Discada Experts: Need a first cook recipe

Congrats you will love it. Tripas are really good if you feel adventurous. Here is a pic of some pork carnitas I recently made for our church festival. Get it very hot and pour in some peanut or canola oil and throw in sliced onion and bell pepper then the pork and cook it until everything is nice and caramalized! Then make tacos with pico de gallo or guac. MMM MMM! Good. There's so much you can do with them.
Pork seasoned with Tony's

The Giggler said:

Hi Everyone,

Well, my Discada is finally ready to season. All you Discada Experts: What's the best first cook recipe for seasoning a new Disk? Also any tricks or tips for cooking are appreciated.

Thanks!

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a recipe for discada, does one exsist (insert wink here)? i always thought of it as the mexican version of a single pot pot-luck.

here's a place that i love to visit for mexican recipes. she doesn't have a discada recipe per se, but goes into depth on how to cook

http://rollybrook.com/discada.htm

fajitas are a good one as well, BBob cooks alot on his maybe hell chime in. lots of folks do carnitas.

Try this link. http://www.southwestdisk.com/Recipes.html

RichardF said:

a recipe for discada, does one exsist (insert wink here)? i always thought of it as the mexican version of a single pot pot-luck.

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Here's a shot of my disco, made from a large plow disc in the fine old tradition. Mine doesn't have the rim around it, and it works great for frying, deep-frying and general cooking. The welding beads were added around the outside to help with frying - you can drag finished food up there when still cooking other stuff, and it will stay warm but won't slide back down:


And here's a traditional Mexican discada recipe: http://texascookin.blogspot.com/2008/12/all-discos-are-not-alike-cooking-in.html

Great to see the interest in this type of cooking!

Mark

mgwerks said:

Here's a shot of my disco, made from a large plow disc in the fine old tradition. Mine doesn't have the rim around it, and it works great for frying, deep-frying and general cooking. The welding beads were added around the outside to help with frying - you can drag finished food up there when still cooking other stuff, and it will stay warm but won't slide back down:

And here's a traditional Mexican discada recipe: http://texascookin.blogspot.com/2008/12/all-discos-are-not-alike-cooking-in.html

Great to see the interest in this type of cooking!

Mark

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I love this idea, do you mind if I steal your design? Thanks, John

If it starts to smoke add more food to the cook. Thats what the guys at work are saying. They have a few "recipes" if you'd like. More like suggestions for meats.

SmokeyAlGold,

Darn, that looks delicious. :icon_wink

The potatoes should be moved to fifth in line. Right before the veggies and after all the meats.

6 lbs bottom or rump fatty piece diced
2 lbs chorizo fresh not dried. out of casing crumbled
2 lbs bacon 2"-3" in pieces
1 lb italian hot sausage crumbled
1.5 lbs smoked ham chunks (city ham)
6-12 jalapenos diced
2 habenaros diced
3 sweet peppers
10 oz sweet corn
6-8 tomatoes sliced
3 onions sliced not too thin
6-7 cloves garlic minced
You can add a little peanut oil or get your lube from the dripping of the bacon
To your hot disk add the chorizo cook until browned and move to the edges
Add bacon cook down to brown and limp move to edges
drop the garlic and some onions into the grease. Brown
Add ham and firm it.
Mix everything together then move to sides
Cook italian sausage to brown move to edges
Cook bottom/rump two pounds at a time. Don't let too much water escape
mix all lower heat
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throw tomatoes onions peppers and jalapenos in and cover
season with salt pepper cumin
Cover and cook at simmer for 10-15 minutes
cook uncovered until water has boiled off
Use lid or right over food to heat some tortillas


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If you wanted potatoes this would be the placed to add them. Extend your covered time and make sure your potatoes are like the O'brien hash browns.

I have found the best way to measure oil temps in a film is to sprinkle water and see if it dances or explodes. explodes is too hot. if it is deep enough, stick a end of a stick in there, if it bubbles, you are good.

Thermometer? Steve.

What temp do you want your oil in these things? Thinking of giving this Disc thing another shot.

Mike, what did you eventually use to strip the paint from your disc?

-Brian

The least toxic way would be a sand blaster or bead blaster....I have one if you need it blasted. I see you are in Pa., where is Huntingdon? I am not far from Huntington Valley in 215 area code...PM me if that works