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Red Squirrel said:
Most of those deaths are probably darwinism. Some people actually do stupid things like try to use BBQs or camp fires indoors. And yeah, what you burn can also have a bad effect on the food. Probably a bad idea to smoke meat using bits of PT lumber. 😛
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We were having a discussion on meat smokers (I think it was on these forums) a while back and one guy said he used coal in his smoker :biggrin:
 
bignateyk said:
We were having a discussion on meat smokers (I think it was on these forums) a while back and one guy said he used coal in his smoker :biggrin:
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CHAR-Coal perhaps?

There are actually quite a few coal-fired pizza restaurants in New England. Similar to the wood-fired pizza ovens, coal fired ovens have their own flavor that end up in the finished product. (in addition to the smoke, specs of coal dust end up in the crust as it bakes)

In other news, everything can apparently give you cancer...
 
Scarpozzi said:
CHAR-Coal perhaps?

There are actually quite a few coal-fired pizza restaurants in New England. Similar to the wood-fired pizza ovens, coal fired ovens have their own flavor that end up in the finished product. (in addition to the smoke, specs of coal dust end up in the crust as it bakes)

In other news, everything can apparently give you cancer...
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No this guy claimed to have used actual coal as the heat source.

Coal ash is extremely toxic. There's no way the FDA or whoever inspects them would let a restaurant cook in a coal fired oven.
 
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Juddog said:
Quite good? Dominoes? I'll believe it when I taste it, and last time I tasted it, it wasn't "quite good" by any stretch of the imagination.
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We recently got Dominos here, and I'd say it's decent pizza. It's not restaurant quality (ex: Boston Pizza, Mikes, Pizza Hut etc) but for a pizza joint I'd say it's about average. It's also nice to be able to order online, for those times were you are SO lazy, you don't even want to pickup the phone. :biggrin:
 
In remote villages and city slums, women tend to fires for hours on end, breathing in smoke that is the equivalent of smoking two packs of cigarettes a day
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Well yea that would explain it. Its mostly people who cook on open pit fires, IE India slums. Not really a problem in the USA except the occasional BBQ.
 
Iron Woode said:
yup, Third World problems.

more than likely they are burning whatever they can get their hands on. No wonder they are dying.
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Red Squirrel said:
Most of those deaths are probably darwinism. Some people actually do stupid things like try to use BBQs or camp fires indoors. And yeah, what you burn can also have a bad effect on the food. Probably a bad idea to smoke meat using bits of PT lumber. 😛
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Hey guys, read the article.
 
Red Squirrel said:
We recently got Dominos here, and I'd say it's decent pizza. It's not restaurant quality (ex: Boston Pizza, Mikes, Pizza Hut etc) but for a pizza joint I'd say it's about average. It's also nice to be able to order online, for those times were you are SO lazy, you don't even want to pickup the phone. :biggrin:
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You almost had me until you mentioned Pizza Hut as "restaurant quality". Pizza Hut is pretty bad; the box is so soaked in grease that half the time you can see the grease leaking through the bottom of the box by the time they get it to your front door. I've literally had frozen pizza that tasted better than Pizza Hut (example would be the Amy's brand frozen pizza).
 
Juddog said:
You almost had me until you mentioned Pizza Hut as "restaurant quality". Pizza Hut is pretty bad; the box is so soaked in grease that half the time you can see the grease leaking through the bottom of the box by the time they get it to your front door. I've literally had frozen pizza that tasted better than Pizza Hut (example would be the Amy's brand frozen pizza).
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Maybe don't order an all meat pizza and your box won't be soaked in grease?

Their pizza is actually very decent, especially their thin crust.
 
Fritzo said:
Maybe don't order an all meat pizza and your box won't be soaked in grease?

Their pizza is actually very decent, especially their thin crust.
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I'm a vegetarian - I don't order all-meat pizza. Pizza Hut's pizza is just too greasy and too salty.

In my area there are 5 local pizza places off of the top of my head that blow pizza hut away, and these are only mid-tier pizza places, all that deliver. I can think of at least 10 restaurants in my area that serve far better pizza. I can think of frozen pizza that exceeds the quality of Pizza Hut, for example:
http://www.amys.com/products/product-detail/pizzas/000102
 
Juddog said:
Quite good? Dominoes? I'll believe it when I taste it, and last time I tasted it, it wasn't "quite good" by any stretch of the imagination.
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They usually have pretty good deals on large pizzas during the front half of the week. I can't remember when, but they launched a pretty large campaign within the past few years where they openly admitted their pizza sucked and that they had made dramatic changes and improvements.

At least as of a year ago, I've found their pizza quite good...better than the other large, comparable chains I've had. Not talking about local pizza businesses, which can often be the best in terms of taste or bang for your buck.
 
I think I remember hearing that in China before cigarettes became popular, women had higher lung cancer rates than men due to cooking.
 
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