I worked for 3 years in Walton's Customer Service department, I have probably spoken with a good deal of people visiting this page in one way or another! I am now the Media Manager for Walton's Inc, and a moderator for Meatgsitcs.com. Team Blue!
Im originally from upstate New York and before I worked here I had never made homemade Sausage before. Now I love processing and the satisfaction that comes from eating or serving a well made homemade Snack Stick, Summer Sausage, Bratwurst, etc.
I like to think I eat healthy and sometimes do, but the truth is I am weak when it comes to food so I am somewhat fat again!
Austin and I talked about changing the name of the Walton’s Community to the Meatgistics Community, as this is your guys place to post recipes, tips & tricks, ask questions and just share your cooking or drinking experiences!
Well, it is now the Meatgistics Community so rejoice!
I just finished sales and giveaway for December so I could finish what we want to put on sale for our Christmas Sale and this is one you guys will want to enter if you don’t normally as I am planning n giving away a Chambered Vacuum Sealer to 1 lucky winner! Now, this is well over the $600 value so the winner will have to fill out the dreaded paperwork so they can claim it on their taxes, but still, someone is walking away with a nice unit for the month of December!
So, I took Thursday and Friday off from work! I needed it, needed a little bit of time away to try to recharge my battery a little and do some stuff around the house. I had been hoping to spend most of that time working on the house with my wife but her plant was plagued with issues, so we got to spend a little less time together than I had hoped. Ate too much, had a few drinks and slept in (7 am!) every day!
I have trouble doing nothing for more than a few hours and we wanted to do some upgrades to the house, so we decided to make up for not doing anything on the outside of the house for the last 2 years by redoing the front landscaping.
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Departing Contestant gets a hat, Deepwoodsbutcher gets a board, Dave in AZ Denny O get knives HerbcoFood gets a shirt!
Tex_77 1st, dont be ridiculous, Brutus is a 186 lb killing machine, who hides from loud noises like trucks, pots dropping and is also afraid of sewers and for sale signs. Riggins was a fighting dog before we got him so he deserves to be soft if he wants now!
Okay, Rachel has the upvote button disappearing when you have already clicked it, we toyed with it being highlighted in yellow but it didn’t look very good, so disappears when you upvote, then if you downvote it by mistake or something the upvote reappears and the downvote disappears. So, anyone see any questions on this in the next few weeks/months be sure to let them know what it means.
Lol, I posted this last night from my phone to the wrong one! I was tired, what else can I say?
Okay, so my quarter came in, I’ll have more info in a larger post tomorrow. I cooked a t-bone tonight that was thick, to put it mildly! Gonna take a bit of adjustment on steaks this thick to get the perfect reverse sear. It was still delicious! Cabelas90 it was a good deal in my opinion!
Thank you for all you have done for this country and all you will be asked to do in the future! I have created the group US Veterans for anyone who wants to join, this way a badge will show on your posts. Sorry, we should have thought of creating this group years ago. We will have a 10% off coupon emailed to anyone who joins this group!
For everyone else, we rely on everyone’s honor to not claim something that isn’t yours.
Hey guys, finally a few quick minutes away from what I have been working on and I wanted to let you guys know I heard from my brother Dr_Pain today. I know Chef posted about it recently but I don’t know if that thread went into detail about how wrongly things went after the initial success. My man has been SERIOUSLY sick for a while, a few times close to Death (his words) due to problems with the initial surgery.
The good news is that when they had to go back in they were able to make a change so it looks like he should heal and not need the bag in about 6 months. He said he was delerious with 103° fever for a few days. He said I appeared to him with wings of ivory and gold and told him that through sausage he shall find god…okay, that last bit isn’t true!
Ive got some things going for him but all in all I think he just wanted to let everyone know he is alright! If Chef has already updated all of you on this I apologize, this is only the 3rd time I have been able to log in all week, which sucks but is SO MUCH BETTER than what Claude has been going through. Things like this really help me concentrate on being thankful for my health!
glen No, we changed services, are you going to waltons.com/win what are you seeing that isnt working?
RafterW The government doesn’t have money, they have our money. So no matter what they are doing with it, it should be transparent. I remember 2008 when we were told that the bailouts would come with stipulations and regulations. Then they used that money to lobby politicians to prevent that from happening and we got nothing. Not getting political here but those names should be public information.
hunters stick The higher you can get the relative humidity the quicker you can get through the stall, as higher humidity will make it harder for the water to evaporate off of the surface of your snack sticks meaning it won’t be able to cool itself efficiently and you will get the temp up quicker.
processhead Nope, we don’t have those, that must be an old image that has been in the catalog for a long time. My guess is that is an old hydraulic stuffer tube because the new vacuum and hydraulic ones are all tapered slightly. Thanks for spotting that, we have a ticket open to remove it from the upcoming one.
hunters stick You can add automotive sponges to a water pan and leave them standing up so as much of it is sticking out as possible. This increases the surface area for evaporation and increases the relative humidity. Or you can also use a wicking towel, that you drape out of the pan, this works a little better but you need to have something below the pan to prevent it from dropping water on the bottom if you have an electric coil at the bottom. We will have a towel for this in 2023 at some poiunt
Ridley Acres Lol, yes. That one was easy, I just put that on the monthly though, I didn’t feel like it needed it for the wheel of destiny (the new non-official name) because this is just something we are trying to do as a fun little value add.
Okay, I am hoping that the issue is that I made it one way, tried to change the entry options and it just didn’t like that. So, I set up a new one and put it on waltons.com/win so go there, you will have the ability to enter, then please try again tomorrow and we will see if it lets people enter everyday. I also increased the chances of winning slightly.
According to the developers midnight reset is the way it goes…so, it seems like maybe something else is wrong with the way I have it setup. Will work on it.
Tex_77 OOOHHH am I gonna have fun with https://www.drovers.com/news/ag-policy/usda-withholds-names-farm-subsidy-payment-recipients next podcast, I didn’t catch that one. We actually only had a few of the same stories this time!
Okay, there does not appear to be a way to set that up that I can find. i sent a message to the company to see if this is possible and if it is I will get it switched so it resets overnight instead of 24 hours.
I probably should have checked if it was possible first, sorry!
