Preparedness for when

RAS

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http://wildmanwildfood.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/tapping-birch-collecting-birch-sap-for.html

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calicocat wrote: »

Edit...just been to Aldi's and they have their small multi tools reduced.

Where knives and similar tools are concerned, you very much get what you pay for, and as you aren't paying very much ..................

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short_bird wrote: »

The ones in H. Bargains were non stick that stuck.

So that would make them non-non-stick.

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ArthriticOldThing wrote: »

I have a terrible history with pans.

So you committed 1st degree panicide?

GreyQueen

Mum got my little one-egg pan from Aldee today but it was £3.49 and the only colour they had in was black. Never mind, I shall still enjoy using it and will have it in my hot little hands within the month. She reckons it looks like a decent quality, and she's a woman with exacting standards for cookware.

A good pan, she always told me, should be strong enough to hand down the family for generations and robust enough to brain a burglar or enemy combatant, for those branches of the family who've made the mistake of emigrating to Forn Parts (i.e. Europe).

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Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Where knives and similar tools are concerned, you very much get what you pay for, and as you aren't paying very much ..................

I quite agree, I've had cheap multi-tools in the past and they weren't much good for anything. I now rely on my trusty Swiss Army knife for EDC and found a good deal on a Leatherman to go in the BOB :cool: although I can't help feeling it's a bit wasted in there and may have to swap them around to get some use out of it
It's the weekend again and I shall be looking for some good deals on flour both bread and ordinary to stock up - I'm expecting the prices to do bad things this year.... should probably stock up on things like breakfast cereal and pasta for the same reason. It's simple old-fashioned household economy and quite coincidental that I could feed the entire family for months if need be from the suppplies in stock

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Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Where knives and similar tools are concerned, you very much get what you pay for, and as you aren't paying very much ..................

I did think about that to be honest, they seemed sharp enough right now, but I imagine you are right in that they won't stay sharp or useful for long, the other bits on them would be useful I think....but I am sure a proper swiss army one is much better.

I'll test it out in the summer at festival.

Karmacat

GreyQueen wrote: »

A good pan, she always told me, should be strong enough to hand down the family for generations and robust enough to brain a burglar or enemy combatant, for those branches of the family who've made the mistake of emigrating to Forn Parts (i.e. Europe).

In my 2nd year at college, I moved out of a sort of hall of residence into a shared house, and my mum and dad found me two pans that had been in the shed storing paint or something. The little one was exactly the size that BB is sharing about today - and my dad took an electric sander to it to clean it up. I still have it, more than 40 years on


ETA - Rosemary Jane, thanks for those - I don't have anything on aquaponics yet, that'll be a nice little intro.

GreyQueen

Karmacat wrote: »

In my 2nd year at college, I moved out of a sort of hall of residence into a shared house, and my mum and dad found me two pans that had been in the shed storing paint or something. The little one was exactly the size that BB is sharing about today - and my dad took an electric sander to it to clean it up. I still have it, more than 40 years on


ETA - Rosemary Jane, thanks for those - I don't have anything on aquaponics yet, that'll be a nice little intro.

Love it. My Nan's got a Judge saucepan which Mum got from Green Shield Stamps back in the 1960s. It's still good.

My everyday stacking stainless steel pan has been in daily use for a quarter of a century so is a little young by family pan standards. Most of Nan's stuff comes from the 40s and 50s. Apart from the microwave, fridge-freezer and leccy kettle. She's an OS countrywoman but not a masochist when it comes to housework.

Le Crueset cookware would see off legions of zombies, can you imagine the murderous power of one of their pans wielded with intent? One of my daintier friends had a hubs who kept buying her this stuff until she demontrated that she could barely lift them empty, never mind cook with them.:rotfl:

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GQ I reckon if you took off the knob from a le creuset pan lid it would make an absolutely awesome Discus!!!