That apprentice asking why you can't use the same setting for every bolt is actually a really smart question. It gets at the whole idea of torque being about the specific material and thread pitch of each bolt, not just a number. I had a similar moment when a new grad asked why we prime IV lines the way we do instead of just hooking it up - it made me realize I'd been doing a task by rote for years without understanding the whole air embolism prevention logic behind it. Sometimes the most basic questions can actually show you where you've stopped thinking and just started performing.

@evah40 totally right about broccoli, peas never let me down though. Did the same thing with corn one week.

Watch your stuff like a hawk at those big competitions. I've been doing KCBS events for about five years now and learned the hard way after someone walked off with my custom offset smoker thermometer setup during a midnight cook. A lot of these bigger contests have hundreds of teams crammed together and it's easy for folks to just grab what isn't tied down. I actually had a guy from Nebraska tell me last year he lost his whole cooler of pork shoulders overnight, just gone. Now I chain my wood pile to the trailer hitch and keep anything small locked in the car. Are you going to start locking things up differently now after hearing about Dave?