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Personally I'd scrap the tinfoil and use a skewer on the shrooms instead. Just beware of flare-ups if you coat them in olive oil. As for other grilling ideas, do you have a particular type of meat you want to do? Also, what style of grill will you be using?

If you have leftover green peppers or anything else like that you want to add, just sweat the veggies with the onions.

I don't buy lean anything, nothing that is fat free, nothing that is sugar free, nothing low fat, but I do buy everything in as natural of a state as possible. If you get too lean of beef it won't brown quite as well even though for what you are doing you don't need the fatty stuff like you would if you were cooking on the grill. If you have other questions fire away. I am not really one to use "recipes" per se, but like to go by feel which does make it a bit hard to give a recipe. Conveniently though Chili is a great thing to make by going by feel. One other aside, using ground beef is probably better for freezer chili than real steak anyways. Something about reheating steak that bothers me. I would recommend avoiding the microwave for reheating though. If it were me, I'd freeze it in vacuum sealed bags of the right serving size and just drop them in boiling water for ~10 minutes until it is hot to reheat. When the tomatoes are really in season, try the same thing but use a piece of sirloin steak cubed and fresh tomatoes instead of canned. You may need a little water to thin it or add liquid as well, but mmm. Lastly, I forgot to tell you how to thicken the chili. You can use the lazy mans way and use chili paste which I am not a particular fan of, or just go ahead and take some corn tortilla chips (the kind you get with salsa at a Mexican restaurant) and crumble them up in the chili. They will disappear, thicken and add an extra layer of flavor that I think is great. Sort of my secret ingredient. (my other one is to use beer instead of water to liquify the fresh tomatoes.

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My definition of chili is a wee bit different. I don't use any canned anything and no ground beef, making your own chili powder well actually paste isn't the easiest thing though. For what you are looking for the real key is how you brown the ground beef. By brown I don't mean turn gray. You need a no stick pan and a little fat of some sort and need to brown the meat sort of like how you would see a piece of toast coming out of the toaster. There should be crumblies and morsels of crunchy stuff all over the pan. Doing the meat in smaller batches is key. A non non-stick pan is a pre-requisite, cast iron might be ideal. Before browning the meat, sweat some onions and maybe garlic if you like in a pan. By sweat, I mean use some kosher salt and unsalted butter and fry them until they turn translucent. Remove from the pan and start to brown the meat. After the meat is browned, you can spoon the fat out of the pan and then add a combination of smashed canned tomatoes, tomato sauce. I'd personally lean towards using all whole tomatoes from a can. Just take and mash them through your fingers as you add them and the juice they were in. Add enough to make it look like the right consistency. Then add enough beans to where it looks appetizing. At this point, get the whole mess boiling and then turn the heat down to simmer. Now is the time to stir in Chili powder while tasting along the way. Add chili powder to taste and heat level. If you need more salt add some, I really, really recommend Kosher salt. In particular the Diamond Crystal brand. (whenever you cook meat, use it. Really. You can use WAY more kosher than table salt and it is much better for you too). This isn't my recipe for Chili powder, but this one will work fine. Remember all of the flavor in Chili comes from the browning of the beef and the chili powder. If you use crap beef and don't brown it or shitty chili powder the chili will be bad. I stole this off the net since I am sitting in a hotel room, but more or less I do the same thing. The real key is real chili's and fresh cumin. Everything else is extra, but can add nice flavors. Beware when seeding chilis to where some rubber gloves and don't touch your eyes!! I cut them in half and the scrape the insides out with a knife. If I am really lazy (regularly) I cheat and just put the chilis through my juicer and use chili juice instead of powder for flavor. Adding some paprika and cumin for flavor. If you have an organic co-op you can buy fresh enough cumin to where you don't have to roast it yourself. 3 ancho chiles, stemmed, seeded and sliced 3 cascabel chiles, stemmed, seeded and sliced 3 dried arbol chiles, stemmed, seeded and sliced 2 tablespoons whole cumin seeds 2 tablespoons garlic powder 1 tablespoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon smoked paprika Place all of the chiles and the cumin into a medium nonstick saute pan or cast iron skillet over medium-high heat. Cook, moving the pan around constantly, until you begin to smell the cumin toasting, approximately 4 to 5 minutes. Set aside and cool completely. Once cool, place the chiles and cumin into the carafe of a blender along with the garlic powder, oregano, and paprika. Process until a fine powder is formed. Allow the powder to settle for at least a minute before removing the lid of the carafe. Store in an airtight container for up to 6 months.

IMO active can actually be cheaper than passive assuming that you have an active capable headunit. You end up spending more on amps, but less on speakers to get the same quality. I would say that 2k referred to 3 way and 4 way, but conventionally people will call those 2way and 3way as they don't count the sub. If you haven't ever done an active setup though I would recommend a simple 2way + sub and use fairly mundane drivers. Exotic cones and anomalies in the frequency response will create both crossover and eq'ing issues that are eventually easy to deal with but for the first time I would recomend you keep it simple. The other beauty of active setups is that you can easily buy used drivers and sell them for about what you paid for them. Something that is not so easy with stock components. It is a lot more fun and customizable as well. I haven't actually heard a set of components that I would even think of running for more than 5 times the budget of the drivers that I bought and are running active. If you are truly into SQ or have any particular portion of the musical spectrum you would like to focus on reproducing the best active is by far the most flexible and best solution for you. Setting up a system isn't trivial though, but there are some of us here who would surely help.

One warning on the rack mounts, a lot of them have fans that make me want to put them in a different room. I have never seen a plate amp with that problem though.

Don't forget the HTGuide http://www.htguide.com/forum/forumdisplay.php4?f=6 edit: Lots of Dayton speaker DIY designs and other speaker projects

Wow and I barely made it.

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normal shifting: clutch in, move shifter from whatever gear to reverse, let clutch out double clutch: clutch in, move shifter from whatever gear to neutral, let clutch out, clutch in, move shifter from neutral to reverse, let clutch out Try this: Clutch in go to first, then directly into reverse. Should go in without doubling. yes

You could run dual 18's for the price of the 15 almost.

I don't think it does , I haven't really played with it much . Ah. Do you have your inlaws running a passive set then? yep Hmm, you could change that

You da man. Thanks!

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I think you'd be better off with the 15's in your truck.

mmm naked!

Terrible idea.

You are going to love that setup!

An E34 BMW 535i would be a super reliable, fun to drive and just begs for a 3way diy front stage.

I made it back, but can't catch up now. Have to go take what is mine and do what I will with it. I leave for chitown tomorrow early in the morning and won't have another chance until Friday.

See you guys when I get out of the woods. Have a good weekend!

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Holy crap. We make a product that is used to figure out the resonance of aircraft before they leave the ground. Here is a resonance test that really didn't need our equipment. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6055303336171660489