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sorryImoved

please tell me what is an airing cupboard and what is a stiring cupboard.

GreyQueen

sorryImoved wrote: »

please tell me what is an airing cupboard and what is a stiring cupboard.

Evening, love.

An airing cupboard is a warm cupboard adjacent to/ including a hot water tank/ hot pipes, usually fitted with slatted wooden shelves, to store household linen permanantly or to temporarily 'air' freshly laundered clothing, sheets, towels etc before they are put in their proper places. My airing cupboard does a mixture of both those things.

The UK has a damp maritime climate and we can seldom get things bone dry either indoors or outdoors. Tumble driers have only been widespread in the past generation, Brit homes are pretty small and many people haven't room for a tumbler or, if they have one, are rationing its use because of high energy bills.

Haven't the slightest idea what a stiring cupboard is, can you show us where you saw that, maybe it's a typo?

ETA; found it in MrsLW's post overpage - think she miskeyed as 'a' and 's' are beside each other. Stiring must be meant to be airing cupboard.

D'you not have airing cupboards in the US, then?

katep23 love that cartoon, going to send it to a pal............thanks.

mardatha

Thanks MrsL - that sounds sort of like tablet, only with fruit in it.

jk0

GreyQueen wrote: »

Evening, love.

An airing cupboard is a warm cupboard adjacent to/ including a hot water tank/ hot pipes, usually fitted with slatted wooden shelves, to store household linen permanantly or to temporarily 'air' freshly laundered clothing, sheets, towels etc before they are put in their proper places. My airing cupboard does a mixture of both those things.

The UK has a damp maritime climate and we can seldom get things bone dry either indoors or outdoors. Tumble driers have only been widespread in the past generation, Brit homes are pretty small and many people haven't room for a tumbler or, if they have one, are rationing its use because of high energy bills.

Haven't the slightest idea what a stiring cupboard is, can you show us where you saw that, maybe it's a typo?

ETA; found it in MrsLW's post overpage - think she miskeyed as 'a' and 's' are beside each other. Stiring must be meant to be airing cupboard.

D'you not have airing cupboards in the US, then?

katep23 love that cartoon, going to send it to a pal............thanks.

I used to enjoy an Irish DIY programme on Discovery Home & Leisure. Did you guys know that the Irish call the airing cupboard the 'Hot Press'?

It's lucky I knew this, as my tenants in London are Irish girls. Every year I have to go over and let the gas man in to inspect the boiler. A couple of times I met their Polish cleaner.

The girls were getting annoyed with her because she did not understand their notes asking her to clean the 'Press doors'. I explained it meant the kitchen cupboards.

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Sorry for the typo, an airing cupboard in the UK is usually the cupboard that the hot water tank is installed in, ours is in the smallest bedroom and we keep linen, towels, bedding in it to make sure they stay aired and dry. Ours is shelved and I'd keep the fruit cheeses on the top shelf, we start seeds in there too, in a tupperware type lidded box, lay the seeds on some damp kitchen paper and leave them to germinate in the warmth from the hot tank.

VJsmum

Making fire with water

http://www.offgridworld.com/5-easy-ways-to-start-a-fire-using-water/3/

Might come in handy. I follow this group on Facebook (amongst some other, similar groups), who often have some good ideas - and some wacky but interesting ones:p

GreyQueen

When I lived in Scotlandshire, I came across very shallow shelved cupboards, behind a room-sized door, being called 'clothes presses' so I guess this is the same origin as your Irish lassies' 'hot press'.

You can have a great deal of fun and games with language. A pal of mine caused confusion at a French street market by asking for a half kilo of mice.

Seriously - he misprounced les cerises (cherries) as les souris (mice). The fruit seller gave him the funniest look, as you can imagine.

My parents also came a cropper in France due to a mispronuciation. Dad asked for sept nuits (7 nights) when checking in, they heard cette nuit (that night) and when the folks returned to their hotel after the following day's sightseeing, they hadn't got a room any more.....:rotfl:

sorryImoved

thank you for the explanations. No airing cupboards here. They sound very useful. Our hot water tank is in the garage. It's hot here from April until October so I guess having a warm appliance inside wouldn't work well. Today it's 85 degrees and humidity about 60%.

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charlies-aunt wrote: »

I still help out friends who acquire rabbits, pheasants etc from local shoots

Do you strip the rabbit skin from end to end, or do you prefer the belly pinch and nick method?

GreyQueen

TBH, I find canned foods less faff:



ETA; Just refound that YooTube viddy I was referring to; I'd misremembered - it was survive2day not prepare2day : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DsvjKz0AiY