened like a book. Then, using mustard as a binder I seasoned the meat and the underside of the skin with salt, pepper and garlic and just a hint of smoked paprika. Then I salted the skin and roughly rolled it and let it airdry in the fridge for about 36 hours. I also made some stuffing with crushed pinenuts, parsley, onion, apple, and chorizo which I cooled and then I layered on the stuffing and did the proper roll and tie about an hour before it went on the spit.

It’s the Kamado Joe rotisserie on a Big Joe III. Given that it’s for a Kamado grill - and therefore variable height settings aren’t possible because you want to cook with the lid closed - it’s about as good as it can be. No complaints at all. Other than the price, because it’s not cheap.

I think it will fit a few other brands, but you would probably want to check in with someone who has both because the fit does matter when you’re trying to get enough of a seal to be able to properly control airflow.

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

That’d be about 0.00005% I think.

I guess the people who profited from 2008 have decided it’s time for another slurp at the trough.

Pffft, I know you are but what am I?

“Fun size equals smaller” said no-one ever.

Family coming over for lunch and I’m doing a (variation on) porcetta. I’ve got a lovely piece of pork belly which has been airdrying in the fridge since yesterday morning. Should be cracking crackling. If the weather holds I’ll do it on the rotisserie on my Kamado Joe.

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Still karma whoring then!

Whoever has been left as its leadership is a dumbass.

Not in the slightest. More likely their annual bonus depends on boosting revenue right now. So they’re incentivised to generate short term increases in revenue but not for longer term. Plus, also, if/when Youtube goes tits up they’ll just get a different CEOing job (with “increased revenue by 25% in 2024 on their resume”) rinse and repeat.

I remember: “It’s better to do something than live with the fear of it”. Then I get on with it.

Kind of my point. We gained ecommerce, streaming services, platforms such as this one, online gaming, mapping services, and others - at the cost of the freedoms for which people are nostalgic. And now we have ads, personalization, tracking, and inevitable enshitification.

Back in the days of the wild frontier things were chaotic, anarchic, violent, and unconstrained.

Then came the churches, then came the schools
Then came the lawyers, then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road

And now we’re all fenced in, regulated, allowed to wander only in approved lanes… oh, wait, sorry, we’re talking about the internet, not real life!

Tell me you’re a bigger shite than any sassenach without telling me you’re a bigger shite than any sassenach.

Set your cruise control for 20 mph, sit back, set your seat to ‘massage’ if you have that luxury, close your eyes, and enjoy the ride.

What?

The only thing I wanted to know is: does it taste any good?

As for trying Atomo, both the coffee shop espresso and the brew-at-home version tasted close enough to good coffee for me. Perhaps luckily for these companies, coffee can have many different undertones.

That’s it? Over 1000 words for ‘close enough’?

I’m fussy about real coffee, I’m going to need a bit more detail.

I think this is the first example of blatant karma farming I’ve seen on lemmy. It was inevitable.

Calm down!