Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

An induction hob is just a good. I would never have an electric hob but we trialled one and it's just as good as gas, if not more responsive. You do have to make sure your pans will be ok though.

Mine is not as good. Its not as responsive but its fine. It doesn't hamper my cooking any. (what hampers it a little is I can't use the whole cooker at one time because its not got adaquate wiring in the plug, so I self liit rather than trip the house ) I use a lit spaghetti for flame where needed and its very uch easier to clean. Ther is always a silver lining!

chewmylegoff

We've got an induction hob. Not being able to flambe is sooooo tiresome.

On a serious note, it is really good, especially as there is limited worktop space in our twatty "contemporary open plan living space", and you can use it as extra surface which isn't possible with gas hobs or electric ones with raised plates. Oh and I really don't miss cleaning a gas hob. It's so easy to clean.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

We've got an induction hob. Not being able to flambe is sooooo tiresome.
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That#s when I get my pasta out. A spaghetti keeps you away from the flame, but you can ''ignite'' a pan to flambe

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

That#s when I get my pasta out. A spaghetti keeps you away from the flame, but you can ''ignite'' a pan to flambe

That is way too much effort. You don't need to flambe spag bol anyway. (this is all I cook, not a confusion over what you're doing with your pasta!)


Plus what are the co2 emissions of burning spaghetti? Think of the children!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

We thought about them...mainly for a gas hob, but realistically I'd have trouble if it needed changing and it was just me here and I was having a bad day. There is also the fact you have to look at them (or hatever you construct to house them). I like a gas hob, I prefer an electric over. The electric hob has been a tolerable compromise. (I do miss flames but c'est la vie...you can't have it all!)

You can have a hidden tank in the garden, behind some fencing/a bush - and pipe it into the house.

A tanker comes and fills the tank, as opposed to you buying big orange things that you lug about.

http://www.calor.co.uk/images/184/original/bulk-tank-outside.jpg
http://www.thegascompany.ie/iopen24/calor-faqs-t-132.html

Not saying you should get that, just making sure you know the option exists.

There's even one that goes underground- and orders its own top up http://www.calor.co.uk/about-calor/why-calor-lpg/think-tank/

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

That is way too much effort. You don't need to flambe spag bol anyway. (this is all I cook, not a confusion over what you're doing with your pasta!)


Plus what are the co2 emissions of burning spaghetti? Think of the children!

LOL< no, no need to flambe that, but I do like a bit of flame on my hob. I could probably save a minute amount of co2 if I went in with a match, but you know I'd spend more than that on the trip to hospital afterwards when I'm being clumsy.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

We thought about them...mainly for a gas hob, but realistically I'd have trouble if it needed changing and it was just me here and I was having a bad day.

I don't think you change them yourself - apart from flipping a switch to the spare set.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't even have a passport. Travelling alone's expensive and you can't actually enjoy yourself if you're not sharing the experience/times with somebody else that, later, you can remark "do you remember when we..." to.

You can, honestly. When my best mate and I were in Russia, she went to visit a uni friend in Astrakhan, and I went north to Archangel and the Solovetsky Islands. I had a wonderful time.

vivatifosi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I once watched him spend hours struggling through a passport renewal form in Hebrew. He got to the end, and the final words were something like, "If you want this in another language, apply to your local consulate". He was an Unhappy Man.

Sorry to switch the subject back, but I just wanted to say that I think Hebrew is an amazing looking language. I don't understand a word of it, but for something so ancient it has an amazingly sci-fi appearance. Its the sort of script that appears on intergalactic spaceships.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Sorry to switch the subject back, but I just wanted to say that I think Hebrew is an amazing looking language. I don't understand a word of it, but for something so ancient it has an amazingly sci-fi appearance. Its the sort of script that appears on intergalactic spaceships.

I agree, it is beautiful.

so is arabic IMO. Quite fancy learning arabic. wish I could

I was taught by a school friend to write some Chinese ''words'' bt can't remember them now. Or which sort of ''Chinese'' thy were :o I remember ''people''. that is all.:(:(