Good eats - BBQ

On 1/27/2011 1:08 PM, Nunya Bidnits wrote:


Troll noted. Lack of any meaningful on topic post noted. (really? do
you even cook?) Have fun in my filter you waste of skin.

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Currently Reading: Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
 
Doug Freyburger wrote:

In general the lead found in ceramics is in the glaze. Most plain clay
flowerpots are unglazed. The rule should probably be if it isn't purpose
built for cooking, eating, or drinking and it has a shiny finish, don't put
food in it.

MartyB
 
notbob wrote:

I drink wine or whatever from crystal on rare occasions. I have some
but use my glass and plastic far more often. Heck, I use my drinking
horns more often than my entire set of crystal. It's fun having an ale
or mead from a drinking horn.

I do keep roses and other flowers in our nice crystal vases. I never
use the rose petals in cooking. Until now I never actually thought
through that in terms of lead exposure. I just never collected petals
at home for spice uses.

Lead leaching into the soil in a flower pot is not a problem for pot
grown tomatoes, is it? Not that I've ever heard.
 
Jean wrote on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:26:44 -0500:



I can't say I've ever wanted to use a drinking horn but has yours a
stand or can you not put it down? The last sounds right for Vikings!

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
 
James Silverton wrote:
Cups not sups. I really do have to start reading what I type.

Yes, I think a cup would be more stable. Maybe I'll get one the
next time I see one--at a decent price. Antique pewter, which I
rather like, has the same problem as lead crystal.

--
Jean B.
 
Jean B. wrote:

I had some email discussion about horns recently. Here are parts abut
sources ...

For hobby tools for leather working that will also work for horn working -
http://www.tandyleatherfactory.com/ They also have a limited selection of
cow horns which are the standard for drinking, sounding, powder horns and
great for all occasions. My original drinking horn that is still my standard is
from when they still had a few walk up stores open. They've long since
switched all of their walk up stores to Radio Shack. They have probably
been separate companies for years.

For the horns themselves - http://www.hideandfur.com/ They even have bison
and goat horns, all sorts of antlers, all sorts of fur and bones and such. It
is extremely cool to make a horn holder out of antler.

Any local hobby/craft store will have the tools you want. I have a Dremel that
I used to whittle the wooden stand that I've used for many years now with my
original drinking horn. A board about the same size as the horn. Open and
taper an oval hole in the center. Slant one side of the bottom edge to
establish a front and back to the board. Round all other edges. Etch
in pre-runic symbols, runes, whatever. On mine I even have "alu mead
kafi beer" in runes on the front as a sort of menu and the whole elder
futhark on the back as a reference tool. Put the horn in the hole. If
you slanted the bottom edge and sized the hole correctly they will
lock together to make an X shape from the side. Pour in that ale. Well
received every time I have ever taken it to a pub.

This week I'm curing new drinking horn. The main task is to draw out the
nasty bits that a Dremel could not reach. Some coat their horns some don't -
I don't so I can have coffee in mine. Some scrimshaw their horns some don't -
I etched my wooden stand instead.

Somewhere I still have a water buffalo horn that I never did finishing cleaning
out the nasty bits. A few years of drying in storage should make that easier
now.
 
On 2011-01-27, Doug Freyburger wrote:


I wuz jes thinking about belt blanks and making a replacement knife
sheath. Didn't know these guys were still in business. All my
leather crafting tools are long gone, but would like to lace up that
sheath like I did my wallet in Boy Scouts. Thnx for the link.

nb
 
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