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The ROG Strix Flare II Animate takes everything great about the previous Strix Flare and amps it up to 11, from the feel of the switches to ultra-fast response times and an improved wrist rest. But when you first lay eyes on this beauty, your eye will undoubtedly be drawn to the kickass animations in the top corner.
The 70s not only gave us some of the greatest artists of all time, like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and David Bowie but it also gave us a ton of fashion trends that are coming back. The 70s have always been a point of inspiration for me both in my style and music taste. Read on to find how the 70s inspired this fall flared look.
Also, this is the perfect time to remind anyone reading that the amount of style someone has is not directly correlated with how much they spend. My goal as a fashion blogger is to show you different styles and trends of the season at different price points. I want to show you where you can save and when items are worth a splurge.
When you read through the reams of online content devoted to grilling, much of what you see will be highlighting best practices on how to ace your next bbq cook. They are certainly helpful but at times I like to take the contrarian approach, instead highlighting how I completely screwed up a cook. I feel that this approach is at times more valuable and in many cases funnier to read for beginner to intermediate outdoor cooking enthusiasts. So,on to my latest disaster...
It had been some time since I had smoked a full packer brisket, an exercise which is daunting due to my schedule. I picked one up from the Morris Park Butcher in the Bronx, and this was the largest I have ever cooked at 16lbs. I loaded it up with Meadow Creek's Brisket rub as well as Jacobsen's hand-harvested coarse sea salt. and got ready to put that brisket on the my Traeger Timberline 850.
My game plan was to cook it at 250F for about 12 hours. So that meant I would load the Timberline 850 at 10 pm on Sunday night and then would check it Monday morning and wrap / rest it, shooting for an overall cook time of about 16 hours. I cleaned out the firebox, fire pot and grease tray and loaded the hopper with Lumberjack Pecan pellets. I went to bed that night with a smile on my face, envisioning wisps of Pecan smoke curling around that glorious piece of meat through the evening.
I opened the lid and the interior of the TImberline was not warm. I then opened the hopper and saw that there was a ring of pellets on the sides of the hopper, almost in a circle, with the middle area devoid of pellets. So it appeared that the auger had stopped feeding pellets.
The grill was cold. The brisket had a little bit of warmth to it but not much. There was no smell of smoke, so I started to think that the grill may have shut down hours before. But then I looked at the brisket and it had already changed to a dark cherry/black color. I probed it with my Thermapen and it read 147. So it had cooked for awhile...I decided to go on the assumption that the grill stopped feeding pellets 2-3 hours prior so that meant that the brisket had received a good 6 hours of smoke.
So you can imagine what I felt, after enduring the grill issue and having to run back 3x to check on the cook (was not using wifi) when I unwrapped the foil from the brisket, gave it a poke and...was met with tough, deadened response. No jiggle. No juice meeting my finger as I poked it. Just dry resistance. It was at this point that I knew I was in brisket hell.
I brought out my Victorinox knife and started to carve her, and while the first cuts were exemplary with a pronounced smoke ring and moistness oozing from the meat, that would not last very long. As I got to the flat I was met with greyish dry cuts with pronounced shades of white. It felt like I was cutting through wood. I continued to carve and was able to salvage about 30-40% of the brisket. After handing off the "salvage" plate to my daughter so she could share with the rest of the family in the kitchen, I sunk into a chair outside, sipped my Finback IPA and said to myself, "There must be a lesson learned from this."
1 - The failure of the pellets to keep feeding into the auger was too much to overcome. Once this happened I was literally flying without radar. I had no idea how long the brisket had cooked for and what max temp it had reached. For all I know it could have stopped 5 hours earlier and seen an appreciable temp drop. Running with the evidence of a darkened brisket and that a decent amount of pellets were chewed, I estimated that it has been off for around 3 hours.
2 - Placement of the Brisket on the 850 - for this cook I placed the brisket on the bottom shelf of the Timberline 850 and I placed it on a metal sheet pan so the drippings wouldn't hit the Traeger Timberline 850 and potentially cause a major flare up. In hindsight this was a bad move. The metal pan was likely conducting heat through its surface and passing it along to the brisket. I also had the brisket placed on the lower rack position on the Timberline, not the middle one which is where most hardcore Traeger people will tell you is where that brisket needs to go. For my next cook I will move the brisket to the middle rack and see if there is a major difference.
3 - I didn't use a water pan. I typically place a pan of either water or beer in the smoker, under the brisket. so the air will stay moist throughout the long cook. This time, I did not do this. Could this have contributed to the dryness of the brisket. Likely not a major cause, but certainly didn't help matters.
4- I was using a frozen brisket. Typically I purchase my brisket from the butcher the same day or the day before I cook it. So it stays in my refrigerator until it's time to cook. This time, we purchased the brisket and then froze it for 2 weeks prior to the cook. It had to thaw for 2-3 days in the refrigerator before I started the cook. Could the up and down temp swings contributed to the problems I had with the cook? I will need to ask a butcher or meat expert. Nevertheless, moving forward I will plan on limiting the storage time and will try to buy when its time to cook.
In my opinion, after a failure the only course of action is to dust yourself off, learn from the experience and get back in the saddle. That said, I will be purchasing another full packer brisket for this weekend and will be cooking again on the Timberline 850. I'll be making several adjustments and will be reporting on the results shortly thereafter. Stay tuned!
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The Supercat is made by U.K.-based TWR Performance, in collaboration with famous Porsche tuner Magnus Walker. Walker acted as a design consultant for the project, partnering with TWR's Khyzyl Saleem to pen the reimagined XJS, a tribute to the touring car that originally put Tom Walkinshaw Racing on the map 40 years ago.
While you can clearly see the Jaguar XJS roots, the Supercat's dramatic custom bodywork gives me Aston Martin Valour-vibes (though, not nearly as pretty). There are some interesting design elements that combine the original XJS' styling with modern design. The headlights, for example, feature the same hexagonal housing as before, but now with twin-ring LED lamps. The hood shape remains mostly the same but gains very aggressive fender flares, a bulge, and some air vents. The back end sports even bigger flares and side-exit exhausts. And of course, you can't miss the massive ducktail spoiler and rear diffuser.
However, it's under the skin where the Supercat is most interesting. TWR didn't say what sort of V12 is under the hood, but it's safe to assume that it's a heavily modified and supercharged version of the original Jag V12. According to TWR, it makes more than 600 horsepower and pairs to a six-speed manual transmission, which makes it pretty much the ideal GT-car powertrain. Considering the XJS' V12 was always more about silky smoothness rather than power and aggression, I'm curious to hear what it sounds like when supercharged and tuned to that degree.
If you want one, it's gonna cost you, though. Only 88 are being built, and they'll start at $281,000. That's a lot more than the $5,000 coupes I see on Marketplace, though less than half the price of British racing contemporary Prodrive's own Impreza 22B revival, so it could be worse. TWR says the Supercat will be available in the U.K., the United States, and other "major international markets."
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