Ninja Woodfire Outdoor Stove

badjak said:
I had to get used to different cuts, going to anglo saxon countries and/or their colonies.
Mainland Europe cuts differently.
Including of Spain & Poetugal so I'm sure karadekoolaid will chime in as well.
Picana, secreto...
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I have spent quite a lot of time looking up whatever cut I’ve picked up in Spain and often not coming up with a decent answer. In the end I found the answer ‘If in doubt slow cook it’ 😆

What surprised me most was how much tougher a lot of their meat is because they slaughter a bit later than we do in the UK.
 
20-30 years ago there where local butcher shops and they had "real butchers" that knew their meats and how to cut it , but sadly today all we have is 3-4 giant corps that precut most meats and send it out to our supermarkets in big sections and in there what we have is what i call "meat cutters" not butchers and they don't know a prime rib from a flank steak , i have even seen some weird looking steak being passed off as a T-bone of all things , that was at our local market , i grabbed it and opened the door to where the guy was wrapping meat in plastic wrap and threw it at him and told him "oh hell no don't even try to sell this crap as T-bone " and walked away
never saw whatever cut that was in the meat case again . i say we are paying for it, don't let them cheat you
 
grumpyoldman said:
i grabbed it and opened the door to where the guy was wrapping meat in plastic wrap and threw it at him and told him "oh hell no don't even try to sell this crap as T-bone " and walked away
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I’ve gotten in quite a few heated discussions with the Kroger “butchers,” but I’ve yet to throw a steak at them. :laugh:
 
Sometimes it appears life is listening to you and likes to have a little fun.
After the conversation yesterday about a rack of ribs in the UK usually meaning what you call baby back ribs and that over here spare ribs are pretty much always sold cut into individual ribs I had a surprise.

Mr SSOAP picked the three racks I ordered from the butcher on Thursday and put them in the bottom of the fridge, they were mixed up with a kilo of chicken thigh fillets, a kilo of pork and a kilo of pork fat but I could still see from the tail end poking out that they were BIG for baby back ribs…
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Never happened to me EVER before but yep I got spare ribs in one piece!!
Of course I did, I said yesterday it doesn’t really happen here so life laughed and here we are 😆
Looking forward to it.

So yes you can fit a rack of spare ribs in the Woodfire XL. Using the rib rack four of the hefty buggers 😂
 
karadekoolaid said:
That's the Brazilian name; over here it's called Punta Trasera. Everything is different here, and butchers cut the meat in their own particular way. Flank steak is called skirt here; no-one knows what a Porterhouse or T-bone is... it's just crazy!
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Here they are convinced porterhouse has no bone in it....
And they try to sell Y-bone without the fillet part

[Edited to say: that should obviously be T-bone]
 
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now thats a nice looking slab of spare ribs !!! there is a peice of back bone that i always remove before smoking them , you will need to remove it so that you will be able to cut the ribs apart at that end . i just find it then follow along it with a sharp knife and smoke it next to the ribs
looking at the picture i think on those ribs its runs from the end to about rib number 5
these bones are always little different in length
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
The smoking is complete!
I cut a corner off each block for immediate sampling and oof it's smokey!
I can see that it does need a week or two for the flavour to mellow and develop through the cheese.
At the moment it's very promising 🤞
The spicy cream cheese taste is good and ready to eat straight away 😋
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In the app you have to give your appliance a name or identifier (in case you want add another Ninja oven) so I'm pleased to introduce to Mr Marley, named after the great smoker the one and only Bob Marley.

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and finished. I broke the feta picking it up in a daft way!

A couple of initial comments -
The ninja pellets are as all the reviewers say stupidly expensive compared with other better offerings. You do burn thought a lot of them in a short period so the Ninja branded ones are not a wise buy.

The power cord is ridiculously short. It must have been a deliberate choice by the manufacturers because everything else is so well thought out 🤷‍♀️

The pellet hopper is small and needs topping up every 40-60 mins but you don't have to open the lid or interfere with the chamber to top up the pellets, it's all very simple to use and to clean.

The app is great. Also simple to use and nice to have a quick check on your phone to see how long is left, I like the notifications telling you it's finished and that it switches itself off.

I'll be needing a second table for just outside the utility door as I can already tell this is going to be in use as an oven in the kitchen area even more than out on the patio as a BBQ!

All in all so far so good!
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Looks great. I only have one Ninja product and it is their heavy duty blender and it is a beast. Very powerful.
 
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