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  1. mkopec

    Weight Loss Thread

    In order to have moist chicken breast in the crock pot or any braising for that matter, it needs to be seared off first. That goes for any muscly, non fat meat. What I would of done is cut up the chicken into bite sized chunks, pan fried them up to like 50%-70% doneness and then toss them into...
  2. mkopec

    Weight Loss Thread

    Try this in a slow cooker. I did this a week ago when I was going through my freezer and throwing old shit out. I place 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts in a crock pot(mine were frozen). I found a frozen package of kielbasa, sliced that shit up and threw it in there. There was a package of...
  3. mkopec

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Ive made jerky on one of them dryers before a few times. Best beef to use is something like a eye of round, not a lot of fat, no marbling. Eye of round is cheap too. Cut it to strips of uniform size, marinade overnight with your favorite stuff, even add some liquid smoke if you like smokey...
  4. mkopec

    Star Wars: Battlefront, as told by Dice on Frostbite 3 (PS4?/XBone?/PC?)

    Yeah, those gameplay trailers sold me. https://youtu.be/lg_ht2GfQJUCo/Op https://youtu.be/GV_N0P6t22I
  5. mkopec

    Smartphones

    Yeah I notice my wall chargers scream compared to standard usb 2.0. Its not even a contest. We have them spread throughout the house, bedroom, kitchen, living room. Fucking kids and all their cell phones and devices too, lol.
  6. mkopec

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    The key to pizza stones is never wash them and always preheat them slowly. You can scrape the crud off with a brush, but never wash them. Most of them are porous and if you wash them, even with just water, they will crack because of the water contained within heating up. Ive had my 450F rated...
  7. mkopec

    Home Improvement

    If they are cheap, use them, why not. If they are expensive, than fuck them and toe nail/screw. The floor plywood will stabilize the shit out of everything, you just dont want the thing to matchbox on you.
  8. mkopec

    Home Improvement

    Yeah thats a good point. 2x4s seem awfully limp for a floor support, even for a shed.
  9. mkopec

    Home Improvement

    For a shed? they have codes for that shit?
  10. mkopec

    Home Improvement

    Here is a nother way you could go which might be a bit cheaper to build a platform on. He uses it for a deck, but you could use it for a shed easily as well.Building The Back Deck, Part 1 - YouTube
  11. mkopec

    Home Improvement

    The way to level those stones and make them more stable is dig down some, maybe 6 in about twice the width and length of the concrete blocks. Then add some type of aggregate in the hole and use that as a base for the concrete blocks, it also helps you level them. And trust me, that thing is not...
  12. mkopec

    The Fast Food Thread

    Ive been baking my own pizza lately. I have made dough before which was excellent but I dont bother anymore with that time consuming shit. There is a gourmet Italian market like 2 miles away from my house which sells some excellent pizza dough for $1.75 per sack. Nice and fresh and really good...
  13. mkopec

    Weight Loss Thread

    Sure it does, dude, like was said its to track trends. Is my weight going up? Or is it going down. Chances are your mirror will not show you the 2-5 lbs you gained all over your body. So yeah, dont live by the scale, use it as a tool to see trends, thats all. I dont really care how much I weigh...
  14. mkopec

    Smartphones

    How is this relevant? There are new phones coming out every six months it seems so who gives a fuck? If hes happy with the s6, the s7 coming out will not change that.
  15. mkopec

    The Fast Food Thread

    Are you getting all triggered with the new rape quotes on the packets?
  16. mkopec

    Weight Loss Thread

    Down 40 so far, 10-20 more to go to get to my fighting weight and ready for this summers beeches, bitches.
  17. mkopec

    Gardening

    I used to live in the bowels of Detroit when I was younger. In the place I lived one of the back yards off my alley had this huge ass cherry tree, well huge at the time, I was like 9. I dont even think anyone lived there, or if they did they never came out. Anyway I have fond memories of me and...
  18. mkopec

    Smartphones

    Meh, only for the bigger yet not as bright screen, the Nexus 6 seems like an inferior phone in all respects to the Samsung edge.
  19. mkopec

