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[Sooner]

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Can't hurt anything & will do you good working in the heat!

 

[Kassaundra]

I got a new recipe book the other day and wanted to try a recipe in it, but it called for cooking all day in the crock pot, but I didn't want to heat the house up, so I had a stroke of brilliance, I put the crock pot in the garage. It worked out so well, I'm getting Gary to clear me a spot right by the door big enough for a stove/oven, and wire it w/ 220, so through the hot summer I can cook in the garage and not heat up the house. I don't know why I never thought of this before.

 

[Sooner]

I try to grill alot in the summer time. DH did foil packs in the coal over the weekend, that was really great! Figure since we are burning so much we might as well fix dinner at the same time.

 

[Kassaundra]

I grill some too in the summer, but where the grill is in our yard is not very convenient for a lot of use, and Gary doesn't like grilled meat that much. The garage is right next to the kitchen for easy access and I have a lot more experience and skill w/ the stove/oven, then the grill.

 

[Sooner]

I see where you are coming from. I have a toaster oven that was from my DH's Grandma, it is big enough to put a 9x13 pan in so I use that alot in the summer. I don't have the garage option.

 

[TheBarnSwallow]

GUESS WHAT!!! Snow Flake our Americana Hen helped hatch out some babies for us yesterday!

I say help because it appears that 6 Broody Hens were playing round robin in the nesting boxes and taking turns with each nest of eggs...


We moved her into the nursery and out of the coop in her own special cage with her babies and I candled the remaining eggs and only left her with a couple that looked ready to hatch over the next week or so..

Then I decided to do that with the each of the nests in the boxes...

I popped the hens out.... Candled all the eggs and any that look just freshly layed I put in one nest box

Ones that appeared with veins and the magic dot in another

ones that were half way through development in one

and all the ones that were close to being hatched I split those into two nests

I GAVE ALL nests fresh hay and hucked out all the rotton nasty eggs..

which was so gross I had to shower because the smell was so horrible it like stuck to me..

I noticed about 4 chicks had tried to hatch out but were smashed as each nesting box litterally had about 18-20 eggs in them... no room... So after dividing up the eggs by "development" the nesting boxes are much more roomier. Plus removing the nasty eggs and dead chicks I was able to get rid of the maggots that were happily feeding off them double

When I was done I grabbed all the broody hens and put them back into the respective boxes and they seemed quite happy... and were still there this morning

I know for sure we have 2 naked neck chicks and 2 regular puff balls that hatched out from under "snow flake" so thats cool

cant wait to see the look on Yosimite Sams face when he sees the regular puff balls I am sure there is gonna be alot of talk as to who the "father" is on the farmstead... ha ha ha

 

[CityClucks]

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You're just going back to the late 19th & early 20th century western American way of cooking. My house (1910) was built sans kitchen - they cooked in a room below the carriage house/garage and the servants brought the food into the galley and butler pantry. There was a foot-actuated button in the dining room floor that rang a bell to summon the servant when the diners wanted something brought in. When I moved into the house in 1999 it still didn't have a kitchen. The oven was in the basement and the refrigerator was on the back porch. The galley just had a small sink in it.

edited to add: No one ever comes when I push the floor button.

 

[jcatblum]

I have a folding table out the backdoor. Plug is right above the table. In the summer use my small convection/ toaster oven, crockpot, & bread maker out there. I love doing baked potatoes & meatloaf in the crockpot! I have 4 crockpots but only use 2 most wks. However the best cooking appliance I use outside is my charbroil oil-less turkey fryer. It runs off propane (saw electric ones clearanced
out @ atwoods- but not sure if it would do as good of a job). The fryer has several accessories & can be used for lots of things. I have a chicken basket for mine. Cook 2 chickens @ a time & they come out looking like the rotisserie chickens from wal-mart. Nice crispy skin & so tasty !!! Next thing I want to buy for it is a basket to cook veggies in while the chicken is cooking.

 

[Buckguy20]

Some people just don't like having their buttons pushed.

 

[ke_ben]

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You're just going back to the late 19th & early 20th century western American way of cooking. My house (1910) was built sans kitchen - they cooked in a room below the carriage house/garage and the servants brought the food into the galley and butler pantry. There was a foot-actuated button in the dining room floor that rang a bell to summon the servant when the diners wanted something brought in. When I moved into the house in 1999 it still didn't have a kitchen. The oven was in the basement and the refrigerator was on the back porch. The galley just had a small sink in it.

edited to add: No one ever comes when I push the floor button.

Maybe you should check the wiring.

Beth and all the other Okies. Here we just set the food outside and come back in an hour or 2.