Could this be the long awaited for upgrade (downgrade) for those who wish to move on from their GS500?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160679442464
Michael
That made me laugh. I wonder what other auctions he has up.
I don't know if I could handle that much power, I could never imagine going faster than Scrabble :icon_eek:
Wood chipper: the best line is....
I also replaced one of the bearings. The original one was about as friction free as a sandpaper condom.
I like his pizza oven brick posting:
I'm a bit of a fan of the old pizza, but prefer freshly cooked ones. I became so obsessed about pizzas, especially those wood fired ones that I decided to build my own pizza oven. So expecting to live 'til 142 I decided that I should go out and buy some fire bricks and then learn how to lay them but not in the same way chooks lay things.
I got as far as buying the bricks and then imagining building one before I realised that my spare tyres was expanding at the rate of a Mickey Thompson drag slick in a burnout competition. I thought for a while about eating pizza without the cheese, peperoni, sauce or the base and instead just chewing my way through the oil soaked cardboard box it came in, however we all know about the low nutritional value of cardboard.
Pizza ovens aren't just for cooking pizzas in. I've had unrestricted access to one for the last five years and I've cooked everything from pork belly through to socks. They are a very versatile and attractive garden ornament and if you could make one reverse cycle, they would also make a fine esky. The best part about a pizza oven is the flavour which comes from the wood. If you're like me, you probably struggle to eat a leg of lamb which hasn't been baked in the smoke from treated pine. The best wood for pizza ovens is from power poles, but you'll have to make sure you have something to keep the wires propped up while you cut through it.
The bricks are also useful if you need something else that gets extremely hot, like a kiln or crematorium. The bricks are multi-purpose and could also be thrown at someone if need be. They aren't normal bricks so don't start thinking about building a normal house with them, unless of course you have the devil as a flatmate.
One thing you need to be aware of is that pizza ovens take a long time to get up to temperature, almost as long as it takes to make them. You have to keep feeding it firewood until it gets to the point that when you open the door, your eyebrows instantaneously burn off. Once that happens, you are ready to both look stupid and to cook things.
Start with something simple, like a lobster stuffed with quail heads and camel testicles. That's a dish that's hard to get wrong. Once you've perfected it, move on to something a little harder like a chicken. They will flap around a bit until their feathers explode, but the flavour is amazing. Try avoiding animals with hair because burning hair stinks. The smell also flavours the meat you have cooked, so when you try serving up a human torso; be prepared for some upturned noses.
A pizza oven isn't a microwave, so don't try plugging it in and don't expect anything to cook quickly. They produce a lot of heat but are about as predictable as an earthquake. I've put a lovely cut of meat in there and watched it for ages, hardly even starting to cook yet when I turned for just a few seconds, all that was left was some ashes and an empty urn.
You will see from my photos that you only need a few bricks to make a basic oven. You also have to remember to put flower on the bottom of it to know when it's ready, as shown in the photo. I have hundreds of these bricks and the price is per brick. You can buy one, or hundreds but hundreds will cost you more than one if that makes sense.
So go on, buy something that will be useful one day, like I did.
I gotta get this bloke to write my eBay auctions.
I liked the bike one but the pizza one had me in tears.
Michael
Quote from: aussiegs on November 17, 2011, 05:43:21 PM
I gotta get this bloke to write my eBay auctions.
i have to agree. that would be a good business for someone. let them come up wiht the bullshaZam!. you post it, ( you get pm'ed answers to any particular questions or condolences that may arise. but damn the pizza one is epic. thought about advertising my printing press on ebay. tell them will ship it in 20 large flat rate containers. ( hell it only weighs maybe a ton, and a half lol )
Quote from: mister on November 17, 2011, 11:37:54 AM
Could this be the long awaited for upgrade (downgrade) for those who wish to move on from their GS500?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160679442464
Michael
LMFAO quotes:
" Because it definitely has nothing to do with 'R' as in racing. Racing means going fast and when you've got about 300 kg of Japanese tractor between your legs, only downhills and straight lines are fair game."
"But it's not that bad. Really. It is more like one of those things you grew up unable to afford but can now afford. Like your friend's sister who was hot at school, but now has more chins than the Beijing phonebook. I even thought about restoring this bike to its former glory but couldn't find any definition on what its former glory may have been."