What did we do before the beeps !!!!!

wicca

Native
Oct 19, 2008
1,065
34
South Coast
I confess...My grown Grandaughter when she visits aboard, refers to the 'ping' of the Microwave as Grandad's dinner bell...:D :D
 

wicca

Native
Oct 19, 2008
1,065
34
South Coast
I've tried Red, but the Fates rule otherwise. My late wife used to get positively nervous if I even went anywhere near the kitchen, she used to watch me like a Hawk. I tried to help once and put a fresh Chicken in the oven, everything thing was fine until there was an awful smell of burning plastic...Strange that the Butcher sticks a plastic bag up the Chooks stern tube with all the jubbly bits stowed in it...I was banished from the kitchen after that. Never had much luck with Chickens me...:p
 

British Red

M.A.B (Mad About Bushcraft)
Dec 30, 2005
26,887
2,140
Mercia
I'll get you cooking if you want to learn. Simple man food is so very easy. Any idiot can make a pasty.
 

wandering1

Nomad
Aug 21, 2014
348
2
Staffordshire
Cooking without a microwave is easy
Just mix it up slapp it in oven (preferably on the correct gas mark) and wait, which usually involves runnin. Back AMD.forth every 5 minutes to check it ain't burned
 

wicca

Native
Oct 19, 2008
1,065
34
South Coast
" Cooking isnt that hard really. " Problem with me Xylaria is food is just fuel to me..I can't get enthusiastic about it. Basically I'm a moron by foodie standards, I almost starved in France until I found a MacD's..All that stuff awash in wine and dodgy sauces they dish up and cheeses that should have health warnings attached..:p
I do try though occasionally..then I lose interest and open a Rat pack..:lmao:
 

xylaria

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
I don't really like cooking. Its a means to an ends. Its a way of getting good food cheap. I really hate processed food full of salt and sugar and screwy fats. I cook because it saves me a fortune and it is food I trust. My mum that lives on her own and used to cook now gets ready meals. I understand why people dont cook. But it really is a skill that protects health and protects against poverty.
 

wandering1

Nomad
Aug 21, 2014
348
2
Staffordshire
I was always rather fortunate. In that we never bought a microwave until I was in my late teens. And everything.was oven cooked so I learned pretty early on. The only.thin I haven't.mastered is stews and.casseroles (our mother's put me off). But pretty much anything.else. cakes. Jams pastries bread joints et I'm ok at
Besides its fun
 

Macaroon

A bemused & bewildered
Jan 5, 2013
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385
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SE Wales
I do not and never have had a microwave .. I just cook....

Me neither, even though I'm told the scrambled eggs are not to be equalled; I'll stick to listening to the wireless while I cook a proper meal and enjoy both the cooking and the eating of it :)
 

Jared

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Sep 8, 2005
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745
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Wales
Me neither, even though I'm told the scrambled eggs are not to be equalled; I'll stick to listening to the wireless while I cook a proper meal and enjoy both the cooking and the eating of it :)

Nothing beats slow cooked scrambled eggs imo, though might be due to the butter :)

[video=youtube;PUP7U5vTMM0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUP7U5vTMM0[/video]
 

British Red

M.A.B (Mad About Bushcraft)
Dec 30, 2005
26,887
2,140
Mercia
I, unlike wicca, like to cook. Even better when people ask for more :)

I'm going to get back into making proper suet puddings - mince and onion for preference. You can't buy proper peasant food any more.

Every time I make the Christmas Puddings, I vow to make more savoury puddings :)

finished by British Red, on Flickr
 

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