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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Wow!  There's a lot of good advice here.  I just want to say, I'm a first time DCUM poster, long-term lurker.  Sometimes I find the DCUM responses shockingly blunt, but I always enjoyed the fact that a lot of it was helpful and not sugar-coated in any way.  I have given this minor impending family skirmish a lot of thought and have actually considered much of the advice offered.  Some more details that make some of the advice inapplicable are:

1.  I offered the thermometer!!!  FIL said he didn't need one, he can tell by "just by looking" and sent me back to the kitchen.  *I* can't tell by looking!  Not with meat, anyway.  Isnt the ability to tell "just by looking" the holy grail of bbq'ing?  Most ppl use a thermometer...

2.  I like hamburgers.  Forgot to mention that MIL, although she happily exits the kitchen after a little peeking and won't make a peep about the food until it is served, is going to get snooty over burgers.  She loves the fancy stuff and is appreciative of them, and she'll pick at the food if she thinks it's too common.  She picked at the chicken (which kind of hurt of feelings) but found the apricots very intriguing.  I have to take her food preferences into account (which I know well by now), or she's going to suggest going out to dinner, and shoot!  I don't want to do that on a lazy Saturday with perfect weather.  This suggestion actually makes ME upset.

This isn't as bad as that thread with the gluten-free Jewish couple coming over with the Indian folks who can't eat root vegetables (or something like that), and the host was at a loss what to serve, but OTOH there is some family tinder here I would like to avoid igniting...[/quote]

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