Ribs today pizza Thursday

[Randy]

Thin Crust Thursday but got to have ribs today.
http://www.pitcooking.com/smf/index.php?topic=65.0

[Foccaciaman]

Had ribs for dinner yesterday myself.

[Pizzaholic]

Well, I had ribs rubbed and ready for the smoker on Sunday. Get up early to start Stokken the flame, then
BEEEP, BEEEP, BEEEP
Off to work after only about a half hour of cooking time.
BUMMMMMR
Asked the wife to take over
Needless to say that they were finished in the oven, and actually turned out pretty well. Have 3 slabs in the freezer for emergency use.
We did peter Rs chicago style on Sat, one with the New pizza screens that I got
Wow what a difference
I also added a tsp or 2 of my sourdough to the recipe cause I made the dough that day. It turned out real good for less than a day of fermenting
Pizzaholic

[Foccaciaman]

Used my new screen yesterday on a 16' New York 8.5 minutes cooking time and cheese  just finished melting and half of crust was completely burnt on the bottom . Bummer.  
Ate a few slices anyway. Even burnt pizza is better than no pizza....

[Randy]

The radiant heat from the bottom element is reduced by the inverse square of the distance so use the next highest rack and it should be perfect.

Randy

[Pierre]

Randy, maybe you could show that as a diagram?!  

that's the engineer in Randy.... havn't heard something like that since highschool.    But your right, I think...... or at least I wish I could say I knew you are right there.

We'll have to take Randy's word for that. I don't feel like straining my brain too much tonight.

Pierre

[Randy]

Here you go.
http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/CommunityCollege/Radiography/Physics/inversesquare.htm

Randy

[Pierre]

do you remember the scene in "the Wizard of Oz" where the scarecrow get his brains in form of a honaray degree?.. and recites the following mathematical equation;

 "The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side."


Pierre

[Randy]

 
He was new to thinking and everyone is allowed one mistake.  I wonder if it was right in the script, I bet it was.
In this case  although the inverse square is related to a point source it works well for our kitchen and barbecuing.  This only applies to radiant heat from the element as you know.

Randy

[Pierre]

you made me curious about whether that was correct or not what the scarecrow recites and I looked it up. It was wrong in a sense, but read for yourselves:

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/6396/ozmath.htm


Pierre

[DKM]

The writer who put in the script put it in wrong and nobdy ever check it.

I have lots of Oz books.

DKM

[Pierre]

Focacciaman, did Randy's tip help you with your new oven? or do you still have to adjust your recipe as well to prevent the crust from burning?

Pierre

[Foccaciaman]

Actually tip worked great.
Its funny you can think of doing something a hundred times over but until someone flat out tells you to try it you don't.
Making another New Yorker for lunch tommorow.
Wish the wife liked deep dish, I just don't get enough chance to make it for myself.