Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

Misskool, is the vacuum packing fiddly?


I did a mass bish some weeks ago of tupperware lids with jo boxes and boxes with no lids. It was painful. How can one grow attached to plastic box lids?

Nope, slice, seal, pack, vacuum, seal. The machine does most of it and the main bit is getting the portion control right.

i shall investigate this for meat products as and when we get whoopsies from waitrose over the coming weeks. This is a good solution for us but maybe not for anyone else

lostinrates

Spirit, this weather must have meant lots of low grade lamis that quietly rumble have gone on to be rotated pedal bones. Its what i think might happen to old girl. Old girl has very advanxed cushings, she has had fits, but never has so much as a raised pulse on grass, so while i know an acute lami is more likely with cushings, well, she has got to go of something. She is forty now. Her heart is strong and vital, and she bombs around every now and then. But she is stiff, and her coat is wooly, fits would be a problem in the barn over winter, and her sight is not great, she stays close to special girl usually.

Edit, fwiw, imp there is only one ethical decision for a rotation of any but the most minor degree, and i am horrifed the vet has diagnosed as an abcess and left before now without follow up to see if the abcess ruptured. This year lami is more likely than anything.

misskool

PasturesNew wrote: »

While it seems a good idea... it's a huge space investment - and, the new rolls cost £17 each. I presume the rolls are 3m long, 10' .... so, if something can be squeezed into just 9" of roll.... that'd be over £1 each time you used it ... cheaper to lob food out

It doesn't look like it'd work for the sort of stuff that's troublesome. I mean: would it store fresh lettuce? tomatoes? keep cucumber? What about keeping grated/raw cabbage/carrot fresh? Does it do those? They're the tricky things...

Right now in the fridge I've got to eat: the final tranche of mixed salad (today), 2 day old pizza (today), boiled eggs (by Tuesday), raw onion (by Tuesday), potato salad (beforei t goes off/Tuesday?) .... so that's achievable. But it'd have been nice to have made up, say, potato salad and had it edible for 2 weeks or so .... at £1 a go though, it's cheaer to make it fresh and lob leftovers.

You can get
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/p16500/Vacu-Store-Storage-System
containers with a little pump. But of course, if you had your own space, this wouldn't be a problem

silvercar

LydiaJ wrote: »

Thanks everyone.
The mobile phone issue isn't a question here - she's already got one. LNE's parents asked my permission to give both my kids phones for Christmas 2010 (when they were 10 & 7). It was younger than I would have given them to them, but I didn't feel I had any actual objections so I accepted gratefully. I find it great now - makes me feel a lot better about letting them take little steps towards independence. DS, of course, is very grown-up now and about to start secondary school, and can do lots of things by himself, but DD is at the stage of being allowed to go into a shop by herself while I'm in the shop next but one along the road, or to walk to the post box to post letters by herself, etc, and I do feel happier about it if she has her phone with her.

Glad I didn't put my foot in it by commenting further on the issue.:o

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I hate my slowdooker to spirit, but i am going to try and love it this winter. If after that it doesn't do it for me its getting the shove.

I would like to want a crockpot - but when you read most recipes they fall into one of two categories:
[1] Need to prepare/brown meat before putting it in, which isn't practical or handy at all as it all needs pre-thought.
[2] Having got to the stage that you're pre-prepared veggies/browned meat, you might as well just finish off the dish in 20-30-40 minutes flat by bunging it in the oven or in a saucepan.

Apart from that, the timings aren't easy to be able to have the food when you want it.... with many being 4 or 10 hours (say), not many are available at 9am or 3pm to be putting it on ready for tea-time by 7pm. They seem more a gadget for people who are home all day and in a fixed routine where it happens to fit

lostinrates

lostinrates wrote: »

I hate my slowdooker to spirit, but i am going to try and love it this winter. If after that it doesn't do it for me its getting the shove.

