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Hints and Tips of Things To Do On A Dreary Day

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    In a vaccuum @Uff.   The food is put in a plastic bag and all the spare air sucked out and selaed then cooked at about 60C.  Very good for making meat tender and juicy but then you just have to brown the outside briefly in some butter or oil to get a caramelised finish.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    I see thank you @Obelixx. Have you ever tried it?
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    doesn't it make food taste of plastic?
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Uff said:
    Oh well something else to look up. I haven't got a clue what sous vide means.
    If you ever watch the tv show Masterchef the water bath gets used quite a bit... :#
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    steephill said:
    Many years ago I went to get my car from the street where it was parked. I opened the door with the key, turned on the ignition and started the engine. Then I began to realise that there was something not quite right about the interior, stuff missing and other stuff in its place. I got out and checked the number plate - it was one number different from mine. I looked around the street and realised that mine was a few spaces away. Now this was an old Hillman Imp van and I had never seen another before. And here was its twin which probably hadn't been together since they were first sold years before.

    My friend and I both had Morris Marinas, so clearly both had incredible taste in cars.  Our keys would fit each others cars locks and start them.  Presumably British Leyland knew no self respecting car thief would want to be seen in one, so weren't concerned about security.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I've just about finished cutting out the bits I want from 9 years worth of GW.  From a full shelf of 27" wide bookcase I have a pile no more than 2" high.
  • We once had a lovely red Mini and a revoltingly lavender Nova (officially my car, though I fitted the Mini better).  The keys were interchangeable.  Someone had re-sprayed the Nova which is probably why it was very cheap, 2nd hand... but it was impossible to lose in a car park.  (Unless a thief had a Mini key, of course.)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited November 2022
    OH's parents had a mustard coloured Nova.  Ghastly, but it did mean I spotted them as they sailed by on the road below having missed yet another turning on their first visit to us in Belgium and could send OH chasing out to fetch them - 1991 so pre mobile phones.

    @raisingirl - no, it's not just any old plastic and the heat is low so no taste transfers.  It does give meltingly tender meat if used properly on game, poultry and the usual suspects.

    Still persisting down here and blowing a hooly too but I have used my time indoors well - morning at physio then lunch and a snoozle followed by sorting out my file of Xmas decs for two full day workshops - machine patch, handpatch, appliqué, embroidery, fabric folding.   Feeling organised and almost virtuous.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Glad you feel only virtually virtuous because if you felt completely virtuous, you would be prideful and therefore no longer completely virtuous @ Obelixx
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Exactly @B3
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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