ghost_shit@throsby After 36 hours in the brine: I have rinsed it to remove any excess salt, and rolled and bound it.
After 2.5 hours at varying temperatures, I have removed the ham from the grill, and wrapped it in foil to rest. I'll probably do a nasty Gravox gravy with added maple syrup, bourbon, apple juice, and some mustard.
Today is the day...
This is after 30 minutes at ~232C, after which I reduced the temperature to ~149C, and spritzed with bourbon, maple syrup & apple juice. The recipe suggests I keep cooking for up to 2½ hours, but the probe is telling me (after 1.5hrs) that it's already up to temperature (60C on the inside). I've turned the grill right down, and will continue to spritz on the half-hour.
Today, #COVID has spared me just enough energy to attempt a test run of the ham I want to make for Xmas Eve. I'm using this recipe for the brine, and it smells delightful (I added freshly boiled water to the ingredients to give them a bit of a head start):
https://wilsonhomestead.com/how-to-cure-ham-without-sodium-nitrite/#wprm-recipe-container-242466
Jakers KJ5AMZ*me showing off my #DMR hotspot to people at work*
me: And there's people from all over the world talking about all kinds of stuff, connected by branching networks of repeaters that blah blah blah
my radio: *loudly starts blaring a conversation between two guys from florida and a guy from the UK talking about their hip injuries and their RVs*
Here's the worst thing about editing a #DMR codeplug: realizing about 80% of the way through of your original plan that there's a smarter way to organize it and realizing you're going to have to give into the whimsy of doing that at some point.
But for now, the temporary solution is just gonna be throwing in the #DMR repeaters and talkgroups and having some fun with it.
Editing a codeplug is maybe the most tedious thing about #DMR. I suppose the good news is I'll only have to build it out further, getting all the stuff in there in the first place is kinda the hard part.
On the bright side, I've got all the analog repeaters within 100 miles of home programmed, and since I rarely go further than that, I can just add them as needed.
And now, onto the DMR repeaters/channels.
On the bright side, this repeater is line-of-sight and within about a half mile of one of my favorite #discgolf courses, so I'll be able to ragchew next time I go throw, so long as I'm still able to hop onto a given #Brandmeister TG.
Still...I'm pretty happy with where I've progressed along the #DMR learning curve thus far.
Found a great video talking through creating #DMR codeplugs for the #MD380 specifically using Editcp. The most valuable takeaway was buried about 35 minutes in: when you see the word 'Contacts', just imagine that says 'Talkgroups'.
And as a bonus, I've got a local repeater connected to the Brandmeister network, which means I should be able to access the #FediHams network over the air without a hotspot.
This #FreshHam is cookin'!
