[SGVHAK] BBQ Recap

[Braddock]

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It was a great BBQ, Lan, thanks for having us!

- -braddock

On 05/18/2014 02:08 PM, Lan Dang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We had a great BBQ on Saturday.  People came at different times and
> brought food and dessert, so people were well-fed throughout the
> day, and there were few leftovers...including a red Coleman cooler
> and a Quest bag containing bocce balls.  If those are yours, please
> let me know and either arrange to pick them up at my house, or I'll
> try to remember to bring them to a LUG or HAK meeting.
> 
> We had a couple of shade sails and a popup canopy to provide shade.
> It was interesting to see how the party would move around with the
> movement of the sun.  Chairs started clustering closer together.
> The popup canopy was relocated by about ten feet and people were
> beside the canopy, instead of under it.
> 
> Mike P-S made these amazing mac and cheese and bacon stuffed
> burgers.  Michael S. made steaks and short ribs.  Steven grilled
> spicy sausages and hot dogs, and Joel provided extra sweet corn and
> small potatoes for the grill.  We had sausage fried rice and salad
> and pie and Russian caramel cake and fruit.  There was an electric
> griddle if people wanted to heat up tortillas and chicken for
> chicken street tacos.
> 
> There were a couple of hackerish things we did.  Scoops and Ginko
> brought their carbonation apparatus, which was a CO2 tank with a
> special hose and adapter.  They made ginger soda.  We also tried
> carbonating grapes in a bottle, but it would probably require more
> than the couple of minutes we gave it.
> 
> I put James' kids to work making Nutella ice cream in an ice
> baggie.  Unfortunately, it tasted more like generic chocolate
> soft-serve, partly because we "served" the ice cream by snipping
> off a corner from the baggie and squeezing the ice cream into small
> dixie cups.
> 
> I attempted to make an orange slushie  by pouring orange juice over
> crushed dry ice, but I was not confident about ingesting it.  I
> kept seeing lumps in the slushie that might be tiny chunks of dry
> ice.
> 
> Michael S. and Scoops made self-inflating balloons, by pouring
> pulverized dry ice into a balloon using a funnel. This is more
> difficult than it sounds like because the funnel is easily clogged.
> Someone turned a popsicle stick into a shiv to make unclogging the
> funnel easier.  Another complication is that if the dry ice makes
> contact with the rubber in the balloon, it weakens the rubber and
> causes the balloon to pop.
> 
> Rob used two styrofoam bowls and duct tape to create a carbonation
> chamber to carbonate watermelon with dry ice.  It was an
> interesting taste--plain watermelon chased with club soda.  We
> mixed grapes with crushed dry ice.  The resulting frozen grapes
> were tasty; they didn't seem carbonated at all.
> 
> I didn't end up doing as much with my dry ice as I'd planned, but
> it provided an excellent way to keep John's ice cream popsicles
> frozen throughout the day, and it's keeping them very well-frozen
> now :)
> 
> The BBQ was really a lot of fun.  Thanks to all who came and helped
> set up and contributed all the food and drinks and especially their
> company.
> 
> 
> Lan
> 

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