Chief cooked up some red beans and rice and had so much that he sent some ingredients north. (You know where we think that salt and pepper are spices)

We had so many beans that they over filled the jar. All anyone has to do is guess how many beans are in the jar. Hint: Things are not always as they seem.

Rules: One guess per member. The one closest to the correct number of beans will be the winner and get her/his choice of wood. (Palm or Amboyna )The other block of wood will be given to the member who comes in fourteenth . The winners will be announced All Hallow's Eve.
We hope that that you all participate and have fun. Post your guess, and if you have any questions please PM me.







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I'll take the first stab at this one.

I'll say 1070

Thanks

Barry

RKS4451

Kevin,
Great contest!
Deep East Texas is just on the edge of Red Beans and Rice country.
One question please. Is this contest on the up and up or is there something else in the jar besides red beans?

Tom,
As stated in the post: "Things are not always as they seem"

Kevin

OK, I'm game, I guess 1194.

Dan Snyder
RKS #5537

2001

I'll say zero, because maybe they are all kidney beans.

Dubie

Red Beans Dubie, Red Beans.

Dem red bean count is 2719 big uns. Tom #3081

1790 Beans

If I don't win can I have the Beans????

See Ya, Chief

My guess is 3265.

I think about 300. I also think that maybe it is a really small jar.

1 pound dried red beans, rinsed and sorted over
3 tablespoons bacon grease
1/4 cup chopped tasso, or chopped ham
1 1/2 cups chopped yellow onions
3/4 cup chopped celery
3/4 cup chopped green bell peppers
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Pinch cayenne
3 bay leaves
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
2 teaspoons fresh thyme
1/2 pound smoked sausage, split in half lengthwise and cut into 1-inch pieces
1 pound smoked ham hocks
3 tablespoons chopped garlic
10 cups chicken stock, or water
4 cups cooked white rice
1/4 cup chopped green onions, garnish

Place the beans in a large bowl or pot and cover with water by 2 inches. Let soak for 8 hours or overnight. Drain and set aside.
In a large pot, heat the bacon grease over medium-high heat. Add the tasso and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Add the onions, celery and bell peppers to the grease in the pot. Season with the salt, pepper, and cayenne, and cook, stirring, until the vegetables are soft, about 4 minutes. Add the bay leaves, parsley, thyme, sausage, and ham hocks, and cook, stirring, to brown the sausage and ham hocks, about 4 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add the beans and stock or water, stir well, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the beans are tender and starting to thicken, about 2 hours. (Should the beans become too thick and dry, add more water, about 1/4 cup at a time.)
Remove from the heat and with the back of a heavy spoon, mash about 1/4 of the beans against the side of the pot. Continue to cook until the beans are tender and creamy, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and remove the bay leaves.
Serve over rice and garnish with green onions.

Well thank you Emeril.
Kevin

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Emeril Baxter

Friends,
Beans, Beans and more Beans.. I will guess 1492! I think that Columbus must have had some on board!

P.S. What Fantastic prizes!--Thanks!

Kent

RKS #109

I'll guess 676

Actually there are exactly "239" beans in that jar, because if it have only 1 more, then it would be too forty. HA!

2112 Beans.

876 and one third beans.

1,188 beans.

Is my answer too long-winded?

Must be a lot of folks not guessing cause Dubie took the best number

See ya, Chief

2007 beans.

Tom,
Is that your final answer???????
Kevin

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Very clever Kevin but I'm on to you!
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Tom Welch

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Good job Tom! Kevin has been running these and other similar scams in the tri-state area for years... always gets away with it too,... so I am glad someone has finally figured this out.
~dale

Yeah, the shipping for the wood will probably be fifty bucks.

Dubie

2239 beans because one more would make them to forty. Bob

I forgot to mention.
Shipping will be paid by us. (Maybe not for Dubie)
Kevin

It easy to see these guys don't know beans about counting

See Ya, Chief

I'll go for 2403, but I'm trying for 14th place,
and I'll pay the extra shipping to Oz
Thanks Kevin & Chief,for the competition, the beans look good I'll have to give them a try, when I come to the US.