Things i have had and liked, gaggia ice cream maker,,,,will replace one day. Magimix. My hand mixer is my most used gadget, i am not keen on stick blender and cannot wait to have a normal blender again. Dh uses the bread maker. I rarely eat bread, but used touse the knead and rise function before baking in oven. Dh got a slicer from lidl as a gift from me, he loves it, but its a pain to clean up, so he uses it only when there is lots to slice.

He has our lumie alarm clock in london, but i love it.

Hate the sandwich maker, i toast sandwiches in a pan if needed. (mmmmmm mozzerella in carrozza, too good).

Quite want: actifry. Deep fat fryer (to use once a year for doughnuts, and that would be it) kitchen aid. Robo vacuum thingy. Robo lawn thingy. Front loader Tractor' probably a massey ferg. 370? With various attachments.

misskool

Spirit wrote: »

A poster who has an academic job but at heart is someone who just wants their cheese and cold meats to last a bit longer. If they can spread the news and enable cheese to be saved by others then they will do it.



What do other NP have and use/not use?

Use daily or near enough
kettle, toaster, microwave (I have hot porridge or something warm for breakfast), espresso machine

use enough to justify existence
bread machine
stick blender (soups in winter, smoothies in summer)
food processor (esp for shortcrust dough)
sandwich toaster (this will depend on new toaster though, the dualits come with a toasting rack for making toasted sandwiches)

use less but will keep
food dehydrator
vacuum sealer


on the verge of leaving us
remoska
pasta machine (although fresh home made stuff is to die for, I just can't bring myself..)

no slow cooker, electric knifes or much else, we only bought a lot of the electricals in the last 2-3 years

we also have an apple press and preserving pans.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

You can get
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/p16500/Vacu-Store-Storage-System
containers with a little pump. But of course, if you had your own space, this wouldn't be a problem

That would seem to suit better, but I think on balance that the cost of buying it and all its bits .... and then needing to have space for it/have it handy ..... mostly would mean it's still cheaper to lob stuff out. I am a super-careful, overly obsessive person about wrapping/re-wrapping things properly (I hate it when people have cheese in film then in a paper bag from a shop ... and they use a bit then scrunch up the bag and 2 days later the cheese is hanging out of the film/bag and the end's gone shiny and orange.

Or, for people who have wine, maybe ..... but even that's pushing the limits of value for money.

Good gadgets.... overpriced.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

Things i have had and liked, gaggia ice cream maker,,,,will replace one day. Magimix. My hand mixer is my most used gadget, i am not keen on stick blender and cannot wait to have a normal blender again. Dh uses the bread maker. I rarely eat bread, but used touse the knead and rise function before baking in oven. Dh got a slicer from lidl as a gift from me, he loves it, but its a pain to clean up, so he uses it only when there is lots to slice.

He has our lumie alarm clock in london, but i love it.

Hate the sandwich maker, i toast sandwiches in a pan if needed. (mmmmmm mozzerella in carrozza, too good).

Quite want: actifry. Deep fat fryer (to use once a year for doughnuts, and that would be it) kitchen aid. Robo vacuum thingy. Robo lawn thingy. Front loader Tractor' probably a massey ferg. 370? With various attachments.

Mrs Generali threw my ice cream maker at me. I survived the event but the ice cream maker didn't.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I would like to want a crockpot - but when you read most recipes they fall into one of two categories:
[1] Need to prepare/brown meat before putting it in, which isn't practical or handy at all as it all needs pre-thought.
[2] Having got to the stage that you're pre-prepared veggies/browned meat, you might as well just finish off the dish in 20-30-40 minutes flat by bunging it in the oven or in a saucepan.

Apart from that, the timings aren't easy to be able to have the food when you want it.... with many being 4 or 10 hours (say), not many are available at 9am or 3pm to be putting it on ready for tea-time by 7pm. They seem more a gadget for people who are home all day and in a fixed routine where it happens to fit

I am not sure i agree about timings. You can put it on a socket with a timer you see. Some have an automated start time, and i have left mine and its revolting sloppy contents on all day, and they certaonly have not got worse.

I think for non cooks who like real food they mit be ideal, just.....i actually like to cook and the thing of browning and moving etc leaves a lot of flavour out of the dish.