Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

I really like a big oven. I don't mind a smaller second one. ( And yeah, i need two. Maybe even though I don't like real ranges its a legacy of the 'shove it in the range ' sort of cooking? Also lots of the food we cook its bitty stuff I suppose.

DH is the barbecuer. No gas considered! I'll be honest , i actually don't enjoy it a all. When we traditional roast large joints I really would rather put them in the oven. Familiarity? Control? Ease?

My main jostling for space problem is hob. Current oven has sort of six rings. Its almost enough. I'd quite like more flexibility there tbh. One of those grill top adapters rather than a pan, perhaps, for more space and thus more speed when trying to do lots of things.


Btw, not all the range ovens are huge, my second oven is 'normal sized' and as I say, the main oven is too small for my taste, too small for my roasting tin to go in the right way round certainly. I'd have struggled if I were trying to roast two birds this Christmas I think with everything else well timed, rather than juggled..

Roasting on a BBQ takes some getting used to but even a cheap gas hooded BBQ will have a temperature gauge on it.

You can't roast on a charcoal BBQ and you almost never see them over here. Gas works much better as it's more controllable

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Roasting on a BBQ takes some getting used to but even a cheap gas hooded BBQ will have a temperature gauge on it.

You can't roast on a charcoal BBQ and you almost never see them over here. Gas works much better as it's more controllable

Gen, can I suggest it might be less hassle for you, with short hair and no make up, to pop out to check a roast in heaving rain and gales like we have now, than me to, with long curls which frazzle in rain and make up which has to be considered.

Cooking and hosting is a balance, cooking and hosting when wearing make up and worrying a bout hair is another ball in the air . Then add weather.....

Tbh, I don't think. Would have liked to rely on a BBQ in the gales, not where we are, too close to hay/straw barns of ours and neighbours. Could have been a disaster in the gales.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

Gen, can I suggest it might be less hassle for you, with short hair and no make up, to pop out to check a roast in heaving rain and gales like we have now, than me to, with long curls which frazzle in rain and make up which has to be considered.

Cooking and hosting is a balance, cooking and hosting when wearing make up and worrying a bout hair is another ball in the air . Then add weather.....

Tbh, I don't think. Would have liked to rely on a BBQ in the gales, not where we are, too close to hay/straw barns of ours and neighbours. Could have been a disaster in the gales.

If only I still had short hair left up top!

Actually, when roasting on a BBQ I've found that the 'bung it in and leave well alone' method works best. You lose an awful lot of heat when opening the lid.

On reflection, perhaps there's a reason that Aussies use BBQs for roasting and Pommies don't.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

If only I still had short hair left up top!

Actually, when roasting on a BBQ I've found that the 'bung it in and leave well alone' method works best. You lose an awful lot of heat when opening the lid.

On reflection, perhaps there's a reason that Aussies use BBQs for roasting and Pommies don't.

I can see it would work on a protected terrace. But I live in an open valley and a the end of my garden is my neighbours supply of straw for winter. A nasty. gust of wind and.....whoooosh. Not only his straw, but my hay is at risk, and all his livestock in in this weather.

Disastrous. :eek:


Our BBQ is summer only. DH is planning one down by the cake too, but tbh, I don't intend trooping down there in winter even if he does

edit.....thinking about it, BBQ method would result it lots of roast beef at least in bad weather here, a bit of pork and lamb on a good day too.

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

Does that work out much more expensive than have bottles you don't drink from?

Well, it does on a unit by unit basis. But if you only use spirits for cooking then a bottle of spirits might last for four, five or more years (I don't use brandy a lot in cooking). It's a hassle to have it about the house quite frankly.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

Well, it does on a unit by unit basis. But if you only use spirits for cooking then a bottle of spirits might last for four, five or more years (I don't use brandy a lot in cooking). It's a hassle to have it about the house quite frankly.

Oh.
We've had some bottles for longer than that. DH still, I think, has a bottle of archers a girl brought o his room at university :rotfl:. We have rather too many bottles though. The whole of one of our huge dining room monstrosities is devoted to spirits


For people who don't drink that much its a little odd really. :rotfl:

Doozergirl

zagubov wrote: »

Got a 400+ mile drive south tomorrow. Any tips for a good cheap supermarket petrol station off the M6/M1 between say Coventry and London?;)

If you went M6/M5/M42/M40 instead, there's an Asda literally on the island at Junction 2 M5. Depends on your final destination in London and whether you prefer to use the M6 toll

PasturesNew

Years ago there was an oven fad where ovens had a rotisserie. It was an eye level, smaller, oven above the hobs. I've never seen one used for its intended purpose, but certainly they existed and acted as a "small oven" in their own right.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

That might just be your church .... maybe I've discovered a new posh alert.

Nah, it's not a posh alert. My mother was (before her stroke) a professional church organist. I've listened to her perform carol services at all of the most posh churches nearby because they pay the best.

Edit: She also worked at a crematorium as an organist for a while. Her favourite story is when one of her colleagues read the number wrong on the playlist, and a poor old woman went to the fire accompanied by "Ding Dong the witch is dead" from the wizard of Oz.

SingleSue

I miss my range cooker, I like to have oven space and that one had it in spades which was very handy for the buffets I used to cook and the mince pies I do every year.

Now I have a double oven normal size cooker but the main oven doesn't work. The top oven does but it is not possible to cook cakes or yorkshire puddings in it and a seperate halogen oven which is really quite amazing but small.

New years resolution - get the cooker sorted out!