That’s funny, cause not all Meathead’s rubs contain sugar. The ones that do definitely don’t operate on a more is good principal. His bark article barely mentions sugar, his rub article does but specifies it’s not necessary. And the rest of what I said is mentioned elsewhere on Amazing Ribs from the stall articles to…

Oh they’re decent smokers for the handful of things they’re good at. And I got a lot of use out of mine.

Sugar can be real bad for bark. For one thing it has a tendency to burn early. But sugar is hygroscopic, it traps moisture. So in a rub it holds moisture close to the surface of the meat. Preventing it from dehydrating and browning, which is most of what’s going on with bark.

Eh. My other post on this doesn’t seem to have stuck. So:

That’s a bit the problem. If people want pumpkin spice in mid October it needs to on shelves and gone from distribution by September. Which means wholesalers/corporate have to push it in August. Which means getting it in stock in July. Which means producers need to start on it in March.

That’s left overs. Some wholesalers won’t take seasonal items back after a certain cut off.

Yeah. This post is too late.

Yeah they’re fine for what they’re made for. Small amounts of fish and jerky.

For the bark there’s a few things you could try.

That’s mostly incorrect.

There’s nothing fancy about a little chief. It’s an aluminum box with a very cheap hot plate mounted in the bottom. Doesn’t even have an off switch.

I had one of those. It’ll do for small batches of fish, and jerky. But trying to do stuff like bacon or sausage in there, it just couldn’t keep up. None the less larger batches of things, since it takes so long. The little chief (and big chief) only have one setting. On. At about 145, so it’s slow going. And if you…

The mechanical bits in most pellet smokers are basically commodity parts that are easy to come by. For most brands they seem to be interchangeable. The only expensive bit tends to be the temperature controllers.

“In my teens I thought booth babes were awesome but as I moved into my 20s and was still going to cons I realized how gross it was”

The metric with the sort of thing tends to be new subscribers signing up during the release window. Premium cable has been tracking (and not reporting) that sort of thing for years. Especially HBO. Also how many of those subscriber stick around long term.

With Rogue One there was apparently FUCK tons of footage shot. Because that’s how Gareth Edwards does things. He apparently tries to get as much coverage and variation as he can, then works it all out on post.

I think the bigger issue is that Ayer was already heavily, heavily involved in the promotion before that trailer caused WB to have the film recut. His name was already all over the thing. Taking his name off it would have just been a bigger statement that it wasn’t his doing, but would have also mean cutting ties with…

Ayer’s tweet here states his cut was a complete one. Not an assembly cut.

It set the record for opening weekend revenue during the pandemic.

“it was aimed at a younger audience than me.”