    Tablets

    Last time I was at Costco they had those Samsung 7 or 8 inch tablets for $149. seemed like a legit deal.
  20. mkopec

    The Fast Food Thread

    As to the dark meat, yeah Ill eat it if done correctly. for instance in Indian food they use mostly dark meat, stewed in different tasting curries, or those Indo-Chinese dishes like chicken 65, or any of that Indian shit. I also like dark meat when roasted to get most of that shit tasting fat to...
  21. mkopec

    The Fast Food Thread

    Not only that its all white meat chicken, no dark shit in there.
  22. mkopec

    The Fast Food Thread

    Meh, Ive been doing the paleo thing for the past 4 months, gorging myself on flesh of animals, and all plant things, and to tell you the truth I dont even miss the breads.
  23. mkopec

    The Fast Food Thread

    I hope all this SWj shit comes to a head soon and explodes back into obscurity because this shit is just getting ridiculous. "I had a few tacos at Taco Bell last night, and suddenly, after saucing them up with some of that new diablo sauce, I just had this urge to go and rape someone."
  24. mkopec

    Refrigerators

    Just bought this one from Costco. $1300 delivered and old POS taken. LG LSXS26326S, it has pretty good reviews around the net.
  25. mkopec

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Back in the day, Flay had this BBQ show with some other redneck southern dude. And he was a total asshole to the dude. It wasnt some funny back and forth banter between the dudes, he was just straight up ass hole. It was so bad I wanted to fucking strangle him through the screen. Ever since...
  26. mkopec

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Thats the funny thing. Women meet men and fall in love with the man they meet, right? Then they spend the next X amount of years trying to change you into something they end up fucking hating. Also, 5000 post, woot!
  27. mkopec

    Smartphones

    Well to tell you the truth, Verizon has been pushing that new edge plan to everyone I know, which is pretty much the same thing. Paying full price for a phone on a payment plan with a cheaper plan. But the thing is, its OK, because these phones have pretty much topped out already, tech wise. I...
  28. mkopec

    Fallout 4

    I just hope they tighten up their shitty combat and rag doll physics in their engine. Other than that they had me at Fall....
  29. mkopec

    Home Improvement

    You can always use those concrete piers. Just level them out and set your foundation on top. It will keep the wood from contacting ground.
  30. mkopec

    Home Improvement

    Must contain dirt.
  31. mkopec

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Serrated knives are useful for shit like fresh bread and thats about it. You can get some nice hand forged Damascus knives on ebay. they come from places like Japan, india, Pakistan and and even here in the states. I was watching some videos on the proces one day and folowed some links to the...
  32. mkopec

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Fucking Amazon tracked my package for today. I was all excited to get my new akorn grill and start smoking some shit this weekend. I had it all planned out. Maybe some ribs tomorrow to break it in, then a pork butt smokeathon on sunday. Well I checked on UPS and they updated the date for Monday...
  33. mkopec

    The E-cig Thread

    Well talk in about 10 yrs, when youre coughing up brown shit, feel like shit, wheezing, and comfortably blazing a pack and a half a day since you graduated the coolness from while drinking to all day type shit.
  34. mkopec

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    My mom used to make them, and I remember potato. She used to make them sweet, though. Butter and sugar.
  35. mkopec

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Dont gnocchi traditionally have potato in them?
  36. mkopec

    Weight Loss Thread

    I dont let my fitness pal track my exercise at all. Its strictly used for calorie counting.
  37. mkopec

    The E-cig Thread

    I will tonight, i have them written down at home. I have one for 20mg and one for 3-4mg for the sub ohm tanks.
  38. mkopec

    Weight Loss Thread

    Like I said, it should all be done by weight. But sadly its not. I look shit up on fitness pal all the time and most of the shit is measured by volume, which is fucking stupid. That being said, yes it compounds, but if you are tracking and are within 30-50 calories, youre doing ok and better...
  39. mkopec

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    This post made me go out and buy a kamado grill. Yeah, not a egg, because fuck paying a grand for a grill, but nevertheless I got one finally. also some temp measuring gear.
  40. mkopec

    The E-cig Thread

    Hand Check!