Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

I do like a burger and make them fairly often so much tastier than shop bought ones:)

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

I do sometimes make "fake" donner meat in the slow cooker.

I've done that in the past.... but not seen lamb mince marked at half price for a couple of years, so not done it since.... I keep an eye out, but I'm price-driven as much as I can be, ensuring I can "splash out" wantonly and deliberately at other times.

Talking of wanton purchases: I need a bag of choccies..... I'd have bought a bag earlier, but 4ldi opens at 8am and £land opens at 9am, which is a tad inconvenient if you're hitting 4ldi perchance to get a bargain... as you can't then use the money saved to buy choccies at £land

PasturesNew

Stoke wrote: »

The hot air is expelled from the rear...

That always worries me Because the sockets are at the rear and that'd heat up the plug/lead. I was panicking earlier in case the microwave was expelling moist air into the sockets

I also can't place any cooking item under a wall cupboard ... just another of my foibles

Stoke

PasturesNew wrote: »

That always worries me Because the sockets are at the rear and that'd heat up the plug/lead. I was panicking earlier in case the microwave was expelling moist air into the sockets

I also can't place any cooking item under a wall cupboard ... just another of my foibles

True but you don't have have to necessarily place the item directly in front of a socket. I don't. I run the cable slightly and it sits next to the coffee machine. The cable is obscured by kitchen'y stuff.

However, for what it's worth, from Quora:

Humid air is formed by the evaporation of water. During evaporation, most of the salts are left behind. So in humid air, the salt content is very low compared to salty water. Once evaporated, water and salt are in their molecule form and not in their ionic form as in the liquid state. Also for current to flow from one salt molecule suspended in the humid air to another, it has to travel through air which has a breakdown strength of 30 KV/mm. For these three reasons, I would say humid air is still a poor conductor of electricity.

PasturesNew

Stoke wrote: »

True but you don't have have to necessarily place the item directly in front of a socket.

That's about available space though. The bigger the kitchen/house, the more options and choices you have. There's just one spot where these things will go - and they share a socket. I also can't run the microwave and mini oven together as that scares me .... I can't be helped, I'm a worrier.

PasturesNew

I did a choccies run ... and bought two bags.

Now, I could say "but I'll go careful...." but we all know Rule 1 applies.

Rule 1: "If you have nice things in your house, they WILL be eaten far too quickly"

Stoke

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's about available space though. The bigger the kitchen/house, the more options and choices you have. There's just one spot where these things will go - and they share a socket. I also can't run the microwave and mini oven together as that scares me .... I can't be helped, I'm a worrier.

Would a waterproof multi socket help you? You can get them from home bargains and they're cheap. I think I got a 4 way for a fiver the last time I went.

Farway

Welcome Stoke, nice to have another bloke aboard, it can get a tad lonely when it's dress size nattering time:D

Big technology fail yesterday, I was trying out the camera in my 'phone while at Wisley, normally I use a camera, because I find it easy. When I got home I assume I touched the wrong thingy somewhere, no photos on the phone.:mad:
Good job it was not a wedding or something unique. Everyday is a school day as they say

Into L's this morning, on the mooch really, finished up buying exciting bleach and kitchen rolls. But one YS, not YS really, L's have changed reductions, no longer a percentage, seems fixed price, 70p or 20p, maybe others in the mix but didn't spot any

Vegans & veggies, look away now. YS pack of 4 black pudding slices. Today's food sorted

Lunch was a black pudding & brown sauce sandwich, went posh & used sourdough bread. Tasted better than the avocado smeared on sourdough I once had in a Vegan cafe

Dinner will be more black pudding, with mushroom omelette and frozen chips, and maybe a grilled tomato if I remember in time.
Stoke, I use an Actifry fro my chips, very handy but not sure I'd replace it if it broke

PasturesNew wrote: »

The Mudeford ferry does this.... well, ashes.
https://www.mudefordferry.co.uk/scattering-ashes/ - about £100

If you want a whole burial at sea, they do it off the Isle of Wight.
http://www.burialsatsea.co.uk/ - they also do ashes, but £795.

I found an ashes urn, complete with nameplate, when walking along the beach at Highcliffe:eek: Left it where it had washed up. I would expect a refund it it was bunged of the Mudeford ferry, it didn't get far did it?

PN, for the price of small prepaid parcel post I'll lob your ashes off South Parade pier on the ebb tide:D:money:

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

I found an ashes urn, complete with nameplate...

That's really sad

PasturesNew

As I had four oven bottom muffins to use up, dated today, I sliced them all and put two in the freezer.

I bought the reduced price tomatoes today so need to get on with those... so I used about 100g (nearly half the punnet) across two of the muffins. I've also boiled an egg and, in a bit, I'll slice that egg and shove it into one of the muffins, then wrap that in the fridge to cool "for later".

Of the second one, just containing tomatoes.... I just ate that for tea

Bag 1 of the choccies has nearly been scoffed.... (225grams)