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Stadium Rat 
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| Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 9:11 am)
Santa came through for me with exactly what I wanted:
Temperature Controller for Sous-vide
Merry Christmas all!
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Eddie Vedder
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 9:22 am to Stadium Rat)
very cool.
for the first time in many years, i didn't receive anything cooking related for Christmas.
of course, i did spend a good bit of money this summer/fall on sausage making equipment--books, electric meat grinder, and a vertical sausage stuffer. Guess that was my culinary christmas gift to myself!
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Aubie Spr96 
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 9:48 am to Stadium Rat)
I bet you can use the same controller for fermentation control......
Eddie, I expect some sausage discussion from you on this board. Very interested in that subject.
I finally got the stand mixer that I wanted. Looks like I finally get to make some breads!
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Stadium Rat
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 9:50 am to Aubie Spr96)
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I bet you can use the same controller for fermentation control..
The range on this is 32 to 200 degrees F.
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Eddie Vedder
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 9:57 am to Aubie Spr96)
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Eddie, I expect some sausage discussion from you on this board. Very interested in that subject.
will do. i'm pretty excited about this new hobby. i've been making boudin for a couple of years but i wouldn't put it in casing...i'd just hand chop the cooked meat/veg, mix with rice, and eat the loose meat on crackers/bread. first thing i did when i bought my equipment was make and case a batch. came out nice. just made my first batch of smoked pork sausage last weekend. not bad for a first effort but i've got some tweaking to do.
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I finally got the stand mixer that I wanted. Looks like I finally get to make some breads!
i also started doing bread this fall as well. picked up a couple of Peter Reinhart's books. i've made some really good french bread and pizza dough. tried to get a sour dough starter going but didn't cover it tight enough one night and it got flies in it...a weeks worth of countertop fermenting down the drain... 
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AmosMosesAndTwins 
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Member since Apr 2010
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 9:58 am to Stadium Rat)
Got a knife block, pretty sure I'm getting another one today too. 
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Neauxla
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 10:01 am to AmosMosesAndTwins)
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Got a knife block, pretty sure I'm getting another one today too
what kind?
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TigerWise
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 10:10 am to Stadium Rat)
I got a $100 gift card to Rouses. Not sure if I should buy something crazy or just use it for making groceries.
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Big_Al_316
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Mobile, AL
Member since Jan 2005
2904 posts
| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 10:50 am to TigerWise)
Got myself a Chargriller Akorn Kamado style grill. Smoking turkey breast on it now to go with the turkey in the Big Easy oil-less fryer, which I also got for myself. Merry Christmas to me!
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reb13 
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 11:11 am to Stadium Rat)
I got a lodge skillet and a set of knives
ETA: I am already spoiled as it is with kitchen stuff.
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SW2SCLA
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on the night shift
Member since Feb 2009
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 12:43 pm to reb13)
14 inch cuisinart wok with lid
Keurig coffee maker
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CT
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Member since Sep 2004
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 1:02 pm to Stadium Rat)
I just got a 16qt stainless stock pot.
Would cook gumbo is the grocery was open today.
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CaliforniaTiger
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 1:14 pm to Stadium Rat)
Wolfgang Puck electric skillet---got it last yr and use it very often. Great for smother frying porkchops, etc
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Dorothy
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 1:15 pm to CT)
Anyone have this? It's ridiculously long (almost 900 pages), and not really a cookbook. But the parts I've skimmed have seemed really informative...I think it's going to become something of a cooking encyclopedia in my kitchen.
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hiltacular 
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 1:15 pm to Stadium Rat)
I got a crock pot similar to what you posted. Room mate got a wok, pretty excited to use both.
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Coater
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 1:18 pm to Stadium Rat)
big green egg
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Caplewood 
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 1:33 pm to Dorothy)
love harold mcgee
best out there
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Degas
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 1:42 pm to Dorothy)
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Anyone have this?
Yes
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madamsquirrel
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 1:46 pm to hiltacular)
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I got a crock pot similar to what you posted
and some new saute pans.
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BengalBen
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| re: Post Your Best Culinary Christmas Gifts (Posted on 12/25/12 at 2:01 pm to madamsquirrel)
Upgraded and up sized the rice cooker. I never used a rice cooker until last Christmas, but they make really good rice and its so easy.
some personalized spatulas from Wms Sonoma and a new Henckel bread knife.
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