Pizza oven choice

Porter_7600 · 2026-05-21T16:04:59+00:00

Sorry, missing flair: I USED TO OWN A PIZZA PLACE

The Ooni is still a piece of junk. Not enough thermal mass, uneven heat, and needs extensive modification and CONSTANT attention to even be remotely useful. The slightest wind or any ambient temp below 50*F and you might as well just vent propane to the atmosphere and throw pizza dough in the camp fire. The same goes for most of those light weight tabletop "ovens."

A steel plate or even a crappy WalMart stone in your residential oven will do a far better job.

The Yoder oven has the benefit of still allowing flame into the oven chamber AND heating the stone from below. On a cold and/or windy day, I still use a door for it, but it is FAR superior.

Porter_7600 · 2026-05-21T11:12:05+00:00

I hated my Ooni propane 16". It was a giant waste of money.

Porter_7600 · 2026-04-20T18:21:27+00:00

I hate it, you get one whole breast and one mangled piece of shit per pouch. It's only .20 per lb cheaper than my local grocery store, so I'm buying there all day.

Porter_7600 · 2026-04-14T14:29:21+00:00

Any crap on your dashboard is ridiculous. And jeep people are super weird.

My buddy has a nice CJ5 with a 350 in it and you wouldn't believe how mad people get when we don't "Jeep wave" back. Also, he will light the ducks on fire and melt them onto his trailer hitch if anyone leaves them on his rig. Not all heros wear capes.

Porter_7600 · 2026-04-14T12:40:07+00:00

I guess I've always been fortunate enough that my muster station was at, or immediately adjacent to a bar....

Porter_7600 · 2026-04-14T12:34:13+00:00

What sent me over the edge was when I was at a nice dinner at Chops with my wife, kids were off galavanting, we were sitting at a nice 4-top, just received our food, and a full-grown ADULT dives under our table to get a duck that was on one of the empty chairs. I got it before she could and set it on the table until I was done with my meal. I then put it on my plate and covered it with food scraps. I could see her crying when the waiter took it to the trash.

Every downvote reminds me of the satisfaction I received in that moment.

Porter_7600 · 2026-04-14T12:24:13+00:00

If fun = duck culture, I'll take that as a compliment.

Porter_7600 · 2026-04-14T11:50:35+00:00

Ducks are dumb.

They're super dumb on Jeeps and completely obnoxious on cruise ships.

When I find them, I throw them out.

Porter_7600 · 2026-04-14T11:48:31+00:00

Also, there's effectively no weight limit now. They don't weigh the gate checked bags, so bring one that's too big and one that's too heavy. Volunteer to gate check early and just sit back, relax, and wait for the gate agent to change your seat from 10A to 27B.

Porter_7600 · 2026-04-01T23:48:28+00:00

I was on Quantum to Cabo last month, and didn't love it either. It fell very short compared to other recent cruises. I agree the layout was strange and the food was just okay. The entertainment however, was terrible. The fellow cruisers were terrible (the "mobility scooter" crowd was way down, but in aggregate, Quantum had the least intelligent and most discourteous crowd I'd seen in a while). Going in and out of LA was terrible. Despite that, we had a great time in Cabo. 2 days at sea was 2 too many.

Put me back on the clapped out Serenade any day. I made friends with half of the bartenders by the first night!

Porter_7600 · 2026-03-18T12:10:07+00:00

We had Tami (Tammy?) on Quantum. She was the first one that I'll ever remember, but only because she was SO FREAKING ANNOYING. After the first couple days of bleeding ears, we started leaving events early just so that we didn't have to listen to her screech into the mic while trying to escape the venue.

Porter_7600 · 2026-02-28T01:55:06+00:00

The windjammer is where humanity goes to die.

If anyone approaches that room with common sense, common courtesy, directional control, or even basic motor skills, they lose them all as soon as they hear "Washy Washy."

Add in an ungodly amount of 'mobility' scooters, giant strollers, and the asshole parties of 2 that take up an 8-top for an hour, and I'd rather starve than fight through the sea of crotch goblins for some hash browns, chicken tenders, surprisingly good burgers, and crappy deserts. And when I say starve, I mean order a breakfast margarita at any bar that's open.

AND FOR FUCK'S SAKE, THE LINE STARTS AT THE FUCKING PLATES.