Kevin,
After closer inspection with the selectron microscope I have detected a couple of floaters. I want to change my guess to 115.

If Chief has cooked enough beans he knows what floaters are.

Chief's Great Red bean Mystery has been solved. The total amount of Red Beans in the jar was... 2414.
Graham Rogers guessed the closest amount and Dick Roberts wins for 14th place.
Graham gets first pick and if you both would please PM me your addresses I will send you your prizes.
Thanks to all that played and Graham when you come to the USA I know Chief knows a great place for red beans and rice!!!!
Special thanks to Chief for donating the prizes and having such a great contest.
Kevin

Below are everyone's guesses.

1. Graham Rogers (Ausblade) 2403 (-11)
2. Bob Teates 2239 (-175)
3. Jerry Morrison 2112 (-302)
4. Tom (1gunner) 2719 (+305)
5. Jim Salake 2007 (-407)
6. Dale Dorris 2001 (-413)
7. Tom (tglassco) 1790 (-624)
8. Gary Howie 3265 (+851)
9. Kent 1492 (-922)
10. Dan Snyder 1194 (-1220)
11. Gene Duncan 1188 (-1226)
12. Barry 1070 (-1344)
13. Steven K. Crawford 876 1/3 (-1537 2/3)
14. Dick Roberts 676 (-1738)
15. Sydney Redford 300 (-2114)
16. Glimmer Man 239 (-2175)
17. Tom the Bomb 115 (-2299)
18. Dubie (Emeril) Baxter 0 (-2414)

Not so fast, my friend.

The Red Beans in that jar look like the genus/species Halitosis hemophiliosis. Down here in Polk County, our Red Beans are Malecamaleca Leucalucadendron.

I demand a recount !!!!!!

Dubie Baxter

Dubie,
If memory serves me correctly, the Malecamaleca Leucalucadendron that you are used to are much smaller beans. So small that they don't take up much room, which is probably why you guessed "0"... I can see why you would mix them up like that. I feel for you, and personally I think the whole thing was a trick to throw you off.
~dale


P.S. Congrats! on winning guys. Those blocks will make some nice handles!

wow i missed that one

Now Graham (Ausblade) has to count all the knives in Guidos' collection.

Dubie

Thanks Kevin for running that competition and thanks Chief for donating the prizes, congratulations to Dick Roberts for taking second (14th) prize.

I guess I’ll go for the Amboyna.

Dubie
I very carefully calculated the number of beans in the jar using LWG method; you cannot use this method on knives as they don't pack evenly in to a given space. I would be very happy to count the knives in Guidos' collection but I would have to do it by hand and in person. So if you would like to start collecting for my trip to Italy, I’d be happy to do my part.


LWG = Lucky Wild Guess

Good try, but the only way we would do that is if you promised to visit Guido, then personally deliver a knife to a G.I, or Aussie in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Don't laugh, as you well know, we can get up for this sort of mission.

Dubie Baxter

Hey remember this competition? I don't know how it ended up in the Bad Ugly and Political, but I'll post it in knife of the week also

My piece of wood became this beautiful Randall 19-5"




Thanks Kevin and Chief, I'm very happy with how my prize turned out.

Graham,

"In gemology, chatoyancy (pronounced / shə-TOY-ən-see), or chatoyance, is an optical reflectance effect seen in certain gemstones. Coined from the French "œil de chat," meaning "cat's eye," chatoyancy arises either from the fibrous structure of a material, as in tiger eye quartz, or from fibrous inclusions or cavities within the stone, as in cat's eye chrysoberyl. The effect can be likened to the sheen off a spool of silk: The luminous streak of reflected light is always perpendicular to the direction of the fibres. For a gemstone to show this effect best it must be cut en cabochon, with the fibers or fibrous structures parallel to the base of the finished stone. Faceted stones are less likely to show the effect well."

That's a "gem" of a knife.

Dubie,

Those are some awful big words you have in there. You get that out of a dictionary or something???

Michael Mason
RKS #4382

Beautiful knife Graham, I love that amboyna wood. Thank-you for posting it.

Michael Mason
RKS #4382

I put quotes around it Mike...it is from WIKI.