I’m always curious what everyone does for a profession in these groups. It is always cool to see how diverse we are. I am a State Trooper and have been since 2007. Prior to that I worked many years in home construction and taught second grade right out of college.

BBQ RULES:
We are about to enter the BBQ season. Therefore it is important to refresh your memory on the etiquette of this sublime outdoor cooking activity . When a man volunteers to do the BBQ the following chain of events are put into motion:

(1) The woman buys the food.

(2) The woman makes the salad, prepares the vegetables, and makes dessert.

(3) The woman prepares the meat for cooking, places it on a tray along with the necessary cooking utensils and sauces, and takes it to the man who is lounging beside the grill - beer in hand.

(4) The woman remains outside the compulsory three meter exclusion zone where the exuberance of testosterone and other manly bonding activities can take place without the interference of the woman.

Here comes the important part:
(5) THE MAN PLACES THE MEAT ON THE GRILL.

(6) The woman goes inside to organize the plates and cutlery.

(7) The woman comes out to tell the man that the meat is looking great. He thanks her and asks if she will bring another beer while he flips the meat

Important again:
(8) THE MAN TAKES THE MEAT OFF THE GRILL AND HANDS IT TO THE WOMAN.

(9) The woman prepares the plates, salad, bread, utensils, napkins, sauces, and brings them to the table.

(10) After eating, the woman clears the table and does the dishes

And most important of all:
(11) Everyone PRAISES the MAN and THANKS HIM for his cooking efforts.

(12) The man asks the woman how she enjoyed ’ her night off ', and, upon seeing her annoyed reaction, concludes that there’s just no pleasing some women

The first people to respond to this topic and tell me what size you want will get a free t-shirt sent to you, while supplies last.

I only have a few shirts, so it will be first come first served.

Only 1 t-shirt per user. If we don’t have enough people respond, I will open it up for multiple per user.

Here are the sizes and quantity up for grabs:
3T - 1
4T - 3
5/6 - 1

If they go quickly, I will consider adding more and keeping them in stock like our adult sizes.

Here is my son wearing one!

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We are trying to install something that will allow people to mark posts as a ? and then we can select the answer and it will go to the top! We are trying to install it right now so the site might be down for a few minutes.

Okay, sorry guys, I dont know yet what had happened but I notified the company that hosts this and they finally figured it out. We can finally post again!

Just FYI I have begun posting to both Walton’s and Meatgsitcs Minds.com accounts. It’s a slightly different social media thing and I just want to see if it will do anything. I am planning on being the person in control of that account so, if you are already on Minds check us out. If you aren’t I really don’t know that another Social Media account is necessary. I am planning on using these accounts as more of a Hack or Tip place where I can share short quick helpful meat processing tips.

https://www.minds.com/waltonsinc/
https://www.minds.com/meatgistics/

So, you might have noticed Austin and I have not been on Meatgistics for a few days. That is because we were furiously working behind the scenes to get the new version of waltons.com (waltonsinc.com still works but as of now we are waltons.com!) and hoping to launch it today. Sadly, we had a few issues with payment processing so we are not going live today. Austin and I are looking at next Tuesday now so we can have everything perfect for it. If the payment processing gets fixed early enough today we MIGHT go live tomorrow, but in all likelihood, we will hold off until Tuesday.

Couple of new features of the new waltons.com will be A) you can use multiple coupons sometimes, 2 10% off coupons wont work, butif we have a free shirt or hat coupon and you want to use that with your 10% off you will be able to do so. B) infinite shopping lists. This means you could potentially create all the shopping lists you want for the entire year and then just go through and place the order as needed. C) Better connection to videos and meatgistics content. I am sure there are others but I need to get back and work on getting it live!

My pk100. Temp is off by 100 degrees. Is it the temperature wire or is it the temperature control box. If it is the wire where is it ?

On the app for this forum, how do you get the person’s name to appear in blue when you are mentioning them? I did a search on how to do it but couldn’t find what I was looking for. Thanks in advance!

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So, I learned that Kansas has badgers and I was wondering if anyone knew what a badger den looked like? Dogs did NOT want to leave this area and Brutus was acting like a he was.nervous and Wiggins was being unusually aggressive while we were near it. Can’t think of any other small den animals that would have them acting like that? Probably just bunnies and I have weird.dogs.

Just watched the review and now the dilemma… Argh.

Currently have the Butcher Series #22, which will drive the 44# mixer ( have not used this since snapping one of the paddles off. Weston did send me a new one but very poor design and weld ).

I’m loving the look of the Walton’s #22. Grind head sits higher and the tray is much larger without that silly guard. This obviously will not drive the 44# mixer. The 50# mixer appears to be of much better quality with the paddles angled better and the tilt feature is just the cats a$$.

Think I see a change coming up with the Butcher Series, 44# and 20# mixer heading to a for sale list. Hmm.

Sorry… Guess I’m just thinking out loud.

Has anyone ever went back to your purchase history and added up what you have spent in Waltons. Made a sizable order last night and was going through the page and found previous purchases. I found waltons last year, my first purchase was in april 2019. So far spent $1800. Not too shabby…lol

My office for the afternoon. These coworkers are lazy though!
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There’s just something not right about me having to chip the ice and snow off my Primo Grill before I can cook. This is south Texas. And the wind chill is -6’F. Who even invented -6"F? So much for global warming…

I have recently purchased a smoke pistol with cartridges.
To add to my Master built smoker so I could cold smoke an have smoke for up to 4 hours. My question is has anyone used one of these and end up with a tar like smoke flavor? I have used it twice now an both times the food is just about non-edible.
The Second time I tried running the fan on low but couldn’t keep it Burning. So I only got about 25 minutes of smoke an it stilled the tar taste or really strong smoke. I have noticed that the cup you put the Cartridge in has sticky tar like substance in it.
Is this me or how it works dose anyone else used one of these?
And have the same problem.

When is the February live stream ??

Jonathon I haven’t received any emails for about 36 hours? Did I somehow change something?

Austin Jonathon I know that this community is focused on meat processing and having a lot of fun along the way. I have so enjoyed this community, both from an education as well as a friendly entertainment standpoint. I Pray that this post does not cause problems in the community, one which I an so proud to be part of.

Recent decisions from Facebook and Twitter have resulted in me evaluating their social media platforms. I can no longer support their positions and I will remove myself from both. There are many companies that I do not support and carefully screen those that I do business with. I will not support companies that contribute to causes that violate my my value systems.

Respectively, I ask that Walton’s withdraw from Twitter and Facebook. Their platform is no longer friendly to what I believe the Walton’s and Meatgistics community value system supports. I may be 100% wrong, but I will no longer follow Walton’s nor Meatgistics on Facebook or Twitter.

I appreciate your consideration in this matter. I am 100% a Walton’s supporter as well as a proud member of Meatgistics. I’ll always will be.

Hi guys, this is a post for new people to the site who are wondering what the crazy @teamblue and @teamorange stuff is about. Basically, about 2 years ago (really, has it been that long!) I convinced Austin to get some none orange hats and we ordered the blue and white mesh hats. I loved that hat but austin prefered the Orange and grey one. We got to talking about it on a livestream and to give everyone something non-meat related to have fun with we created two groups that are called Team Blue and Team Orange. You can sign up for the teams by going here https://meatgistics.waltonsinc.com/groups?sort=count and then you can select what badges show next to your name in your profile.

By the way, there are other badges that can be shown. I know some of you have gotten to either regular contributor or power user status and haven’t selected to show that. So, you can go to your profile and select which badges show for you. If you want to selectr multiple just hold down the shift or ctrl key when selecting them, that will let you show more or hide ones you dont want.