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Skriven 2013-07-16 00:10:06 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Tiny Stoves
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->  -> I can't claim with any degree of truth that I have ever speared my
->  -> supper - except for gigging frogs. But, I have roasted meat using a
->  -> ram-rod from a black powder musket as the spit. Back in the 60s,
->  -> living in Californica and participating in a group of civil war 
->  -> reenactors. (5th U.S. Artillery, Battery D)
-> 
->  SR> Can't say I've done that either.  A friend does Revolutionary War
->  SR> reinactments locally, but he doesn't do the cooking.
-> 
-> This was small groups (squad tents - 5 or 6 bodies) with the cooking 
chores
-> shared out more-or-less equally. As with all military and quasi-military 
deals
-> - the guy with the hot sauce and garlic salt was king. 
->  
Garlic, salt and hot sauce make all kinds of things edible.  

->  -> keep the red-tail hawks at bay. Something basically wrong to my
->  -> sensibilities seeing a big ol' raptor fleeing from a minuscule red-
wing
->  -> blackbird defending "his" territory.
-> 
->  SR> Are the blackbirds the local equivalent of wolverines? If so I
don't
->  SR> blame the hawks.
-> 
-> Not being from Michigan I don't know a lot about wolverines.

I know enough not to mess with one unless it's on the business end of a 
shotgun. NASTY suckers.  
  
-> From the WIKI - The Red-winged Blackbird aggressively defends its 
territory
-> from other animals. It will attack much larger birds. Males have been 
known to
-> swoop at humans who encroach upon their nesting territory during
breeding
-> season.
-> 
-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-winged_Blackbird
-> 
-> The males are rather pretty ... but the females - Eeeeewwwwww.

Eh - they're better than lawyers.  
 
->  -> Nestle Classic Roast instant is pretty much OK. And Dana Brown
Safari
->  -> instant (which was a local (St. Louis) roaster) but they are just a
->  -> fading memory.
-> 
->  SR> Must be if I haven't heard of them.  I haven't had Nescafe in eons.
->  SR> Maybe they've improved it.
-> 
-> Lots of things you've probably not heard of from outside the cramped 
confines
-> of Connecticut.

I've heard of Nescafe, but haven't used instant except in recipes since 
college.  That's 20+ years ago.
 
-> Something I learned to do from a friend - make your instant coffee as 
"normal"
-> then nuke it for 30 seconds. This removes the sharp bitterness and most 
of the
-> "instant" taste. It can make even that famous Mexican brand "El Cheapo" 
taste
-> almost like real coffee.

It's worth a shot.  I generally mainline mine as soon as it's cool enough
to 
drink.  
 
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