Martin Fisher

Yep!!!! That'll definitely do it too!!!

Yeah, they're relatively docile most of the time—but wander near a beehive (or an apiary of 25 to 35 hives) the day after a skunk or the like has scratched at the entrance of the hive overnight and it can/will/may lead to an eye-opening experience. I've experienced issues like that many times when I was beekeeping heavily!

Especially the Buckfast strain developed many years ago by Brother Adam. They're very mild mannered and not prone to stinging in a way that some other strains are. ETA: I just recalled that there used to be a strain called Midnite that was very gentle—but it appears that strain has disappeared or at least isn't readily available.. "The late Dr. G.H. Cale, a leading authority on honey bees and a honey bee geneticist with Dadant and Sons was responsible for producing a hybrid line of honey bees bred for gentleness and high honey productivity called the “Midnite."

Yes it is, grew it last year but not this year.

There's this burner which seems to have a decent orifice pattern. Mr. Heater 15,000 BTU SINGLE BURNER ANGLE IRON STOVE

I think I'm going to get one of those scrapers and give it a try.

Yes, of course, there are topics on this forum specifically devoted to the subject!

Hmmmm! I am a bacon fanatic! This is a tip I MUST remember! Cheers, peace and bacon grease!

I use the Scotch-Brite green and blue (non-scratch) thin scrubbies all the time and I don't sanitize them. I think that bleach significantly shortens the life of my bar mops.

Lucky you! I would LOVE to have an upright!

More chicken leg quarters being par-cooked in the sous vide setup this morning! I'm proud of myself!

Now, I can see the logic in keeping bees in cities for pollination. But for honey making, no, I don't care for the idea. Just my personal opinion.

No! Not at all! I'm not good at anything other than eating! ETA: I built my calculator with the generous help of Phil Young over in the UK, http://www.localfoodheroes.co.uk/

During my high-school years and a few years afterward I worked for a beekeeper/beekeeping/honey business (beekeeping supplies, honey related products ,etc.) 900+ colonies (hives) of bees at over 30 locations. At times when hive honey stores ran low—a serious emergency—the bees did need to be fed. The issue usually occurred in late winter or early spring, or when there was a serious dearth of nectar (drought), etc. Barrels were placed at the apiaries and filled with the sugary substance. I can't remember now exactly what it was—thinking back, I believe it was candy factory waste. Certainly nothing dangerous—but dealing with it wasn't pleasant. It was rather pungent. Bees can potentially make honey from anything sugary. I'll take my honey (if I was still able to eat honey), preferably, from nectar gathered from wildflowers. A very old photo of me. I'm guessing about 1980. Ha ha ha! PS: Honeybees and dumpsters: I've seen honeybees buzzing dumpsters frequently—especially in early spring.

Or a nasty sweet slurry or the like.

Yeah. Sure. That's one of the common suggestions. Just irks me that the range is such a total piece of junk! I removed the blades from the ceiling fan so they could install the powered ceiling vent more easily. I'm going to try to get them back on today. The ceiling fan may assist the exhaust fan when blowing upward.

I have lived here without a range hood exhaust vent for 7+ years. Had a Panasonic ceiling vent installed about 3 weeks ago. Community improvement project. It's no at all hefty (110 cfm) but it's better than nothing—the damn thing is so quite it's very easy to forget it's running. So we still have limitations. I may fashion a high velocity fan that can be popped in and out of the window opening as needed. Something I should have done YEARS ago!

I've done that too.

Yes, exactly.

I wasn't thinking clearly late last night! DUH! If you can come up with something that has a very unique calculator, planner or something else JavaScript or HTML 5, it has the potential to draw significant interest. My meat curing calculator page (which is badly in need of an update and transfer to a new server) fills a special niche and gets a lot of monthly traffic! HTH

It was supposed to be very good news.

The Blichmann HellFire burners are also very nice.

The Edelmetall Brü® Burners are attractive and the burner rings are real nice. But I don't know how small of a skillet they would accommodate or if a needle valve is readily available (I'll have to ask)—although I'm sure one could be easily obtained and added.

I plan to have a nice, high-end portable induction burner some day—but that'll require it's own, new, dedicated circuit.

I do have a turkey fryer burner which—in terms of turkey fryer burners— is a good quality one, but the flame ring isn't as large as or as well defined as the Tajas Smokers burners. I'll dig the turkey fry burner out and try it, but it doesn't have a needle valve (but one could be added) for more precise temperature control. I do work with charcoal a lot but I'd like to have a versatile gas burner that I can also use the my All-American pressure canners, etc. I would also like to set up a charcoal salamander based a on a park grill and with some expanded steel mesh to better contain the coals. Charcoal salamanders do an excellent job broiling. Check out the following short Alton Brown video—the important business starts at about 1:30...