Retired, living in Western Mass. Enjoy music, cooking and my family.
Current cookers Weber Spirit 3 burner with a full insert griddle added. A 22" Kettle with vortex SnS and OnlyFire pizza oven. A Smokey Joe and the most recent addition a Pit Barrel Jr with bird hanger, 4 hooks and cover. ThermoWorks Smoke 2 probe, DOT, ThermoPops and a Thermapen MK4. 3 TempSpike wireless meat thermometers.
Went to a grocery store today. As you'll see it is Market Basket. A family owned business. There are 79 stores in MASS, N.H. and ME. I used to live 15 minutes away. Now it's a 40 minute trek to the nearest store in Athol MA, but worth the trip.They actually carry Prime Beef but mainly Choice is stocked. And their fishmonger is top notch. So spent a bit of time in the butcher section. Here's part of what was purchased. Yea, there was more but mainly stuff my wife picked.
I dropped this in General Discussion as I did not see a channel specific to what did you overspend on.
You were thinking I'll take one of them, and one of them, and that looks good, and oh yeah... I been there. The wife won't let me out by myself anymore...
Scotch: Current favorite- The Arran (anything by them), Glenmorangie 12yr Lasanta, sherry cask finished. The Balvenie Double Wood, also like Oban 18yr, and The Glenlivet Nadurra (Oloroso sherry cask finished) among others. Neat please.
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Location: Farwell, Michigan - near Clare (dead center of lower peninsula).
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Healthcare- Licensed & Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) at MyMichigan Health, a University of Michigan Health System.
Large Big Green Egg, Weber Performer Deluxe, Weber Smokey Joe Silver, Fireboard Drive, 3 DigiQs, lots of Thermapens, and too much other stuff to mention.
I've done that! Especially when I see a really nicely marbled rib roast, or prime briskets. Right now I'm trying to empty the freezer because we have a new one ordered, so no new purchases for another week or two.
> Weber Genesis EP-330
> Grilla Grills Original Grilla (OG) pellet smoker with Alpha/Connect
> Grilla Grills Pellet Pizza Oven
> Pit Barrel Cooker (gone to a new home)
> WeberQ 2000 (on "loan" to a relative (I'll never see it again))
> Old Smokey Electric (for chickens mostly - when it's too nasty out
to fiddle with a more capable cooker)
> Luhr Jensen Little Chief Electric - Top Loader circa 1990 (smoked fish & jerky)
> Thermoworks Smoke
> 3 Thermoworks Chef Alarms
> Thermoworks Thermapen One
> Thermoworks Thermapen Classic
> Thermoworks Thermopop
> Thermoworks IR-GUN-S
> Anova sous vide circulator
> Searzall torch
> BBQ Guru Rib Ring
> WÜSTHOF, Dalstrong, and Buck knives
> Paprika App on Mac and iOS
Lonestar Grillz 24x36 offset smoker, grill, w/ main chamber charcoal grate and 3 tel-tru thermometers - left, right and center
Yoke Up custom charcoal basket and a Grill Wraps cover.
22.5 copper kettle w/ SnS, DnG, BBQ vortex, gasket and stainless steel hinge kit.
Napoleon gas grill (soon to go bye bye) rotting out.
1 maverick et-733 digital thermometer - black
1 maverick et-733 - gray
1 new standard grilling remote digital thermometer
1 thermoworks thermopen mk4 - red
1 thermoworks thermopop - red
Pre Miala flavor injector
taylor digital scale
TSM meat grinder
chefs choice food slicer
cuisinhart food processor
food saver vacuum sealer
TSM harvest food dehydrator
I have a Charbroil gas grill, Big Easy, Large gas smoker and small electric smoker, GMG Davy Crockett pellet grill. I also have a 160L Cabelas dehydrator which I use for beef jerky.
Retired, living in Western Mass. Enjoy music, cooking and my family.
Current cookers Weber Spirit 3 burner with a full insert griddle added. A 22" Kettle with vortex SnS and OnlyFire pizza oven. A Smokey Joe and the most recent addition a Pit Barrel Jr with bird hanger, 4 hooks and cover. ThermoWorks Smoke 2 probe, DOT, ThermoPops and a Thermapen MK4. 3 TempSpike wireless meat thermometers.
Well went to Market Basket again, It's been awhile Covid and such. Not as crazy as last time. Brisket and short ribs which I did a blended grind 70/30 for burgers. Tri-Tip nice 3#. In the case all they had was tri-tip steak. Butcher cut it for me. Sirloin steak tips and 2 strip steaks. All choice and all but the brisket was labeled C.A.B.
Edit update; my wife's went to local farmers market in town this morning. Local farm, actually half mile from house is there. Do business with them for meat and veggies. He had a steer harvested this week at the chop house. He's terminology not mine. She got another tri-tip and flank steak. Both 20 oz. Nice.
I've wondered about Market Baskets. We have them here and they say they are a local chain but the ones here in SE Texas and SW La. use the same logo/font as the labels in your pictures. I've seen vintage photos from California that look the same as our local ones. Are they a nationwide family owned business? Franchise? One of the ones here is called Bruce's Market Basket. From what I've heard, several local grocers, including Bruce, got together and formed the Market Basket chain here back in the late 50s or 60s. One prominent member was Howard Hatfield who at one time had the largest privately owned grocery store in the nation. He even covered his entire parking lot (the parking lot is still there with the cover but the store burned down 10-12 years ago after being abandoned for years).
The ones here do not have a fresh seafood counter (and we are near the Gulf??) and their "good" meat is select, albeit Angus. I've tried the pretty display steaks a few times and they were good but on the tough side.
58limited, this chain is a family owned going back a 100 plus years. Looking at their web site they say 85 stores (when I 1st posted in 18' it was 79). All in New England. I don't see the connection to what you referenced based on their web site. But I've been wrong one other time.
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