Crock of Time

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Beef brisket in a vacuum bag with whole spices and Morton Tender Quick.
Sliced beets and chilies in a vacuum bag.
Bottle of hot sauce labelled "Sampson's" in front of larger full containers. A green chili and an origami dog sit in front.
A drop of sauce held up on a small white plate to check it's viscosity.
Various bowls with sauce and solids.
Food mill has very little solids left after passing the deseeded smoked chilies through.
Dried chilies simmering in a pot.
Fermented chili mash in a blender.
A large basket of variously shaped ripe chilies next to a bowl of dried chilies and a long sealed bag, slightly puffy, filled with chili mash and labelled "hot sauce".
Pan about 25% full of smooth tomato sauce.
Same pot, now half full of what looks like tomato sauce with a lot of skins in it.
A 4 quart pot full to the brim with tomatoes, orange cherries on top.
An array of tomatoes spread onto a countertop, many still on the vine. There are a few beefsteaks in the top left and a bowl of orange cherries center left, the rest are paste tomatoes.
Photo of a bottle of deep red hot sauce. The hand-written label reads "Firefruit Embers, 2022–2023".
A quart mason jar full to the brim with smoked and dried chilies.
5 round dehydrator trays with chilies spread across each with little if any overlap.
Chilies on the grill looking darker and slightly dried out.
Grill open and grate folded over to expose the coals, a small flame peeks out.
Smoke pours out of the exhaust port in the lid. The built-in thermometer shows a temperature between 150 and 200.
Open circular Webber grill with pans of chilies stacked on one side. Below the grate on the other side is a steel half-moon insert with charcoal and wood chips inside and a trough on the flat side for water to promote steam.
Halved chilies spread in 3 perforated grill pans of different shapes, one tray-like, one square with deep slanted sides, and one wok-shaped.
A basket full of bright red chilies of all different varieties. Some long and fat like poblanos, some long, skinny, and shriveled like cayenne, and other shapes and sizes.
My logbook, a lined notebook with messy writing and parts crossed out. Another notebook, open for reference, is mostly cropped out.
A rustic caprese salad with hand-torn buffalo mozzarella, basil stalks laid next to the bowl. In front is a small vial of tomato vinegar with a hand-printed label.
One quart and one pint mason jar of tomato sauce in front of 2 bowls full of tomatoes.
A jar of koji-kin broken on the floor.
Plate of fatty corned beef with roasted potatoes, carrots, and bok choy.
A pan of roasted potatoes, carrots, and bok choy.
Corned beef in a Dutch oven after about 10 hours of cooking at a low temperature in the oven. The liquid has reduced and the meat has roasted.
Dark beer is poured into a Dutch oven with the corned beef. The camera pans out to reveal that the beer is Negra Modelo, not Guinness.
Corned beef with the fat cap down sizzling in a Dutch oven.
Beef with a thick fat cap sealed in a vacuum bag with whole spices.
A think brown paste with a crystalized salty top is cracked and dug into like a creme brulee.
Cory holding up a vacuum-sraled bag containing a prime rib roast the size of his head.
Photo of a serving plate piled with turkey breasts, thighs, and wings, with crispy roasted skin.
Screenshot of my bluesky lists: Science Syndicate The Food Folk Grower's Guild Band of Brewers Sourdough Society Fermentation Federation
Leo pointing "yes that's it"
Photo of a prepackaged natto, stainless steel chopsticks, and a large mug of tea with a scene from Chrono Trigger on it.
Plate of homemade corned beef hash topped with eggs over easy, whole grain mustard, and hot sauce, with a slice of well-buttered soda bread on the side. A Twin Peaks Sheriff Department mug full of coffee (black as the sky on a moonless night) looms next to the plate.
Small jar of a light orange/beige mayo in the sunlight from a window.
Screenshot of the game Pentiment, a monastery cellar with hanging meats, crocks and jugs, wheels of cheese, and various baskets in a hand-drawn and painted style.
Beef brisket, corned and sealed in a vacuum bag. It is not neon pink.
Beef brisket in a vacuum bag surrounded by spices. Tender Quick is used for the curing salt and a jar of shiokoji sits to the side.
Caramel boiling in a tall saucepan on the stove. It looks like, but this is the color we're shooting for.
Whey reducing in a saucepan collecting ricotta curds.
Bowl of fresh cottage cheese next to a container of curds.
Curds draining in butter muslin in a collander.
Photo of cheese curds separating from whey in a pot on a stove. They aren't very uniform in size.