Subsistence cooking equipment

ceridwen

She has requested that I amend the breadbaking tins to large ones - at £1.99 each - and add in a food processor (for the nut butter and apple curd spreads) - so will nip back and amend the list accordingly.

ceridwen

The list at post 46 of basic Essentials equipment is now firmed-up. No further alterations to be made.

Has anyone had a chance to check out Asda prices yet for those items that dont already have an Asda price listed by them please?:)

PasturesNew

ceridwen wrote: »

and add in a food processor (for the nut butter and apple curd spreads) - so will nip back and amend the list accordingly.

I really think this is a really posh thing to have. They're only recently used ... my parents don't have one, my siblings don't have them. I don't have one. I've seen them on the telly.

It seems that the list is being compiled by middle class people, for a poorer lifestyle ... let them eat cake eh!

domesticgoddess789

ceridwen wrote: »

She has requested that I amend the breadbaking tins to large ones - at £1.99 each - and add in a food processor (for the nut butter and apple curd spreads) - so will nip back and amend the list accordingly.

Hi Ceridwen,

My OH bought me the Argos value food processor on the list for Christmas and it is really good. I have made Weezls Almond Butter from her old thread in it and it worked brilliantly. I have also made the weezl houmous and homemade pesto in it too. It works really well considering it is much cheaper than other brands.

Hope that helps.

ceridwen

PasturesNew wrote: »

I really think this is a really posh thing to have. They're only recently used ... my parents don't have one, my siblings don't have them. I don't have one. I've seen them on the telly.

It seems that the list is being compiled by middle class people, for a poorer lifestyle ... let them eat cake eh!

I'm sorry if you feel that way Pastures.

Certainly I for one could definitely state theres nothing "middle class" about my income level....sometimes I have to laugh about how low it is - or I'd cry:(. Personally - the only reason I can live okay on the income level I am on is I've economised/worked my socks off with extra jobs on top of the "day job"/etc/etc - as I know just how plain awful it is and I wouldnt be able to live reasonably otherwise. I'm sure there must be many other people in this position.

I dont think one can categorise by income level at all in my experience - as the level of them can vary so much to and fro between various different times in one's life. Also - ones income level and assumed lifestyle may be at huge variance to each other - either way...

I just dont think one can use terms like "middle class" - or otherwise - in this context.

Anyway - moving on.....thank you for the contributions you are making to this thread and I have in mind having a little sub-section on ingenious uses for kitchen equipment I for one would never have thought of and certainly have in mind to quote your various different uses for a frying pan:)

princess_loki

PasturesNew wrote: »

I really think this is a really posh thing to have. They're only recently used ... my parents don't have one, my siblings don't have them. I don't have one. I've seen them on the telly.

It seems that the list is being compiled by middle class people, for a poorer lifestyle ... let them eat cake eh!

i am 32 and for my 18th birthday present asked for a food processor from my grandma! still going strong now! maybe i was a 'wise kid' but it has been one of the most used presents that i have ever had!

ceridwen

pinkhayley789 wrote: »

Hi Ceridwen,

My OH bought me the Argos value food processor on the list for Christmas and it is really good. I have made Weezls Almond Butter from her old thread in it and it worked brilliantly. I have also made the weezl houmous and homemade pesto in it too. It works really well considering it is much cheaper than other brands.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for that - I've just been evaluating the comments made on it on the Argos website.

Does it have the two blades the Argos site says it does - or the one blade one poster commented that it has instead?

weezl74

PasturesNew wrote: »

I really think this is a really posh thing to have. They're only recently used ... my parents don't have one, my siblings don't have them. I don't have one. I've seen them on the telly.

It seems that the list is being compiled by middle class people, for a poorer lifestyle ... let them eat cake eh!

yep, unashamedly middle class me

And the subsistence planner is for people in a lot of debt. Which in the uk correlates more with being middle class. Because attitudes are more aspirational and there's less perceived incentive to live within means.

I'd cope with this being a middle class subsistence planner... suits my working definition

And as for cake, yep there's plenty on our menu!

seriously though, say a bit more about why it matters if it's a 'posh' bit of kit?

I think it's a good point I'm just not sure I get it yet, but my brain is a bit hormone addled at the mo...

Penelope_Penguin

weezl74 wrote: »

And the subsistence planner is for people in a lot of debt. Which in the uk correlates more with being middle class. Because attitudes are more aspirational and there's less perceived incentive to live within means.

Really? As a debt adviser, I'd love to see the source of your assertion, weezl, as it doesn't chime with the experience in our office

Penny. x

ariarnia

I would think it depends more on what you call 'in debt' as in order to be loaned 'lots' of money you need to have either an income or equity. I think weezl is pushing at B&S being debt-free, not shifting a couple of big credit card bills if that makes sense.

ATM, unemployed, I can get an overdraft of £2ooo (a tie over from when I was a student and going soon) and maybe a couple of credit cards (don't know, I don't have one and have never applied), a littlewoods or similar account and that's about it(unless there's something I've missed).

That makes maybe £10ooo of debt I could possibly rack up - an awful lot and I'm glad I only owe £25ooo to the SLC, £300 to littlewoods and £200 to a payday loan place from when I had a job but had to move (van hire and the like).

Technically the very fact that I went to university makes me middle class (as it's assumed I'd leave directly into a middle class job), but not talking about technicalities.

The next level of debt I could accrue is going to be based on me having an income, and the amount I can borrow based on my income goes up in correlation with my income - up to and including the size of my mortgage.

Weezl isn't saying that the middle class are more in debt - as in more of the middle class are in debt * but that the middle class are more in debt as in those of the middle class that have 'problem debt' ** the debt is bigger.

And I also think she's talking about, in the current economic climate, the number of middle class workers that have had a drastic change in circs. They have lived to their means and to their available debt and now can't pay it as they've lost 90% of their income. For the first month it's entirely reasonable, that while they're sorting out debt relief orders, IVA's or similar, they'll have no ready cash available at all as it's all gone out on standing orders and direct debits and no new salary has come in - just the £65? a week CJSA.

*(though it's possible they are in as much debt as the working class but better able to meet the payments for the same amount of debt and so don't need debt relief services - I couldn't manage a £100 a month repayable now debt, but my father could with little problem)

**(debt that they can't manage)

Does that make sense?