Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

To make breakfast of fried egg on toast can take dh half an hour, rofl.

Aww... bless.

I do scrambled eggs in the microwave. I've perfected a method that gives really fast, moist, lovely eggies Total time to do toast and eggs, including getting ready and serving scrambled eggs and beans on toast with a splash of brown sauce is 4 minutes tops. That time includes the dishes to be in soak.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Chop and freeze one for when needed, the orher will keep for a while stored well

Could do - the thing is, you can live your life with people telling you to freeze your leftovers.... and, often, I don't have access to a freezer.

I'd have thought that grated carrot, frozen, then defrosted, would only be fit for bulking out a chilli though - and would have lost it's crisp freshness.... so, no point going to the effort of doing that.

It's like cabbage.... and beetroot. Could have bought a cabbage and beetroot to also grate... but when I think of the vast quantities that'd produce, I simply wouldn't ever use it.

I prefer to have a variety of food and freezing just leaves you with a freezer full of stuff that you feel forced to use up. Same thoughts went for an onion; I thought how nice it'd be to have about 1/10th of a red onion grated in there. But it's all tiny pieces of a bigger item - and simply starts to look mad to do that.

Also, freezer's just about full at the moment. Already got 2/3rds of a loaf in there and two large wholemeal baps and am about to put another half a loaf in for freezing. That's left room for my frozen microwave chips and that's the freezer full.

Buying a loaf and freezing 3/4 of it sounds like a good idea, until you realise that means you live your life eating fresh bread for 2-3 days, followed by frozen bread for the next 2 weeks... and it's nice to have fresh bread more often. And you can't buy another fresh loaf while you've still got 3/4 of one frozen because the first thing you have to do with a loaf is ... freeze 3/4 of it.

yertiz_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Theyve gone up to £1 now as well. They were probably out of stock all long, I didn't look closely.

You can see 'em but can't buy 'em

silvercar

Buying a loaf and freezing 3/4 of it sounds like a good idea, until you realise that means you live your life eating fresh bread for 2-3 days, followed by frozen bread for the next 2 weeks... and it's nice to have fresh bread more often. And you can't buy another fresh loaf while you've still got 3/4 of one frozen because the first thing you have to do with a loaf is ... freeze 3/4 of it.

Tesco sells half loaves, full size pieces of bread, but only half a loaf. So much more sensible than little loaves where the individual pieces are too small.

silvercar

Nerdy alert.

Is it cheaper to spin clothes then tumble dry, or put them straight in the tumble dryer? My W/M has an extra spin option, 4 minutes at 900 rpm which uses about 1.2kWh, the dryer uses about 0.6kWh in a minute, so its a question of whether the extra spin reduces drying time and for how many times it is worth repeating the spin cycle.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Tesco sells half loaves, full size pieces of bread, but only half a loaf. So much more sensible than little loaves where the individual pieces are too small.

Yes, but Tesco is also a 40 mile round trip and I currently buy a loaf of bread from Aldi for 49p when passing and possible.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Nerdy alert.

Is it cheaper to spin clothes then tumble dry, or put them straight in the tumble dryer? My W/M has an extra spin option, 4 minutes at 900 rpm which uses about 1.2kWh, the dryer uses about 0.6kWh in a minute, so its a question of whether the extra spin reduces drying time and for how many times it is worth repeating the spin cycle.

Spinning must be cheaper as there is no heating element to the action.

If you're interested in cheap though .... hang them on the line

Edit: I am gobsmacked though that you've loads of cars, fund your kids etc, are looking at buying a holiday home abroad... and are wondering about a 50p difference per year

lostinrates

Until this winter i difn't each much bread, have had toast lots of meals over winter though. I have crumpets quite often. Sliced bread and crumpets etc just go straight in the freezer here. Otherwise i would let them linger in the cupboard too long. I would only have sliced as toast in the normal event, so from frozen doesn't bother me.


My only problem with cooking fro. The freezer is remembering to defrost stuff. The planning left overs and stuff just works for me,perhaps because i have been doing it so long? I also find lits of the stuff you are talking about lasts long enough not in the freezer. I would have no problem eaing three carrots within a couple of weeks. Tonight i have used three apples i bought a fortnight ago and they are fine (bear in mind my house is cold, thiugh ). If they hadn't been ok to linger i would have prepped and frozen. Its just ok for me, but i have the huge bonus of the freezer.

GDB2222

chewmylegoff wrote: »

in the circumstances you describe, i should think it would just be a factually correct statement.

Precisely! Plus, the implication of hotness would be a compliment, no?

In any case, it is time we went away for a weekend together without the children.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Spinning must be cheaper as there is no heating element to the action.

If you're interested in cheap though .... hang them on the line

Edit: I am gobsmacked though that you've loads of cars, fund your kids etc, are looking at buying a holiday home abroad... and are wondering about a 50p difference per year

Its the new toy - the electricity monitor.

It was more a curiosity.

BTW I have one car, hubby has one car and the boys share a car between them. You also have one car, so we have the same number of cars.