Pellet Fan
All Things Considered => General Discussion--Food Related => Topic started by: jdmessner on March 21, 2025, 12:57:08 PM
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The news that Pellet Fan was going to come to an end in its current form hit me kind of hard. This group has meant a lot to me over the past several years. However, when I stopped to think about it, I realized this isn’t the first time the page has undergone a major transition. When I first joined on the "other" page, it was shortly after Larry had passed away. There was a lot of uncertainty about what would happen going forward (that is probably an understatement)! Despite the confusion, when Pellet Fan became established, people were able to navigate their way to the new site. I have always found the information and comradery that is shared on this forum to be genuine and truly helpful. I am glad that we will be able to continue the conversation on Facebook. That being said, there is a lot of information on these pages that I would hate to see lost to the ages.
I have an idea. I don’t know if it will work, but it might be worth a shot. My wife has put together electronic newsletters for various organizations using Mail Chimp. In talking with her, I think we can fairly easily put together an e-cookbook. It could feature some of the favorite “go to” recipes on the forum, along with various reviews, discussions, and pictures. I do not plan on editing the wording from the original content. It will simply be cut and pasted from the forum and arranged on the page for the cookbook.
What I would like to do is use the different categories on the forum as chapters. To start with, I will list one chapter at a time. Once a category has been listed, please search the pages for anything you would like to have included in the cookbook. Please post the link to the page you would like included. Please feel free to dig deep into the archives and have fun with it. I will start by posting a thread for the "Recipe Section."
When a chapter is completed, I can email it to anyone who would like a copy. I am going to be learning as I go, so we’ll see how it goes. It can be as detailed or as simple as we would like to make it. Being electronic, there is no publishing or mailing costs. However, it should be formatted in a way that it can be printed, if anyone would like a hard copy.
Hopefully this will be a good way to reminisce a bit and preserve a little bit of what has been accomplished by the many participants on the forum.
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Google Drive has free space associated with a GMAIL address. You could store pdf files of your chapters on there for free for people to access too. I could help you with that if it is worth pursuing. LMK if there is any other way I can help you.
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Google Drive has free space associated with a GMAIL address. You could store pdf files of your chapters on there for free for people to access too. I could help you with that if it is worth pursuing. LMK if there is any other way I can help you.
Thanks that is good to know. I will keep you posted.
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That’s a wonderful idea. Unfortunately, now none of my posts contain the photographs I posted. I originally used the html codes [ img ] and [ /img ] rather than embedding them. Something changed in December in either my operating system, MacOS, or Pelletfan’s, Simple Machines, and the photographs no longer post. I briefly entertained the thought of editing each post to embed the photographs but quickly abandoned it.
Send me a PM if you have a remedy suggestion.
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That’s a wonderful idea. Unfortunately, now none of my posts contain the photographs I posted. I originally used the html codes [ img ] and [ /img ] rather than embedding them. Something changed in December in either my operating system, MacOS, or Pelletfan’s, Simple Machines, and the photographs no longer post. I briefly entertained the thought of editing each post to embed the photographs but quickly abandoned it.
Send me a PM if you have a remedy suggestion.
I don't have any remedies, that is way above my pay grade! However, if you still have the pictures that would go with the posts, you can email them to me and I can try and put them together, I know you have posted some great photos. My email is jdmessner@gmail.com.
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Drive has 15gb of free space. Also if you get an email address set up and then start the project, you can send links to people that are helping and you can set them up so they can read only, comment or edit. So you could have maybe 4 different people all working on the project at one time and it is all inn only one spot.
It is a great idea, and I will also help, just leave me know.
The problem with the copy and paste is going to be the recipes, not sure what happens over time but inn the measurements at least on my end they are not shown correctly and some things are replaced with some sort of symbol like this, also sometimes a temp or something with in the instructions is messed up the same way.
here is what I see on my end.
Verdé Enchilada Pork Chili
Yields: 6 - 8 servings
Ingredients:
• ½ pound bacon, cut into ¼" pieces crosswise
• 3-4 pounds pork butt or shoulder, trimmed and cut into ¾" cubes (or whole if smoked)
• ½-2 fresh jalapeño peppers, stems and seeds removed and chopped (to desired heat)
• 3-4 tablespoon lard, if needed
• 1 medium white onion, diced
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• ½ teaspoon ground cumin
• ½ teaspoon sweet paprika
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I have no idea why those symbols are coming up that way. This and the picture issue is a reason why the site needed someone that knows this stuff nd I was never willing to spend money on it, Larry on the other had had no issue doing that!
Even if I had been willing to spend money on it I would have had no idea who to call!
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I believe those symbols happened during one of the upgrades several years ago.
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Yeah, but we did an updated to correct them, why they are showing up again I have no idea!
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Yeah, but we did an updated to correct them, why they are showing up again I have no idea!
I know the updated prevented it from showing up that way on all posts after it, but I don't recall it fixing anything prior to that date. But, I don't run the board so I will defer to your memory.
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But this is a new post.
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But this is a new post.
I could be wrong, but I think he just copied and pasted from the old post.
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But this is a new post.
I could be wrong, but I think he just copied and pasted from the old post.
Yes I found one and copied and pasted.