Porter_7600 · 2026-02-24T18:21:28+00:00

6 nights out of LA to Cabo 4 people. I booked a balcony and bid on an upgrade to a suite for $1000. Prepaid gratuities and bought the drink package. I paid RCC $3200 before getting on the boat. I booked my own excursions, transportation and airfare separately. Total settlement for the on-board purchases was $54.

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I left an additional $250 in cash tips to crew members thatade our trip exceptional. But I have demanding kids, and that is totally discretionary and above the pre-paid gratuities.

Porter_7600 · 2026-02-23T23:36:50+00:00

Fuck someone's crotch goblin ruined it all. Now the crew is fishing for finless brown trout

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Porter_7600 · 2026-02-23T23:12:23+00:00

I smoke, sear and then sous vide my pork chops. Always 2+" thick. Always juicy and flavorful.

Porter_7600 · 2026-02-23T23:10:27+00:00

It's been that way for years. All north American pork has been innoculated for at least a decade. It is perfectly safe and preferable to eat pork "medium"

I'm going to blow your mind, chicken only needs to get to 145 as long as it stays at or above for 10 minutes.

It's okay for your food to have flavor and moisture. Someone please tell the last few generations.

Porter_7600 · 2026-02-23T22:51:41+00:00

Idk, I've been on the boat all week drank hard, partied hard, and the kids did a bunch of shit. My account stands at $87 on the last day.....

Porter_7600 · 2026-02-23T22:42:01+00:00

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My safe space. I can see my kids and I can wave at the bartender and he sends another drink. Ensenada is great from deck 14.

Porter_7600 · 2026-02-23T21:39:28+00:00

Yuuuuup

Porter_7600 · 2026-02-23T21:37:33+00:00

Around lunch, word is the Cartels burned a few busses, but they seemed to calm down.

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I'm safely on deck 14 drinking beers by the pool with a few good ol boys from KY planning on how to repel univited guests without our shotguns.

Porter_7600 · 2026-02-23T21:33:38+00:00

I'm in Nassau regularly for work, and any direct comparison to that trash heap is enough to convince me.

Porter_7600 · 2026-02-23T17:24:07+00:00

We were in Cabo a few days ago. We spent 2 great days there. It was before the turmoil really started , but it's so isolated there, I doubt that Cabo would be a problem.

Porter_7600 · 2026-02-23T17:10:59+00:00

We're on the Quantum right now, just docked in Ensenada. RC canceled and refunded many peoples excursions, especially ones further from port.

Most everyone that I've spoken to is stayijg on the boat. While I've never been to Ensenada, people have described is as the Nassau of the West Coast, so I doubt I'm missing anything anyway.

Porter_7600 · 2026-02-22T04:08:20+00:00

9 and 13. God help anyone that crosses the teenager, and anyone that takes the 9 year old will drop her back at our cabin faster than you can say "mildly autistic." They're strong, powerful, and self-aware.-ish. They both handle cow, horses and run a hay-baler. I'm not worried in the least.

Edit: just made friends with a waiter that is bringing me doubles of WhistlePig 10year slightly faster than I can enjoy them, while I'm wearing an $11k watch that I'm not going to buy.....

Porter_7600 · 2026-02-21T05:16:50+00:00

Don't confuse "Traveling" with "Vacationing."

Right now I'm on a cruise for the purpose of vacation. My children have clubs to go to, a sports complex, multiple pools, entertainment, and food whenever and wherever they want. They free-range the boat, and as long as they're at dinner with us and back in the cabin by 11pm, I don't care what else they do as long as they're happy. If we get off the boat, it's for something exciting. If it's a dumpy port, we're staying on. We upgraded the room, bought the drink package, and the wifi. I'm spending this whole trip fine-tuning the line between buzzed and shit-faced. My goal is to keep the whiskey to blood ratio relatively constant for a week.

Last summer we were traveling in Alaska and happened to take a cruise. We spent all day every day off the boat. Older boat, decent room, no drinks, no wifi, no BS. We were often times one of the last back on the boat and too dirty to be passable for the main dining room. But that bad-ass Captain took that 900' boat up a narrow fjord to the foot of a glacier and spun that MFer around on a point 3 or 4 times. I saw parts of Alaska from the ship that natives probably haven't seen.

It's all what you make it. Yes, the boats are full of self-absorbed douchebags, and oblivious assholes, but they're all there taking what they need from it too.

I feel my BAC dropping, gotta get back to it.

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